Time to bust out the hot oil and have a good ol’ fashioned fish fry! Tony Milam just caught a what soon should be recognized as the Virginia state record, 109-pound blue catfish in Buggs Island Lake.
The 53-inch beast featured a 41-inch girth was hooked near the confluence of the Dan and Roanoke rivers and tops the current state record blue by a whopping 17 pounds. No word on what Milam caught the fish on but something like a live German Sheppard or a side of beef wouldn’t be out of the question!
Official state certification is estimated to be completed sometime next week.
IGFA: 26-lb. landlocked Atlantic Salmon’s a new World Record
If landlocked sockeye got this big, you'd never land one!
On March 14, the International Game Fish Association announced that that the 26-pound, 12-ounce landlocked Atlantic Salmon caught last fall by Tom Aufiero of Lafayette, IN in Michigan’s Torch Lake catch is the new IGFA All-Tackle world record for the species.
Aufiero caught the fish on a small shrimp-patterned fly fished on 6-pound tippet with guide guide, Matt Supinski, owner of the Gray Drake Lodge.
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Pyramid Lake produces pending line class world record cutthroat trout
Robin's gotta get get some bonus points for the hat!
The fact that you can be just one cast away from glory on any given day is one of the things that makes fishing so damn cool. Just ask Robin J. Wood Sr. of Modesto, CA, who was fishing Pyramid Lake, Nevada on February 5, 2011 when he hooked into this beast of a lahontan cutthroat trout…which at 17 pounds, 4 ounces, is a pending IGFA 20-pound test line class world record.
The huge cutty bit a Blue Fox spoon and took 15 minutes to land…which is saying something, considering these fish aren’t the world’s greatest scrappers. Assuming all the paperwork goes through okay, Wood’s fish will easily best the current IGFA 20-pound record of 11 pounds, 6 ounces.
Talk about kicking off the career in style…His first steelhead: A 25-pounder!
Quit while you're ahead, brother! It's gonna be tough to top this one!
Would you believe that this 25.9-pound, 40 1/4x 26-inch steelhead was the first one ever for Mick here? He caught the jumbo hatchery beast while side-drifting Pautzke’s cured eggs in Northwestern Washington with our pal guide Bill “Swanny” Swann.
That’s the good news.
The bad news is it’s probably time for Mick to take up golf…table tennis…antiquing…cubist painting…French cooking…whatever. Because, when you start your steelhead fishing career off with a fish like that, there’s really nowhere to go but down…
A good start to 2011: A 20-pound steelhead!
Klar (left) and Moore with a little New Year's Magic!
Klar, via “boat phone,” said that they hooked the beast at the top of Jed Smith Park. “It was an epic fight,” say Klar. The fish jumped several times and just tore holes in the water.” You can tell what Klar was talking about when he called the fish “flawless.”
Moore hooked the big daddy on a peach Fish Pill, some orange yarn and a small cluster of eggs. Nice work!
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