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Lake Michigan kicks out Potential World Record Brown Trout!!

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Eric Haataja and Browntosaurus


Talk about super-sized! Check out his potential new All-Tackle Length Record for brown trout! This massive kpyed-up buck measured 38.2 inches (the current length record is 25.2 inches)and was caught in Milwaukee Harbour on Lake Michigan by Eric Haataja, who was casting a skirted jig.

The fight lasted 10 minutes…after which, Haataja snapped a couple quick pix and then released big daddy to go about his business. If approved, this will be the new length world record for browns. The length record is a fairly new catch and release category so that anglers can get recognized for trophy catches without killing the fish. Read more at IGFA.org

432.4-pound Yellowfin Tuna a New World Record?

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Could this be the next world record for yellowfin?

This 90×62-inch yellowfin tuna was taken taken by Ron Tegland out of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and weighed nearly 30 pounds more than the current world record! We’ll have to see what develops with this story in the near future. Regardless of the outcome, that is one massive tuna!!

Read the whole story at my former longtime employers and good friends: WESTERN OUTDOOR NEWS

Top 3 Giant Halibut of 2011

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Holy beer batter Batman, 2011 may just go down as the “Year of the Halibut!” There were three absolute monsters taken last fall that are more in the “blimp hangar door” class than barn doors.

First up is this one above from Norway which weighed an almost hard to fathom 539 pounds! Here’s the link

This monster came from the waters off Gustavus, Alaska (near Glacier Bay) and was 95 inches long and weighed 482.5 pounds! Read more at Bloody Decks


Then there was the one from Iceland that tipped the scales to 485 pounds! See more at Outdoor Life

Pending World Record fly-caught Alligator Gar

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IGFA Photo


Though alligator gar get to be the size of submarines, this 62-pound, 8 ouncer looks to be the largest ever taken on 16-pound test tippet and a fly rod and is a pending IGFA line class record.

Martin Arostegui of Coral Gables, FL, who has compiled more world records than anyone else in IGFA history, caught the big fish on Texas’ Lake Livingston on August 22, 2011 while working with Captain Kirk Kirkland.

Thirty minutes after the fish struck his custom fly, Arostegui was able to land, weigh and release the fish alive. With this catch, he kicked the living stuffing out of the current IGFA record, which is 24 pounds, 13 ounces!

Pyramid Lake produces pending line class world record cutthroat trout

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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.