Today's news from our Malaysian jungle trip is two more IGFA world records to be added to our tally.
This time for the snakehead length category. Both were set today Oct. 5 by Belgium angler Philippe Pleticx and by yours truly.
Both record catches break the current 75 cm length record held by legendary world record hunter Marty Arostegui.
I profit of this mail to give a special big thank you to the people we love and who have always support us: our good friends from Shimano Corporation USA, Sage, Sebile lures, and VMC France.
Both fish were caught in the very same area where I caught the 8.21 kg yesterday.
I am confident we could eventually break again the now 80 cm pending length record within the another 4 days we have to fish before returning to Thailand on Oct. 10.
Let's end by a nice shot of another "snake" we encountered while fishing in the jungle....the kind you do not mess around with: the deadly and highly poisonous bandit krait....that's the kind of wild stuff you often have to deal with when jungle fishing in remote areas of Southeast Asia....
Jean-Francois Helias
IGFA Lifetime Achievement Award
238 IGFA World Records
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IGFA Lifetime Achievement Award
238 IGFA World Records
www.anglingthailand.com
Inter. call: 66 8 1 846 98 94
Local call: 08 1 846 98 94