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IGFA: 26-lb. landlocked Atlantic Salmon’s a new World Record

March 17, 2011 By JD 1 Comment

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.

For more details, click HERE

Filed Under: Trophy Room Tagged With: all tackle world record, atlantic salmon, igfa, landlocked salmon, michigan

Pyramid Lake produces pending line class world record cutthroat trout

March 15, 2011 By JD 2 Comments

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.

Filed Under: Trophy Room Tagged With: igfa, lahontan cutthroat trout, pyramid Lake, world record

Pending World Record Bull Trout from the Flathead River

December 21, 2010 By JD 5 Comments

Mmmm...cork...it's what's for dinner! (IGFA Photo)

Bo Nelson of Oro Valley, AZ was working an egg pattern on British Columbia’s Flathead River with guide Kim Sedrovic, when this tank of a bull trout came calling. The fish took 10 minutes to land and, upon being weighed, pulled the needle down to 14 pounds, which just may qualify it for a 12-pound tippet class world record.

Nelson’s catch bested the current 12-pound tippet record — a 12-pound bull that came from Montana’s Kootenai River back in 2003 — and is now being reviewed by the International Game Fish Association for consideration as a world record.

Filed Under: Trophy Room Tagged With: british columbia, bull trout, dolly varden, igfa, world record

Going BIG with topwater: A pending IGFA World Record Jack Crevalle

December 4, 2010 By JD 10 Comments

Smile, dude...topwater is fun! (IGFA Photo)

You know me…I’m a huge fan of throwing topwater for anything that swims…but I’ve never come close to having my plug sucked down by anything like this pending all-tackle IGFA world record jack crevalle!

The 66-pound, 2 ouncer smashed a Willamson Jet Popper tossed by Carlos Alberto Leal Simoes, of Luanda, who was fishing Barra Do Dande, near Angola, Africa with guide Marcio de Oliveira Inocencio. The beast took 15 minutes to subdue and weighed nearly 8 pounds more than the current IGFA record, a fish that was also caught in Africa 10 years back.

Damn, I want some!

Filed Under: Trophy Room Tagged With: africa, igfa, jack crevalle, topwater popper, world record

A 30-pound laker on 2-pound tippet!

October 26, 2010 By JD 1 Comment

IGFA Photo


While I’ve never quite understood the fascination with fighting monster fish on super light line (especially for the sake of the fish’s health), I must say that a 30-pound, 8-ounce lake trout caught on 2-pound tippet is a pretty impressive feat.

Frank Bluch of Corio Victoria, Australia pulled off the feat on August 7, while fishing Great Bear Lake, in Canada’s NW Territories with guide Captain Mike Harrison. The monster mack munched a white streamer and was weighed and released. If approved, will obliterate the current IGFA 2-pound tippet record, a 13-pound, 8-ounce fish from Canada’s Wellesley Lake.

Filed Under: Trophy Room Tagged With: Great Bear Lake, igfa, lake trout, mackinaw, world record

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