TROUT BROWN (Salmo Trutta)


The IGFA All taclke world record for the Brown Trout 18.8 kg / 41 lb caught by Tom Healy on Manistee River, Michigan  www.igfa.org
A brown trout caught in Lokvarka Reservoir in Croatia  55 lb / 25,5 kg
Fishing in the Milwaukee Harbour, Wisconsin, USA, fishing guide Eric Haataja landed a brown trout of 97 centimetres while casting a skirted jig. After a tough 10 minute fight, Eric boated the brownie to measure and photograph, before releasing it alive. (www.igfa.org)



On the top three monster size brown trout caught by guide  Eric Haataja on Lake Michigan. (www.wibigfish.com)

An huge brwon trout from Austria by angler Hans Schaar 36 lb - 16.30 kilos

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Brown trout is part of the salmonidae family; it is also called German brown trout,  Lochleven trout, European brown trout, brownie sea trout, lake trout, brook trout, river trout, bull trout, English trout, von Behr trout.
 Native to Europe and parts of Asia, from Afghanistan and the Aral Sea across Europe to the British Isles, and back across Scandinavia to Poluostrov Kanin (Cape Kanin), Iceland, in Russia, on the Barents Sea. This trout has been introduced in other areas, notably, Newfoundland, Canada, U.S.A., South America, Africa and New Zealand . Today it is found throughout the USA in the Great Lakes area, to the northern edge of Georgia, south in some high gradient streams and rivers of the Mississippi River drainage system,  south in the Appalachians,  throughout much of Nebraska, and in every state west of Texas and Nebraska to the Pacific coast.

DISTRIBUTION:Europe - North America
MAX SIZE:55 lb / 25 kg
MAX LENGTH:55 inch / 140 cm
MAX AGE:Aprox. 20 years
ENVIRONMENT:Freshwater

PAYARA (Hydrolycus spp.)


Paul Reiss from Acute Angling with a superb payara from the deep Amazon jungle www.acuteangling.com


 Angler Maximilian Hampl  landed a toothy 6.25 kg (13 lb 12 oz) payara while fishing the Rio Tocantins. Hampl used a live bait fish to induce a strike from this strong predator, and needed eight minutes to land it. www.igfa.org
Payara is a member of the Cynodontidae family; it is also called peixe cachorro, dog fish, saber toothed dogfish, tiger fish, guapeta.
 Payara inhabit freshwater rivers and lakes in South America from the Orinoco to Paraguay River basins. The distribution of large payara is limited to a few places in Columbia, Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana, Peru and probably Ecuador. They prefer fast moving water, but are found in still waters of lakes and rivers as well. Payara are among the gamest of South Americas freshwater fishes, leaping when hooked and making long fast runs. They are picivorous predators that attack upward, stabbing prey with the large canine teeth and then swallowing them whole and head first.

DISTRIBUTION: South America
MAX SIZE: 44 lb / 20 kg
MAX LENGHT: 60 inches / 150 cm
MAX AGE: Unkonwn
ENVIRONMENT: Freshwater

PIKE AMUR (Esox reicherti)

An amur pike caught in Mongolia by a Salmo Team expedition www.salmo.com.pl




A nice size amur pike caught by top angler Gong Lei

The amur pike lives in east Asia, mainly in Mongolia and in some rivers and lakes of east Russia. Very few is know about this predator. Seems to grow up to 45 pound - 20 kilo.

DISTRIBUTION:
East Europe Asia
MAX SIZE:
45 lb / 20 kg ?
MAX LENGTH:
51 inch / 130 cm
MAX AGE:
Unknown
ENVIRONMENT:
Freshwater

GIANT PANGASIUS CATFISH (Pangasius sanitwongsei)

John Merritt's 65 pound 29.50 kg Giant Pangasius caught with guide Jean Francois Helias.

A giant pangasius catfish (Pangasius sanitwongsei) caught in Thailand.


A 100 lb -45.00 kg Giant Pangasius or Chaophraya giant catfish (Pangasius sanitwongsei) caught in Thailand by  French angler Bruno Andre with fishing guide J.F. Helias www.anglingthailand.com  

GIANT PANGASIUS CATFISH VIDEOS:
 A 110 lb - 50 kg catfish


An huge giant pangasius video

The giant pangasius or Chao Phraya giant catfish (Pangasius sanitwongsei) is a species of freshwater fish in the shark catfish family (family Pangasiidae) of order Siluriformes, found in the Chao Phraya and Mekong basins in Indochina.

DISTRIBUTION:Asia
MAX SIZE:110 lb / 50 kg
MAX LENGTH:64 inch / 165 cm
MAX AGE:20 aprox
ENVIRONMENT:Freshwater

MANGAR (Luciobarbus Esocinus)


An impressive luciobarbus esocinus (mangar) caught in Turkey. Photo credit to  www.fishing-worldrecords.com

a nice Luciobarbus Esocinus (Mangar) caught in Iraq on a private lake of ex dictator Saddam Hussein





Luciobarbus is a somewhat disputed genus of ray-finned fishes in the family Cyprinidae. Its species are mainly found around the Mediterranean region. Its type species is the Mangar (L. esocinus), for which the genus was established by Heckel in 1843. The type species' scientific name essentially means "pike-like pike-barbel" (after the Northern Pike, Esox lucius) though a more aliteral translation would be "pike-like wolf-barbel.

DISTRIBUTION:
Asia
MAX SIZE:
310 lb / 140 kg
MAX LENGTH:
86 inch / 220 cm
MAX AGE:
Unknown
ENVIRONMENT:
Freshwater

CATFISH WELS (Silurus glanis)

A mighty 218 lb and measured 7 feet caught bt German anglers Stefan Seuss,  Uli Schuppler and Patrick Nimz of Team Black Cat www.team-black-cat.com

A world record size wels catfish from Italy.


Roberto Godi weighed a catfish wels of 250lbs 3ozs on Po river in Italy.
This huge 7,7 feet wels catfish was landed on River Po in Italy by  Team Black Cat www.team-black-cat.com


Occurs mainly in large lakes and rivers, though occasionally enters brackish water in the Baltic and Black Seas. Found in deep waters of  dams constructed on the lower reaches of rivers. Known to feed at night on ducks, voles, crayfish and small fishes. Spawns in the salt water of the Aral Sea (at Kulandy). Its distribution is wide: Russia, Central & Eastern Europe. Germany, upper Rhine and eastwards to  the Black and Caspian Seas.

DISTRIBUTION:Europe 
MAX SIZE:265 lb / 120 kg
MAX LENGHT:98 inch / 250 cm
MAX AGE:aprox. 15 years
ENVIRONMENT:Freshwater

TRAIRA (Hoplias aimara)

A nice traira (Hoplias aimara) caught by angler Martini Arostegui and IGFA record www.igfa.org

A great size traira caught in Brasil by a Sumax Fishing angler
Monster size traira of Rio Juruena in Brazil. The weight of this fish is surely over 80 pound - 40 kilos.

A traira caught in Brazil at Suià Micu Lodge www.suiamicu.com


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The traira or freshwater Wolf Fish, is a species  found in the rivers of South America; mainly in Brazil, Guyana and Suriname. Triara is often found in counter current zones of principal rivers and creeks. This fish is mainly an ambush predator of fish but also feeds opportunistically on other animals that fall into the water such as terrestrial invertebrates. Seems that this fish can reach the 80 pound - 40 kilos and 47 inch - 120 cm in lenght but bigger fishes was caught with net in the past decade.

DISTRIBUTION:South America
MAX SIZE:80 lb / 40 kg (?)
MAX LENGTH:47 inch / 120 cm
MAX AGE:Unknown
ENVIRONMENT:Saltwater

SALMON CHINOOK (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)

An impressive giant chinook salmon caught in Alaska. A great IGFA world record www.igfa.org


At Good Hope Cannery Resort at Rivers Inlet in British Columbia (Canada) sport fishing record chinook was caught  that weighed about 83.3 pounds by Deborah Whitman-Perry. www.goodhopecannery.com

 Guide Joey (Rivers Inlet Sportsman’s Club Fly in Trophy Salmon Fishing Lodge www.riversinlet.com) and Guest Services Megan are all smiles over this 60 lb huge chinook salmon. 


Angler Bob Gaines of Irvine, California, USA, landed a massive 111 cm Chinook salmon on  while fly casting on the Smith River, California with guide Andy Martin. 

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Chinook salmon is also called king salmon, spring salmon, tyee, quinnat, blackmouth. It is a member of the Pacific salmon genus Oncorhynchus and is both largest and least abundant of this group. It is endemic to the Pacific and rarely, the Arctic Ocean as well as the Bering Sea, the Okhotsk Sea, the Sea of Japan, and most of the rivers that flow into these waters; from Hokkaido in northern Japan to the Anadyr River in the former U.S.S.R., and from the Ventura River in southern California to Point Hope, Alaska. Since as early as 1872, it has been introduced into other waters around the world including the Great Lakes, Atlantic and Gulf states of the U.S., some areas of Central and South America, Europe, and the South Pacific. These transplanted populations apparently failed due to an inability to maintain spawning levels, with the exceptions of South Island in New Zealand, and to some degree in the Great Lakes. In Chile more recent transplants have shown hope of becoming established with some chinook returning to spawn.
DISTRIBUTION: North America
MAX SIZE: 155 lb / 70 kg
MAX LENGHT: 59 inch / 150 cm
MAX AGE: 9 years
ENVIRONMENT: Freshwater

SHARK WITHE (Carcharodon carcharias)

The world record withe shark caught in Australian by A.Dean  2664 lb -1206 kg.


A 2000 plus pound white shark caught with a net in Mexico.

Angler Vic Hislop with a monster white shark caught in Australia.


a massive withe shark caught in Mexico in a tuna farm.

Frank Mundus with a great shark caught off Mountak (New York) back in 1986.

Frank Mundus with a great white shark caught off the coast of Long Island in 1980.


Also called great white shark, white pointer, white death, man eater
 Occurs worldwide, most commonly in cool temperate seas. It is best known in parts of the central and western Pacific, especially off Australia and New Zealand. On the Pacific coast of the U.S. it stays in the cool, southbound in shore current off California, but does not occur in California's warmer off shore waters. It is known to occur as far north as Nova Scotia in the western Atlantic and northern Spain in the eastern Atlantic. In the winter it occurs south of Florida, the Gulf of Mexico and the West Indies. It is also known to enter the Mediterranean Sea.

DISTRIBUTION: All Oceans
MAX SIZE: 7500 lb / 3400 kg
MAX LENGHT: 24 feet / 8 mt
MAX AGE: 40 Years
ENVIRONMENT:  Saltwater

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