Most challenging fishing world records and how to beat them

Most challenging fishing world records and how to beat them

Source: Fox News

7/8/2024

Credit: iStock

A fishing record can always be broken, but some prove particularly challenging to beat.

The International Game Fish Association (IGFA) has been clocking fishing accomplishments since its beginnings. The organization is home to fishing records for both freshwater and saltwater fish in all-tackle, line class, all-tackle length for male, female and junior anglers.

If you're planning to break a record, you can pretest your line with the IGFA for a fee, and you can pre-certify your scale with the nonprofit organization.

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News Id		Source	Stamp	country
3876	Can Drones Fight Illegal "Pirate" Fishing?	National Geographic	2014-07-18	BZ
3877	Atlantic Salmon Show Capacity To Adapt To Warmer Waters	Underwatertimes	2014-07-17	CA
3878	Fisherman Describes Reeling In 482-Pound Halibut	east idaho news	2014-07-14	US
3879	Smiling with the fishes! Cheeky parrotfish photobombs diver's snap	express	2014-07-07	US
3880	Record-Breaking Red Snapper Caught Off the Coast of Texas	abc news	2014-07-01	US
3881	Fish Can Remember For Up To 12 Days	underwatertimes	2014-07-01	CA
3882	New 'Swiss Army knife' cleans up water pollution	eurekalert	2021-05-31	US
3883	Cornell researchers net largest fish ever recorded in Oneida Lake	wktv	2021-05-21	US
3884	Massive bass fish caught off Hicks Bay, East Cape	nzherald	2021-05-21	NZ
3885	‘Like Some Sea Creature From The Deep’: Vampire Fish Making Comeback To American River	baltimore	2021-05-20	US
3886	Salmon Migrate By Truck During California Drought	sacramento	2014-06-15	US
3887	Cod Bones Reveal 13th Century Origin Of Global Fish Trade	underwatertimes	2014-05-27	UK
3888	Fishermen spend TWO HOURS reeling in 'once in a lifetime' 500-pound sawfish in Florida	dailymail	2014-05-26	UK
3889	Rare, mysterious deep sea fish washes ashore along NC coast	myfox8	2016-05-16	US
3890	Farmed fish the source of virus spread among wild salmon, B.C. study suggests	CBC News	2021-05-26	CA
3891	So Now You Know The Whole Sturgeon Story	fishncanada	2021-04-22	CA
3892	Plastics and toxic chemicals are killing fish — and poisoning us	national observer	2021-04-27	CA
3893	Battle over caviar production rages in Missouri, Oklahoma	aljazeera	2014-05-08	UK
3894	Catch of a lifetime for Kitcher	dailyecho	2014-04-30	UK
3895	Fishy chat-up lines and underwater love among Arctic char	irishtimes	2014-05-01	IR
3896	That Redfish Ate What?	sportfishingmag	2014-04-30	US
3897	How much do bass fishing tournaments hurt the fish?	wrvo	2014-03-22	CA
3898	Aquarium breeds rare goby fish in 'species first'	itv	2014-04-12	US
3899	Fisherwoman catches world record 64 STONE tuna (worth $2m or 1,769 tins) but she's going to get it stuffed instead	dailymail	2014-04-04	UK
3900	Chadwick the chagoi koi carp was found in Totton two months after escaping from Romsey World of Water seven miles away	dailyecho	2014-04-03	UK

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