
This giant stringray has smashed the world record for the biggest freshwater fish ever caught using a rod.
British angler Ian Welch tussled with the monster ray for 90 minutes to secure it and then 13 men had to be recruited to heave it out of the water.
The massive 55 stone (or 771 lbs) stingray is almost five [...]

The marine game fish record for cobia, standing for five years, was recently claimed by an angler participating in the 24th annual edition of the Hilton Head Island Food & Beverage Fishing Tournament.
Robby Maroudas of Hilton Head Island was fishing just offshore on the Betsy Ross artificial reef in 90 feet of water when he [...]
September 15, 2009 | Posted in
New Post,
News,
Records |
Read More »

As the title says, if you as a Tacklewise Fishing Protection Policy holder catch a verified British fresh water record fish from a lake or gravel pit in the UK we will pay up to £1,000 in PRIZE MONEY

This massive halibut measured 8ft 1in in length, 6ft 4in around the middle and weighed in at 443lb, 24lb more than the previous record for a line-caught halibut. That’s a whole lot of fish and chips.

This July 29, 2009 photo released by the Idaho Department of Fish and Wildlife shows Michelle V. Larsen-Williams, of Pingree, Idaho holding the record rainbow trout she caught on the Snake River upstream of the American Falls Reservoir, in eastern Idaho. The fish was 34 1/4-inches long, weighed slightly more than 20 pounds and had [...]

Benson the carp was found floating in Bluebell Lakes near Peterborough, England. Benson was famous as England’s biggest fish and had been caught at least 60 times. Fishermen came from many countries to try to catch this fish and have their picture taken with it.
Estimated to be about 25 years old, Benson the carp was [...]

Jessica Wanstall, an 11 year old girl, landed a 194 pound catfish in the Ebro River in Spain. The fish is longer then she is tall and outweighs her by about 100 pounds.
It took Jessica 20 minutes to land the huge fish. She was fishing with her father and it is unclear if he helped [...]

from Japan: the world-record largemouth bass may have been bested.
According to some Internet chatter from California-based website calfishing.com, this bass, caught by angler Manabu Kurita, has already been certified as weighing 22 pounds, 5 ounces.
Certified weight: 10.12 kg. = 22 lb. 5 oz
Length: 29.4 inches
Location caught: Lake Biwa, Japan
The fish was supposedly taken from Lake [...]

” World Record Fish are categorized alphabetically and in lbs and oz “
Type of Fish
Weight of Fish
Fish Caught By
Location
Date
African Pompano
50lbs 8oz
Tom Sargent
Daytona [...]
July 4, 2009 | Posted in
New Post,
Records |
Read More »

” World Record Fish are categorized alphabetically and in lbs and oz ”
Type of Fish
Weight of Fish
Fish Caught By
Location
Date
Alligator Gar
279lbs
Bill Valverde
Rio Grande, TX
December 2, 1951
American Shad
11lbs 4oz
Bob Thibodo
Conn. River, S. Hadley, MA
May 19, 1986
Apache Trout
5lbs 3oz
John Baldwin
White Mountain, AZ
May 29, 1991
Arctic Char
32lbs 9oz
Jeffery Ward
Tree River, Canada
July 30, 1981
Arctic Grayling
5lbs 15oz
Jeanne P. [...]
July 3, 2009 | Posted in
New Post,
Records |
Read More »