Friday, August 29, 2014

NEW ZEALAND: 42 lb brown trout landed!





An other huge huge trout was caught in New Zealand. Angler Otwin Kandolf described the giant brown trout as the “submarine trout.”
Kandolf
caught the 20,5 kg - 45 lb and 1 oz. brown trout while fishing the Ohau B hydro canal. He told that he cast toward the fish after seeing it feeding on pellets. He landed the monster trout few minutes after.The fish measured just over 36,6 inches long

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

USA: yellow palomino trout





A strange fish; Mike G's 24 inch Palomino trout, caught in Lehigh County Pa, USA.

NEWS: discover shark with two heads





This news appeared on CNN tv and seems to be real. A fisherman discovers a two head bull shark. The fish was at the Michigan State University to be studied.
Here the video of this strange catch.




Tuesday, August 26, 2014

TURKEY: 2000 lb bluntnose sixgill shark





Along Turkey
southern Mediterranean
coast of the Mersin Province an huge bluntnose sixgill shark ( Hexanchus griseus ) was laned by a commercial fisherman.

It was said to be 16 feet - 5 metres in length and 2000lb - 900 kg in weight.

NORWAY: giant Atlantic cod of 82 lb





Angler David Cornfeldt Smashes landed an huge cod over the 80 lbs mark while fishing in Northern Norway.

According with the Norway Guide Fishing blog this monster cod was 37,4 kg or 82 lbs and was caught using a Savage Gear Herring Cutbait in the always effective Firetiger color!

www.norwayguidefishing.blogspot.de

Monday, August 25, 2014

PANAMA: snook of 56 pound






Panama angler Kike Simone landed this huge snook (robalo) of 56 lb - 25.35 kilo.

ITALY: giant wels catfish of 260 lb





An other huge wels catfish was landed on Po river in Northern Italy.

Angler David Otto from Germany caught this monster catfish of 99 inch or 253 centimetres and for a weight of 260 lb or 122,5 kilo.

The world record size catfish was released after the shot.


Sunday, August 24, 2014

USA: Oklahoma Record Largemouth Bass





On other largemouth bass state record for Oklahoma. Famous Cedar Lake in the state southeast has produced its second state record largemouth bass in less than 1 year. This new bass new record was caught on March 13 by angler Dale Miller and weighed 13 pound and 7 oz.

Miller caught the huge bass at around 11.45 in the morning with an Hawg Hunter Bait rod set up with an Abu Garcia Revo reel

Saturday, August 23, 2014

NEW ZEALAND: hot action on Enchanter





This huge 145 lb - 65 kilo grouper was caught off Three Kings islands in New Zealand aboard Enchanter Fishing Charters.

www.fishntrips.co.nz

USA: Florida huge 14 lb snakehead





At the beginning of this month in the state of Florida a biologist named Kelly Gestring landed a big 14 lb 3 oz bullseye snakehead during an electric-shocking expedition Northwest Broward.

Had the snakehead been landed with rod and reel, it would have beaten the IGFA (International Game Fish Association’s www.igfa.org) all-tackle record snakehead by over 1,5 lb.

Snakeheads, like some

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

AUSTRALIA: an other black marlin from the rocks






The "Tubes Rock" ledge at Jervis Bay on the NSW in Australia has produced an other back marlin.

This rocky place on the south coast has been the venue for some land based game fishing anglers in recent weeks and has produced lot of memorable action.Angler Bob Russo reports that last week, a black marlin of around 300 pound - 140 kg had been taken from the well known Tubes rock platform.An

VANUATU: giant trevally 130+ lb





This monster size giant trevally was caught in Vanuatu Island while spearfishing. It isn't not clear about the weight of this huge GT but surely 130 lb plus or more.

Not catch and release, for this wonderful fish.....

Monday, August 18, 2014

NORWAY: giant cod fishing off Sørøya





At "Nordic Sea Anglings" camp on Sørøya Island in Norway, the first guests arrived and spend the first week of March facing though conditions and very unpredictable weather. The biggest Atlantic cod caught during the first week was 60 pound - 28 kilos, but unfortunately the weather didn’ t allow the guests to spend much time on the best hot spots.

During the 2nd week of fishing, the weather

Sunday, August 17, 2014

NORWAY: 77 pound atlantic cod





Danish Angler Max, smashes through the magic 70 pound / 30 kilo mark landing this huge monster Atlantic Cod of 77 pound / 35 kilo.

He was fishing in Norway and using as bait a 32 cm Savage Gear Herring shad in Blue silver - fished on a cut-bait jig head. He was guided by guideservice Norway Guidefishing

www.norwayguidefishing.blogspot.dk

AUSTRALIA: 780 pound marlin record





In the town of Exmouth in Australia a large Blue Marlin of 780 lbs was laned.

The big marlin will draw a lot of attention during the annual "GAMEX Tournament" infact angler Mark McKay and the crew on the "Blue Horizon" managed to land this big blue, beating the old record of 726 lbs.

In the same Tournament, the boat "Grand Slam" brought in a 450 lbs. Blue Marlin, showing that some big

Friday, August 15, 2014

SCOTLAND: 67 pound ling fish boated





Angler James Isbister, boated a record ling fish (Molva molva) measuring 6 feet and 67 pounds or 30.35 kilos last February 2013. The huge ling was caught in the afternoon off the coast of Muckle Flugga island, located on the Shetland Archipelago of Scotland. The fish will undergo scrutiny from the official "British Record Fish Committee" to establish whether it's a new record for the

CAPE VERDE: hot blue marlin action





Here the last report from Captain Zak Conde on Amelia operanting in Capo Verde islands in the middle of Atlantic Ocean:

"five days ago on the way to Sao Vicente, Ronnie and Lino hat two on two (300 lbs and 500 lbs).We fished altogether ten days and we had 3 for3 at the end of our trip.We start fishing 4 days ago with angler Thomas Petersen and his friend Kent from Denmark.Day one, we left

ITALY: huge wels catfish of 7,7 feet





In Italy on river Po was landed a giant wels catfish. This huge fish was 2.33 metre long (7,7 feet). It was caught by Team Black Cat on February 2013.

It is one of the biggest wels catfishes ever caught in this period in Italy.The fish was released after the photo.

Thursday, August 14, 2014

IRELAND: skate of 182 pound landed




Anglers Rosco and Davy Craig had a great day out last week in glorious conditions, sunny, no wind. Using some frozen mackerels and standard rigs they had some great results on the sea while fishing dogfish sharks.

The hooked and landed a big skate.The fight was an endurance battle for both fish and fisherman but after 45 minutes it surfaced near the boat.

At this point it could be seen

MEXICO: monster 340 pound yellowfin tuna





According with Pelagic Facebook web page, another huge yellowfin tuna comes out of Mexico's Gordo Banks... this fish was exactly 370 pounds! Photo made by of Captain Jeff Gaebel.

http://www.facebook.com/PelagicGear?ref=stream

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

IGFA: hot catches world record of March 2013


Here the last IGFA hot catches world record of March 2013






Texas native Thomas Gibson has been traveling to Africa for years, where he has racked up several impressive records on large tarpon and jacks. However, on a recent tarpon trip with IGFA Representative Iain Nicolson, Gibson landed a Guinean barracuda (Sphyraena afra) that could potentially earn him the new All-Tackle record. While

Monday, August 11, 2014

GREENLAND huge greenland shark video





Greenland sharks are caught in bottom trawl along the Greenland shelf. This big one was caught last week. These contributed to a large scale study of Greenland sharks revealing basic biological parameters concerning feeding ecology in Greenland waters. See the video:



Sunday, August 10, 2014

SPAIN: giant 240 pound great amberjack





According with Facebook page of angler Dirk Wolthuis this monster great amberjack of 240 pound or 110 kilos was landed at La Palma Island in Canay Archipelago (Spain). The huge fish was 85 inch - 2.18 metre long and was landed only after 1.5 hour of fight.

http://www.facebook.com/rederijwolthuis

Saturday, August 9, 2014

CANADA: Ontario biggest muskie ever





Angler Dryden resident Travis Tourond hefts a monster big fat muskie caught while fishing in the southern end of Wabigoon Lake in Ontario, Canada.

The muskie measured 57 inches in length and 26 inches in girth; common calculators estimate the fish’s weight at just over 48 lbs - 21.74 kg.

A very quick battle; in fact Tourond said the battle was lasting about 45 seconds as the fish swam

SPAIN: 35 plus pound northern pike





This fat northern pike was caught by joung angler Adrian Hidalgo Diez near Valladolid in in Spain. The estimated weight was around 35 lb or more. It was caught casting a S.killer bleeding albino of Lunkermania. It not clear if the big pike was released after the photo or not.

http://www.facebook.com/adrian.hidalgodiez

Thursday, August 7, 2014

IRELAND: huge 31 pound pike





A new report from the Shercock area of the County of Cavan in Ireland.

A giant pike caught in the past week in one of the small loughs there. Pike angler Brian McDonnell from Lucan in the county of. Dublin and a member of "Dublin Trout Anglers" has been catching some nice pike this year on several venues in Co. Cavan.

Using ledgered half mackerel, Brian hooked and landed a fish of a

Monday, August 4, 2014

USA: huge blue catfish of 77 and 80 lb




Angler Jeff Mills
was fishing with "Nightstalker Guide Service" when he hooked and landed this monster 77 pounder blue catfish.




A month later, March 2, angler Eric McGrady March caught a bigs 80 pounder.

Now is the time for trophy blue cats on the James River!

http://www.facebook.com

USA: 70 pound striped bass from Alabama





Angler James Bramlett, landed a giant 70 pound - 31.70 kilo striped bass from the Black Warrior River near the Gorgas Steam Plant.

After a battle that lasted more than 25 minutes, he landed the record fish and immediately called his wife.Bramlett used a Mustad 6.0 hook, Ambassador 7000 as reel, an Ugly Stik rod with Berkley Big Game 30 pound test line to catch the giant striped bass.The

Sunday, August 3, 2014

THAILAND: huge 210 lb arapaima on lure








Here the last report from top Thailand fishing guide Jean Francois Helias: "Two days ago (Feb. 27). on our
second trip to a new destination we are now guiding at, we caught an impressive
95.00 kg / 210 pounds on lure. The very reddish mega fish failed for a Yo-zuri
lure (I wish to not giving away the model details), courtesy of Yo-zuri American
big boss George Large.



Saturday, August 2, 2014

VIDEO: World's Biggest Saltwater Fishes





A Youtube video of the World's Biggest Saltwater Fishes



RODRIGUES ISLAND: 330 lb marlin on fly





Bob, who is used to fish in Mauritius, came to test Rodrigues as a destination on a single day trip with a friend from a fishing centre based in Switzerland. These specialists in “fly fishing” are successful with a black marlin of 330 lb - 150 kg. Thierry is as much at his ease on the fighting chair as in his single seater craft. Doggies between 15 kg and 18 kg on bait on jigging tackle,

GALAPAGOS: 175 lb huge giant trevally




According to the Facebook web page of Carlos Carvalho, this monster giant trevally was caught from the rocks. I was 175 lb or 79 kilos!! Probably the biggest gint trevally ever caught with rod and reel.




http://www.facebook.com/Tsutsuma