THAILAND: caught huge 400 lb freshwater stingray

Here a recent fishing report received by Rick Humphreys of Fishsiam (www.fishsiam.com) that operate in Thailand, Asia.

"Recently my company Fishsiam Ltd filmed another Giant freshwater stingray National Geographic show with Zeb Hogan at Maeklong River in Thailand.
During the production Zeb assisted by our team caught several large stingrays.

The largest had dimensions of 1.8 meter in width and almost 4 meter in length.
We have always estimated weights of the stingrays due to fish care concerns.
On this occasion we built a custom rig to weigh the stingray and accurately weighed the stingray at 400 lb - 175kg+.

The show is airing on 7 July in the US and worldwide soon after. (See more here)

The stingray was landed after a 1 hour plus battle which saw Zeb and several members of the Fishsiam team taking turns to land the fish.

It was beaten on a 130 lb stand up rod with Okuma Makaira twin speed multiplier with Owner 9/0 circle hooks and heavy duty mono.

Here an old National Geographic video with Zeb Hogan fishing huge stingrays.

AUSTRALIA: black marlin jumps into the boat

This YouTube video comes from Australia. A group of anglers were black marlin fishing off Port Stephens when the hooked 60 lb fish decided to jump directly into the boat.

FLORIDA: monster 600 lb goliath grouper caught

In this video you can see the catch of a monster size goliath grouper estimated to be around 500-600 lbs. 

Earlier in the week, BlackTipH crew caught one at least 100 lbs larger than this with Team Infinity Fishing.

IRELAND: caught an huge ray skate of 176 lb

Big rays skate are a rarity off the North West coast of Ireland, so you can imagine how was the adrenaline of Capt Declan Kilgannon when in 2 different trips aboard his boat resulted in the capture of a 100 pound plus fish.

He was fishing out of Mullaghmore in County Sligo, guest angler William Wallace banked a huge 176 pound - 80 kilo female skate, later followed by the capture of a male skate weighing 134 pound - 60.70 kilo by the skipper himself.

Fortunately both fish were tagged and released. 

CANADA: caught an 880 lb sturgeon on Fraser river

Angler Ron Jarvis and his young son, Paul  were fishing in the famous Fraser River in British Columbia last week when Paul hooked and fought a giant sturgeon for more than 3 and half hours before corralling it near shore and getting measurements and photos.

The huge white sturgeon weighed an estimated 880 lb - 398 kg, measuring just under twelve feet.

This huge fish is one of the biggest white sturgeon ever caught on the Fraser River and in all Canada. In the past years some sturgeons over 1,000 pound were caught in this world famous river.

After the photos the fish was safely released.

Source: Great River Fishing http://greatriverfishing.com

FLORIDA: shark attacks a tarpon in this video

During the annual White Buffalo Tarpon Tournament off Anna Maria Island, in Florida, a fishing boat had a close encounter with a big hammerhead shark that appeared from nowhere and suddenly attacked the hooked tarpon.

ALASKA: caught a monster size 405 lb halibut

Alaska waters are full of big halibut and every day is possible to catch a monster size fish.

All this  happened recently when angler Michael Clancy fished off Chenega Bay caught an huge 405 pound - 183 kilo halibut.

Back at the dock this huge predator fish was measured in over 7 and a half feet long. It took Clancy and his friends 35 minutes to bring the large flatfish to boatside.

The largest halibut ever  caught in all the world  was a 515 pound - 233 kilo off the coast of North Norway in Altlantic Ocean.
On the Pacific side a 459 pound - 203 kilo is written the record books as the largest halibut ever caught.

See more big fishes caught in Alaska waters at: Big Fishes of the World

Report source: http://bleacherreport.com

CANADA: hand feeding giant bluefin tunas in this video

This video was made in Canada off  Prince Edward Island by Captain Jamie Bruce on the "Tuna Clipper" boat.

You can see 400 to 950 lb huge bluefin tunas coming up to the surface to suck down what appears to be sardine and herring baits as they are tossed into the water at boatside.

US: lady angler caught an huge 834 pound marlin

The past week during the annual  "Mississippi Gulf Coast Billfish Classic" an huge blue marlin of 834 lb was caught by angler  Deb Hebert

Deb is only  106 pound Deb and whipped the marlin that outweighed her by more than 737 pounds...

Deb, who is an Air Force flight surgeon and a marathon runner, has caught giant yellowfin tuna and released smaller marlin before now. But this is her largest catch yet and it’s the largest marlin ever weighed by a lady angler in the tournament’s 16-year history.


She was fishing on "Iona Louise" about 30 miles south of South Pass, Louisiana, in 2,300 feet of water near the Ewing Bank, when the marlin ate a live five-pound blackfin tuna off the starboard outrigger.

The marlin was caught on I.G.F.A. 80 lb line with a 300-pound leader. The crew had to wire the fish 15 times before they finally boated it.

VIDEO: caught an huge piraiba catfish in Suriname

This video was uploaded on Beet Magazine Youtube page this week. 

Famous angler and journalist Arnout Terlouw and his friends went to the jungle of Surinam, in South America, for fishing an unknown river for lau lau or piraiba; this is for sure the biggest and and strongest Amazon catfish.

IRELAND: caught a 174 pound huge skate

Sea angler Joe Cawley had beginners luck on his side when he tried his hand at sea fishing for the first time and landed this giant 174 lb - 79 kg  skate.

The huge skate was the first of the species caught in Ireland this season and was landed aboard "Whitewater II", using a mackerel - squid cocktail bait on 50 lb mainline.

Cawley  need over 45 minutes to land the huge skate which came towards the end of a trip which featured the capture of numerous other interesting nice size species.

 www.clewbaycharters.com

US: caught a 95 pound paddefish in Tennessee

While fishing in his home waters, young angler Gene Armstrong caught a big size paddlefish. The fish was  69.9-inch for 95 lb and according with the Tennessee Wildlife Agency is the new state record.

Armstrong  was fishing from shore and after catching some nice size bass, he he decided to give paddlefishing a try.

Fishing in 70 to 80 feet of water with 20 lb line, Armstrong quickly made contact with the fish and fought it for nearly 45-50 minutes.

This big paddlefiah is the second-largest fish caught by rod-and-reel in this state. It outweighed the Tennessee  state record by 14 pounds, and is shadowed only by a 112-pound blue catfish from the Cumberland River.

You can see more paddlefish caught in US at Big Fishes of the World web site.

IGFA WORLD RECORDS: Hot Catches May 2014

Angler Kelvin Ng recently traveled from his home in Singapore to fish the waters off Malaysia. On May 13th, while fly fishing off the coast of Langkawi, Ng hooked into a huge ladyfish (Elops spp.) that put up a spirited 12 minute fight after eating a white clouser. The 83 cm ladyfish was quickly documented, before it was released alive – qualifying Ng for the potential new All-Tackle Length record. The current IGFA record is 63 cm.

IGFA Trustee Gary A. Carter, of Duluth, Georgia, caught the potential new men’s 2 kg (4 lb) line class record for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) on April 22nd, while fishing out of Bornholm, Denmark, with local guide Jan Svenstrup. Carter skillfully played the fish for more than two hours, after it ate the live bait he was trolling. Back at the docks, the salmon weighed in at 11.2 kg (24 lb 11 oz) – eclipsing the current record, which stands at 7.85 kg (17 lb 4 oz). Carter’s fish not only qualifies for a record, but it was also the final fish he needed to complete his Salmon Royal Slam

Angler Luis Aragon caught an 8.05 kg (17 lb 12 oz) northern snakehead (Channa argus) on May 20th, while fishing the Quantico Creek in northern Virginia, USA. The potential All-Tackle record snakehead crushed a Mepps lure that Aragon was casting. After a quick, but tough fight, Aragon had the fish subdued. The current IGFA record is 7.88 kg (17 lb 6 oz), and was caught in the same area, just last year.

On March 1st, while fishing off Salinas, Ecuador, local angler Maria Beatriz Gonzalez Rubio caught a 7.82 kg (17 lb 4 oz) Pacific snook (Centropomus spp.) that could earn her the new women’s 24 kg (50 lb) line class record. Rubio was trolling a Yo-Zuri Sashimi lure, and needed ten minutes to land the fish. The current IGFA record is 5.67 kg (12 lb 8 oz).

www.igfa.org

FLORIDA: caught from the shore three tiger shark in a night

This video shoot in Florida was recently uploaded on Youtube by BalckTipH. The fishing team in single night caught three huge tiger shark over 9 feet also caught a huge nurse shark.

All the sharks were quickly released after being documented by the fishermen.

One of the tiger sharks that we caught had a research tag from the "Apex Predator Program" at NOAA that this shark had been tagged by researchers one year earlier in Bimini, Bahamas.