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AUSTRALIA: top fly fishing video

A wonderful fly fishing video that won the "Best Movie" at fishing video awards at the "Annual Drake Fly Fishing Video Awards" in the USA. The movie is produced by Gin-Clear Media. Here a video preview.

USA: Maryland blue catfish of 84.28 pound

Angler Ed Jones was fishing with his son Matt on the Potomac River with Captain Josh Fitchett. The trio was anchored 4 miles south of Fort Washington using cut gizzard shad when the monster hit. Ed Jones took the rod and landed a monster state record blue catfish of 84,28 pounds.


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PANAMA: huge dolphin on 2 lb line

According to Tropic Star Lodge, Sherrell Carter was fish Tropic Star Lodge in Panama when she landed a 44,9 pound dolphin on 2 pound line (1 kg). That catch is big enough for the new I.G.F.A. line class record.

USA: 266 hammerhead at White Marlin Open tournament

Angler Scott Cusick set a new Maryland State record by reeling in a scalloped hammerhead shark weighing 266 pounds and 8 ounces (120.50 kg) at the "White Marlin Open tournament".

AUSTRALIA: Norht Queensland shark attack video

In this recent video a shark attacks a nice size spanish makerel near the boat.

USA: 53 inch musky from Minnesota

Angler and TV star Jason Mitchell filmed a "musky" fishing episode for his television show; Jason Mitchell Outdoors recently head quartering out of the Chase on the Lake Walker, Minnesota. Mitchell fished with musky guide Jeff Andersen of "Leisure Outdoor Adventures". The anglers caught seven muskies during the three days of filming with the largest stretching the tape at a great 53 inches.

USA: Record oilfish from Missisipi Canyon

During a sunny fishing day a group of anglers aboard the 33 foot Contender "Salty Duck" dropped a bait into over 1500 feet - 450 metres of water in the Mississippi Canyon, they had swordfish on their minds. They caught a strange deep predator, a long brown oilfish that “this strange fish was extremely aggressive when it hit the surface,” says angler Kini Bowers, “glowing silver and electric

TURKEY: huge 1000 lb bluntnose sixgill shark

On Yeniköy, Karacabey in the state of Turkey a giant Bluntnose sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus) was landed. It was said to be 4 metres in length, and 500 kg - 1000 pound in weight. It was caught in the Sea of Marmara.

USA: video of an impressive shark feeding

This video shows an impressive shark feeding frenzy off New Jersy Shores. This video was captured by angler Tom Lynch off the coast of Island Beach State Park.

USA: 55 pound albino bighead carp

Sarah Tipton Tipton stuck a 55 pound albino bighead carp while bow fishing with guide Marlyn Wiebelhaus.


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VIDEO: a great white shark and a seal

An huge great white shark (Carcharodon Carcharias) feeds on a seal off the south tip of Monomoy Island, Chatham, MA (USA)

CYPRUS: huge rare sandtigershark landed

On 20 July 2012 in Cyprus Island a big and rare Smalltooth sandtiger shark (Odontaspis ferox) was landed. It was said to be 3.5 metres in length and 300 kg (630 pound) in weight.This shark got entangled in the net of a fisherman from Liopetri on the Famagusta District.

NORWAY: 75 pound atlantic cod

An other huge cod was caught in North Norway. This time is a monster fish of 75 pound - 34 kilos caught in Storekorsnes.


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CANARY ISLANDS: blue marlin fishing

Angler Thomas Eldor Petersen from Kinetic is an experienced blue water angler who has caught a good number of billfish and large tunas around the globe. During this last trip to La Gomera (Canary Islands - Spain) he also caught and released a 550 lbs blue marlin. This marlin from La Gomera was his first from this location, but far from being his first blue marlin. A new interesting video showing

USA: Alabama state record for black grouper

This huge 106 pound, 3,2 ounce black grouper is the new Alabama record, but it also might be a new International Game Fish Association (www.igfa.org) line class record too. Angler Mark Possien was fishing out of Orange Beach in Alabama on the boat "Sea Mixe"r when he caught the monster black grouper fishing over some wrecks. The biog grouper crushes the previous best record, which was set at

CANADA: monster chinook salmon landed

At "Good Hope Cannery Resort" at Rivers Inlet in British Columbia (Canada) sport fishing record chinook was caught that weighed about 83.3 pounds.Top fishing guide Tyler Mills got first time angler Deborah Whitman-Perry into the catch of a lifetime and it was the first chinook she's ever caught.
Whitman-Perry was fishing when the rod was slammed, and after a one hour fight the huge fish was

HAWAII: 1022 pound blue marlin

An huge 1022 pound blue marlin was caught during the annual Hawaii Fisherwoman Big Island Marlin Tournament. Angler Molly Palmer, shown here, finally had to give up on this blue marlin, which would have, if she’d not asked for assistance, set a new world record in the second week in August. Back at the docks in Kona, the crew of the "Anxious", were honest that the fish was not caught by one

USA: monster 102 pound blue catfish

Angler Rob Stanley of Olathe caught the 102-pound blue catfish in Kansas‘s Missouri River, breaking the previous state record of 94 pounds. The record catfish is currently pending. Stanley has caught and released more than a few big cats in his day, and he was ready to release the fish right away.

Stanley’s scale only went to 100 pounds, and when he hoisted the fish on it, the scale read “

IGFA Hot Catches August 2012

Two species – the pinima peacock and the unusual butterfly kingfish – are being considered for first-time IGFA World Records in this month’s Hot Catches report. Standing records for calico bass, roosterfish, white seabass and more are also being challenged as anglers from Australia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Finland, Japan, Mexico, and Alabama, California, and Wyoming in the United States weigh in

VIDEO: a very long oarfish

Here the video of the Longest Fish in the World caught on tape.

VIDEO: Hammerhead shark attacks a tarpon

Hammerhead shark attacks a tarpon at long key bridge in Florida.

USA: 948 pound huge tiger shark

On the past year at the "Outcast Mega Shark Tournament", the event’s record for the largest shark weighed in was broken; not once, but twice.
An huge 874,8 pound tiger shark and a 787,6 pound tiger shark both broke a tournament record from late 2005 of "only" 576,6 pounds.
Following a three hour fight, angler Kennedy fishing aboard the 36-foot boat "Wendy Seas" hauled in a 948,6 pound

AUSTRALIA: mistery fish landed

Angler Simon Falkiner landed this 41,35 kg (91 pound 2 oz) mystery species while fishing off Portland, Australia . Falkiner needed more than 20 minutes to boat this toothy critter fish after it nailed the CD Magnum Rapala plug he was trolling. Accordi to IGFA it is butterfly kingfish, butterfly tuna, or bigscale mackerel. This strange specie has many common names but its one scientific name is

USA: the biggest shark ever caught on rod and reel

In late 1986 angler Frank Mundus and Donnie Braddick caught a 3.427-pound (1552 kilos) great white shark about 30 miles off Montauk, and only 20 miles from Block Island, which still holds the record for the largest shark ever caught by rod and reel. The capture of the shark was very controversial at the time with some saying he had killed the whale on which the shark was feeding when caught

TEXAS: Monster Tiger Shark Tag and Release

A monster Tiger Shark of more than 1000 pound Tag and Release from the shore in Texas

ALASKA: huge 380 pound halibut

Angler John Schaap of Susanville landed this monster 88 inch, 380 pound halibut near Glacier Bay in Alaska while fishing with Captain Andy Martin out of Alaskan Anglers Inn in Gustavus. The bait was a whole pink salmon rigged on a 16/0 circle hook. The battle lasted 90 minutes / an hour of which was just fighting the beast off the bottom. Then, it took more than half an hour to bring her up.

IGFA: Rejects Record Ply 64 pounds, 8 ounces striped Bass

The possible 64 pounds, 8 ounces striped bass Arkansas and world record was rejected by IGFA (international Game Fish Association). This huge fish also was entered into the Mustad Hooks “Hook-a-Million” contest. If the IGFA certified his record, he would win $1 million. But there was a big problem, he was using an umbrella-rig that has more popularly become known as an "Alabama rig".



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IGFA: "Hot Catches" news

The I.G.F.A has recently released a new list of potential world record catches. It must be noted that these catches are currently undergoing the review process, and by now are not official world records. Here a couple:



Angler Fumiya Okuyama (Japan) caught this scalpel sawtail while fishing off of Japan’s Miyake Island. It weighed 5 lbs, 8 oz, measured in at 46 cm, and was caught using krill as

PANAMA: fishing video tuna frenzy

A great fishing video tuna frenzy on the Pacific side of Panama

USA: South Dakota monster blue catfish

When angler Terry Matheny launched his boat at the Sioux City boat launch and headed up the "Big Sioux" with his fishing friends, neither realized this was going to be the fishing trip of a lifetime. Some hours later, after fishing two different holes somewhere around the west entrance of "Stone Park", it is rumored, Matheny had put a 71 pound blue catfish into the boat and Lemon had boated a

IRELAND: Carrigaholt Sea Angling Centre fishing report

Carrigaholt Sea Angling Centre fishing report from Luke Aston: "Same group in fishing with me all last week and they had a good range of fish but the highlight had to be last Thursday when we hooked into another Six-Gilled Shark and then followed up with a specimen "John Dory".On Thursday with good conditions we headed for a mark that has produced many good fish for me including Conger, Skate

UK: biggest wes catfish ever caught

Angler Chef James Jones landed up a new record by catching the biggest freshwater fish ever in the U.K. (United Kingdom) The young boy who at 150 pound (68,6 kg) is just a few kilos heavier than the 144 pound (65,3 kg) beast he netted, took two hours to reel in the huge wels catfish at "Oak Lakes Fishery" in Essex. Jones, who stands 5ft 6ins, pulled the record-breaking fish from the water to

FRANCE: Huge carp of 54 pound

Dave Lane (from U.K.) took his annual trip across the channel with some friends and decided to hit up an old favorite, "Sky Lakes" in France. After a quick scouting trip, he had an incredible night the first day, sight casting to carp and landing on huge 54 pounder (24.46 kg). After his fishing week, Lane had 32 carp on the board and 7 weighing more than 45 pounds, including this fatty fish.
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