The world’s largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists from the Southeast Asian nation and the United States. The stingray, captured on June 13, measured almost 13 feet from snout to tail and weighed slightly under 660 pounds, according to a statement Monday...
Thomas Russell, of Albion, caught a new state record smallmouth bass Wednesday on Cayuga Lake. The super smallie weighed 8 pounds, 5.8 ounces, beating the previous state record smallmouth by almost two ounces. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has yet to officially announce the record, but we spoke to Russell earlier today...
The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries recently certified the first state record Pompano Dolphinfish (Coryphaena equiselis), and it may break the world record. Charles Kenneth Noonan of Sumter, S.C. caught the 11-pound, 5.4-ounce fish at an abandoned raft, about 42 miles off Ocean Isle Beach on June 8. Noonan said he is applying to the...
A bow fisherman from Bismarck, North Dakota, has set a new bow/spear state record. Mitch Estabrook arrowed a 60-pound, 8-ounce buffalo from Heart Butte Reservoir on May 16. It broke the previous record by 3 pounds, taken at Heart Butte Reservoir in 2017 by Derek Larson of Mandan. Buffalo are a native fish sometimes confused...
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has confirmed Logan Kurhmann of Essex is the new state record holder for common carp (Cyprinus carpio carpio) in the state’s Chesapeake Division. Kurhmann, 24, caught the 49-pound carp June 4 while bass fishing in the Susquehanna Flats area of the Chesapeake Bay. Kuhrmann was using a spinning tackle with a plastic worm and...
The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries recently certified the first state record Graysby Grouper (Cephalopholis cruentata). George O. Dale of Wilmington caught the 2-pound, 3-ounce fish about 40 miles outside of Masonboro Inlet in about 100 feet deep water on May 31. The fish measured 15 inches total length (from the tip of the snout...
The S.C. Department of Natural Resources recently certified a state-record walleye caught in the Upstate over Memorial Day weekend. Chris Edlund, of Spartanburg, and Dave Starzek, of Greer, caught a 10-pound, 1.44-ounce walleye from Lake Tugalo in Oconee County on May 29. Edlund pulled the fish in and is the angler on record, while Starzek...
While fishing with cut bait recently in Berrien County, Michigan, an angler from Hobart, Indiana, caught a new state-record fish: a flathead catfish weighing in at 53.35 pounds and measuring 48 inches! Lloyd Tanner was fishing the St. Joe River, a tributary of Lake Michigan, in the early-morning hours of Sunday, May 29, when he...
Forpsnaniak’s Asp and 100th IGFA World Record IGFA Representative Jan Forszpaniak of Florida, US, was fishing the Po River, Italy, with IGFA Representative Paolo Pacchiarini when he landed this 67-centimeter asp to set the IGFA All-Tackle Length Fly World Record for the species. Jan battled the fish for 10 minutes before bringing the record asp to...
On his second cast of the day into the Cowpasture River, Josh Dolin thought he had caught a trophy brown trout. “That fish hit and it was just screaming drag,” Dolin said. But when he landed the fish, it turned out that instead he had broken the state record for a different species. “I fought...