Category: Records
More Evidence for Goldfish Baits
Ever hear of “alternate methods” fish records? Me neither, until now: Missouri’s 20-year-old Dylan Gilmore just set the new “alternate methods” largie record with a 9-02 caught on a…trotline. Yep. A largie was fooled by a dang catfish rig – wait: we now know what the Missouri Rig will be! – which you would’ve known [...]
IGFA To Make $1 Mil Ruling on AL Rigs
Here’s a good story. Involves a bass fisherman, Bull Shoals Lake (MO), official fish record-keepers the International Game Fish Association, the Missouri DNR, $100,000 and $1 million. Excerpts from here and here: > Rodney Ply of Diamond City has lived on and fished Bull Shoals Lake his entire life. His once-in-a lifetime catch came earlier [...]
Is It Worth Catching a Record Fish Anymore?
Used to be said that it’d be worth a million dollars to catch the next world record largemouth. Don’t know if that was ever true, but even if it is now – which I doubt – would the baggage of a record catch be worth it? Two recent things made that thought pop up in [...]
Science: Going ‘CSI’ on State Records?
I’m guessing it’s not just me, but it sure seems like a lot of state record bass have been falling the past 6 months; largemouth, smallmouth and spots. Two in Oklahoma alone. I was reading an article this weekend which mentioned one of the big advances in fishery science, the ability to analyze the DNA of a particular [...]
Should Record Catchers Get Polygraph?
Bear with me here, quick striper story first. Have you ever heard the story of the guy who caught the world record striped bass? Talking the one before the new record caught last year. Guy caught it in a storm off the NJ coast with one witness – and pretty much everyone else disbelieved him. [...]
WTH Is This Fish – Worth 10 Grand?!
I don’t know, man. If I pull this outta the water, I think the first thing I’m touching it with is a net – the handle. Give it a couple sharp whacks on the top of the skull, then take a closer look. Lone Star Outdoor News had the story, here are the highlights: > [...]
What? How Stripers Got In Bull Shoals
News just out of a new Missoura state record striper caught out of Bull Shoals. Check the pic – looks like a limit of NJ smallies in that belly. Or maybe a trolling motor bat’ry. Ever wonder about the sometimes questionable logic used for stocking stripers or wipers in fisheries? Then you’ll enjoy this. An [...]
Big Deal: New World’s Largest Lure
Yesterday the (new) world’s largest fishing lure was unveiled at the Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort in Destin, FL. Specs: 10′ 10″ long, 2-foot trebles, more than 355 pounds. And it’s a topwater – kinda looks like an old Boy Howdy. A guy named Mark Davis (not the pro fisherman) and nine other folks took [...]
Frabiller Catches 2,600 Fish in 24 Hrs
The Guinness world record for the number of fish caught in a 24-hour period was 2,143 fish. That’s 89.3 fish per hour, or 1.5 fish a minute. Impressive, but note the word “was.” A few days ago, Milwaukee’s Jeff Kolodzinski broke that record – which was his own that he set last year. This time [...]
Coolest Launch Ramp Sign Ever
What were you doing on July 9? On the morning of July 9, 1955, David Hayes of Leitchfield, Ky. began trolling in the Phillips Bend area of Dale Hollow Lake. Just as he cleared the point near what’s now Dale Hollow Lake State Resort Park, his rod bent like he snagged a piano. But…not a [...]
Check Out This Huge Redear!
This enormous redear sunfish was recently caught in Lake Havasu and, not surprisingly, could be a new world record. Here are the specs (from this post): > 5.55 pounds > 16.75 inches long > 19-inch girth Wow! The current IGFA redear record is 5 pounds, 7 ounces, caught by Amos Gray in a “diversion canal” [...]
World’s Largest Hook-and-Line Albino
They call me Ishmael. Okay, this post had to start that way. Because this is about a white whale – a whale of an albino catfish caught by a legally blind gal in Spain. Here’s how it happened. > The River Ebro, near Barcelona, Spain is know for its giant cats. World-record size. > If [...]
We Need To Break This Record Too
Can we get some records here fellas? We recently wrote about the “world’s biggest” fishing tourney, officially certified by the Guinness folks. It was a toothy-critter (walleye) tourney, and we have been assured that several bass derbies would beat that boat count hands down. Now I read about 382 sailfish being caught in the Stuart [...]
The Upside of Zebra Mussels?
With all the hue and cry about Asian carp and a few stories in the news recently about zebra mussels contributing to bird dieoffs in the Great Lakes, it’s probably not PC to talk about how “invasive species” can actually improve things here and there. Like: How about the improved water clarity and smallie fishing [...]
Strader’s 6-07 Spot Officially a Record
Wesley Strader’s niiiiiiiiiice 6-07 spotted bass is now an official Tennessee state record. He caught the fish back in July, from the Ocoee River in Polk County. (He also released it – just kidding – check out the lively eye of that fish….) His new record handily defeats the former state record of 5-14, held [...]
Cool Story About Boy’s Record Smallie
Stories about record fish are always fun, but this one even more so. The new Colorado record smallie – 6-08 and 20 3/4 inches – was caught by 11-year-old Conner Peitsmeyer of Aurora on Nov. 12. Reasons why this is great: > Caught by a youngster. > Fishing with his dad, Michael – on a [...]
Who Bought the World Record Largie?
And For How Much? We all know that Manabu Kurita caught the new world largie, but did you know that he’s been trying to sell it? And he may have found a buyer, though no one’s saying who it is yet. Apparently Bass Pro Shops was interested, also Legend Boats.
