On March 6, 2014, Orlando-based fishing guide Ward Michaels caught a 59 1/2-pound Pacific black snook in Puerto Quepos in Costa Rica. This week, the IGFA certified that catch as the new all-tackle world record. The previous record for Pacific snook was 57 pounds 12 ounces and was set in 1991 in Costa Rica. Michaels […]
Costa Rica, fish, Fishing, IGFA, Pacific Snook, Record, Snook, World Record
Earlier this month, the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries certified angler Toby Grantham’s 46-pound African pompano (Alectis ciliaris) as a new state record. Grantham caught the fish on May 11, 2014 while fishing off of North Carolina’s Atlantic Beach. Grantham’s fish bested the previous record of 40 pounds, 10 ounces by 5 pounds and […]
African Pompano, fish, Fishing, North Carolina, Record, scamp
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has certified one new cobia (Rachycentron canadum) and certified one new wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri) state records for fish taken this past June. On June 28, Jon Henry of Sunrise, Florida caught two cobia that tied for the record. Henry and friends were heading south from the Ocean City inlet […]
77-year-old Alaska angler Jack McGuire was fishing with with Captain Rye Phillips this past week, when he hooked into a 482-pound halibut. That fish surpassed the current IGFA record set in 1996 of 459 pounds by 23 pounds. But, McGuire’s fish won’t be certified by IGFA as a record, because thirty minutes into the fight, […]
Georgia officials have announced that Savannah angler Brendin Page’s 205-pound, 8-ounce swordfish has been confirmed as the largest swordfish taken from Georgia waters. Page took the fish on May 31, 2014, after a 90-minute fight. The catch was certified by Charles Russo of Russo’s Fresher Seafoods in Savannah. Page’s swordfish eclipsed the previous record held […]
Virginia angler Howard Webb landed a 645-pound, 98 1/2-inch bluefin tuna yesterday, a fish that bests Bo Haycox’s 2007 573-pound state record by 72 pounds, but Webb’s fish won’t count in the record books. Webb took his fish from waters off the Virginia/North Carolina border. Recreational season for large medium/giant “trophy” bluefin larger than 73 […]
Nineteen-year-old Neil Smith may have just landed in the Louisiana state record books with a possible number 6-ranked cobia. This past Wednesday, Smith was fishing about 70 miles southwest of Cypremort Point when a solid 100-pound-plus cobia nailed his pink curly-tail jig at about 50 feet down. Smith took his fish to Dago’s certified scales […]
Brandon Bosarge of Pascagoula, Mississippi, brought the third largest cobia ever taken in Mississippi to the scales of the Gulf Coast Cobia Classic–a month-long cobia tournament run out of Pascagoula. The fish, which Bosarge caught in Louisiana waters but weighed in in Mississippi, is the first 100-pound plus cobia weighted in Mississippi in 18 years. […]
The Game Fishing Association of Australia has certified that eight-year-old Jet Edwards of Cairns has set a new national record for the biggest trevally caught by a child age 11 or younger. Jet hooked his 14.8 kg (32.628 lbs) trevally near Innisfail, south of Cairns, and fought the fish for about 45 minutes before bringing […]