TARPON (Megalops atlanticus)

 

Diana Rudolph  135 lb 5oz tarpon caught in Florida

 

Max Domecq of Hossegor was guided by Captain Patrick Sebile in Guinea Bissau (Africa) to catch the All-Tackle 286 lb 9 oz (130 kg) tarpon www.igfa.org

French angler Daniel Lopuszanski fishing out of Pointe Noire, Congo on April 4, 2012 with local guide Maurice Gregoirei landed a massive 105.2 kg (231 lb 14 oz) silver king.

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Occurs in warm temperate tropical and subtropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean. This coastal fish can be found both inshore and offshore. Because of its ability to gulp air directly into the air bladder by “rolling” at the surface, the tarpon is able to enter brackish and fresh waters that are stagnant and virtually depleted of oxygen. Such areas are relatively free of predators, thus offering a convenient refuge for the young.
Fishing methods are still fishing with live mullet, pinfish, crabs, shrimp, etc., or casting or trolling with spoons, plugs, or other artificial lures. The best fishing is at night when the tarpon is feeding. They are hard to hook because of their hard, bony mouths. Once hooked they put up a stubborn and spectacular fight, often leaping up to 10 feet out of the water. It was one of the first saltwater species to be declared a game fish.

DISTRIBUTION:	Atlantic Ocean
MAX SIZE:	300 lb / 135 kg
MAX LENGHT:	90 inch / 230 cm
MAX AGE:	Aprox. 15 years (?)
ENVIRONMENT:	Saltwater

Meagre (Argyrosomus regius)

Argyrosomus regius (also known as Meagre, Shade-fish, Salmon-Basse or Stone Basse) is a fish of the Sciaenidae family. It has a similar form to a European seabass, with a pearly-silver coloration and a yellow-coloured mouth. Meagre is a carnivore that lives in pelagic coastal areas. Its depth distribution ranges 15–300 m. Habitats include the Atlantic Ocean (from France to Senegal) and the Mediterranean Sea.

DISTRIBUTION:	Atlantic Ocean Mediterranean
MAX SIZE:	120 lb / 55 kg
MAX LENGHT:	78 inch / 200 cm
MAX AGE:	Unknown
ENVIRONMENT:	Saltwater

CATFISH SORUBIM SPOTTED (Pseudoplatystoma corruscans)

A 90 pound sorubim caught in Paraguay by angler Mr. George Liska.

An huge sorubim catfish. Source Facebook site of Pesca & Comphania

Angler Joao Luiz Lusardo while fishing in Argentina  hooked this sorubim.

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Pseudoplatystoma corruscans, the spotted sorubim, is a species of long-whiskered catfish native to the São Francisco and Paraná River basins.

DISTRIBUTION:	South America
MAX SIZE:	145 lb / 65 kg
MAX LENGHT:	75 inch / 190 cm
MAX AGE:	Unknown
ENVIRONMENT:	Freshwater

PERCH JUNGLE (Hampala macrolepidota)

Some nice jungle perch caught in Borneo (http://beraufishing.blogspot.it/) 

It has an enormous natural range extending eastwards from Myanmar via Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam as far as southwestern China and to the south through Peninsular Malaysia and into the Greater Sunda Islands of Borneo and Sumatra. It thus occurs throughout the great Mekong and Chao Phraya drainages as well as a host of smaller river basins, lakes and reservoirs with specific localities being far too numerous to list.

DISTRIBUTION:	Asia
MAX SIZE:	18 lb / 8 kg
MAX LENGHT:	23 inch / 60 cm
MAX AGE:	Unknown
ENVIRONMENT:	Freshwater

GROPUER WRECKFISH (Polyprion americanus)

Two huge wreckfish caught in Whakatane, New Zealand and IGFA world record. www.igfa.org

Angler Brady Rowe with his prize capture - a 62.7kg landed in the Bay of Islands New Zealand.

A 57 kg - 122 pound wreckfish

 

The wreckfish, Polyprion americanus, is a marine, bathydemersal, and oceanodromous fish in the family Polyprionidae. It is found in the Eastern and Western Atlantic Ocean, Western Indian Ocean, and in the Southwest Pacific Ocean. It is also known as Stone Bass, because it inhabits rocky ledges and wrecks.Wreckfish are deep-water fish and can be found on the ocean bottom at depths between 40 and 600 m.

DISTRIBUTION: Pacific Ocean
MAX SIZE: 220 lb / 100 kg
MAX LENGHT: 82 inch / 210 cm
MAX AGE: Probably over 50 years
ENVIRONMENT:Saltwater

TILEFISH GREAT NORTHERN (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps)

Angler Angelo Ruvio landed a massive great northern tilefish while fishing Poorman’s Canyon off the coast of New Jersey with Capt. Jason Kim tipping the scales at 29.57 kg (65 lb 3 oz).

The distribution of this fish is: USA and Gulf of Mexico,  Nova Scotia in Canada to southern Florida.

DISTRIBUTION:	West Atlantic Ocean
MAX SIZE:	65 lb / 30 kg
MAX LENGHT:	50 inch / 15 cm
MAX AGE:	Aprox. 35 years
ENVIRONMENT:	Saltwater

TILEFISH BLUE LINE (caulolatilus microps)

DISTRIBUTION:	West Atlantic Ocean
MAX SIZE:	22 lb / 10 kg
MAX LENGHT:	35 inch / 90 cm
MAX AGE:	Aprox. 15 years
ENVIRONMENT:	Saltwater

ROOSTERFISH (Nematistius pectoralis)

A world record fly fishing roosterfish caught from the shore (www.igfa.org)

This 101-Pound (45.5 kilograms) Roosterfish was caught by angler Jack Kautz near Punta Arena off the East Cape of Baja California.

Olivier Charpernter of Peche Panama and an his client with a super roostefish caught on spin fisnign www.pechepanama.com
George Couch with an 85 plus pound roosterfish caight off Tropic Star Lodge in Panama (www.tropicstar.com)

Angler Leah Genoun e caught this huge size roosterfish during a recent trip to Zancudo Lodge. www.zancudolodge.com

A world record size roosterfish caught in Mexico.

Occurs in the eastern Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California to Peru. most commonly off Ecuador. An in shore species, it is found in the surf, over sandy bottoms, and in moderate depths. It is a predator of small fishes. When hooked or in pursuit of prey it will raise its dorsal fin like a flag and leap repeatedly, greyhounding over the surface. Fishing methods are trolling or casting baits and lures, or live bait fishing from a boat or shore.

DISTRIBUTION:	East Pacific Ocean
MAX SIZE:	120 lb / 55 kg
MAX LENGHT:	65 inch / 170 cm
MAX AGE:	Unknown
ENVIRONMENT:	Saltwater

SKYGAZER (Chanodichthys erythropterus)

A skygazer caught in Cina on a Waii Long fishing trip expedition http://anglingworld.blogspot.com/

Mr. Mikhail Skopets  caught this skygazer in Russia on Amyr river www.flyfishingrussia.blogspot.com

Skygazer is a predatory carp that live in East Russia and Cina rivers.

Skygazer caught in China by angler Gong Lei tipping the scales at 30 lbs and 122 cm

A nice Skygazer caught in China by angler Gong Lei 

An other huge 13.3 kg skygazer for top angler Gong Lei

DISTRIBUTION:	Asia
MAX SIZE:	26 lb / 12 kg
MAX LENGTH:	43 inch / 110 cm
MAX AGE:	Unknown
ENVIRONMENT:	Freshwater

PACU (Piaractus mesopotamicus)

A nice size pacu caught in Bun San Lan lake, Thailand (www.anglingthailand.com)

Angler Lek Sungwichien with a pacu

Huge size pacu caught on Pal Tree Lagoon in Thailand.
Christian Giordano with fishing guide Jean Francois Helias with a giant pacu caught in Thailand.  (www.anglingthailand.com)

Big size pacu caught at Palm Tree Lagoon in Thailand. www.palmtreelagoon.co.uk

Huge size pacu caught by Tim Webb


Pacu (Piaractus mesopotamicus), is also called: pez chato, mbiraí, or piraí, is a South American ray-finned fish that is endemic to the Paraguay-Paraná River basin, though it has been introduced by aquaculture activities in a wider area.
This fish is an omnivore. Young individuals usually feed on micro-crustaceans, but adults choose insects and plants, as well as nuts and seeds that fall from trees in flooded forests.

DISTRIBUTION:	South America
MAX SIZE:	44 lb / 20 kg
MAX LENGHT:	20 inch / 50 cm
MAX AGE:	Unknown
ENVIRONMENT:	Freshwater

TROUT RAINBOW (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Greg Stotesbury and His 22.6 Lb Rainbow Trout caught at  Irvine Lake Sees New Lake.

Michael Mitchell hooked into his record rainbow trout  from Loch Earn, located in Perthshire, Great Britain (UK). With 38 inches in total length and a girth of 26 inches and weight over 34 pounds.

Saskatchewan fisherman Sean Konrad caught a 48 pound world record rainbow trout from lake Diefenbaker. www.igfa.org

Konrad brothers with a giant rainbow trout from lake Diefenbaker.

Angler Craig Adkinson with a 18 lb - 8.15 kilo raimbow trout caught with a small jig.

Larry Warren was fishing on the North Fork of Idaho’s Clearwater River when hooked and landed a rainbow trout weighing at least 28 pounds - 12.68 kg.


Trout raibow is a fish  native to the west coast of North America from southern Alaska to Durango, Mexico and inland as far as central Alberta in Canada and Idaho and Nevada in the U.S. It has been extensively introduced across the lower Canadian provinces and throughout the area of the Great Lakes to the Atlantic coast, south in the Appalachians to northern Georgia and Alabama, east in the southern U.S. to western Texas and sporadically in the central U.S. as well as above the Great Lakes on the Atlantic coast. It has been transplanted to New Zealand, Australia, South America, Africa, Japan, southern Asia, Europe and Hawaii. An Asian species known as the Kamchatka trout is believed to be a form of the rainbow trout. It is native to the Amur River in the eastern part of Russia as well as Kamchatka.

DISTRIBUTION:	North America Europe
MAX SIZE:	55 lb / 25 kg
MAX LENGHT:	40 inch / 100 cm
MAX AGE:	15 years (?)
ENVIRONMENT:	Freshwater

SARDINATA (brycon whitei)

Alejandro Linares with a word record size sardinata caught on rio Negro in Colombia (www.igfa.org)

DISTRIBUTION:	South America
MAX SIZE:	11 lb / 5 kg
MAX LENGHT:	15 inch / 40 cm
MAX AGE:	unknown
ENVIRONMENT:	Freshwater

CATFISH RIPSAW (Oxydoras niger)

This ripsaw catfish was caught by fishing guide Jean Francois Helias in Thailand (www.anglingthailand.com)

A ripsaw catfish caught in fishing pond in Thailand

A big size ripsaw catfish caught at Palm Tree Lagoon Lake in Thailand http://www.palmtreelagoon.co.uk

The ripsaw catfish (Oxydoras niger) or cuiu cuiu is a species of thorny catfish native to the tropical river basins of South America being found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Venezuela.

DISTRIBUTION:	South America
MAX SIZE:	55 lb / 25 kg
MAX LENGTH:	50 inch / 130 cm
MAX AGE:	unknown
ENVIRONMENT:	Freshwater