![]() ![]() Lou Marron was trolling a live bonito off Chile in 1953 when he hooked this 1,182-pound swordfish. NOAA Fisheries reports a specimen 105 pounds, 60 inches long, but offers no details. (And they can return in later years unlike Pacific salmon, they live to return to sea after spawning.) It is likely this record had spent at least five years at sea.Ĭould this record be defeated? Apparently the species can get even larger, to wit one weighing 109 pounds reportedly caught in a net in the estuary of the Hope River, Scotland in 1960. Large adults that return to Atlantic rivers typically have spent four years at sea, but can remain in the ocean longer, feeding and growing. Hoping to halt a decline in salmon populations, the river has been closed by Norway and Finland to salmon fishing in 20. ![]() The Tana River flows into the Barents Sea, but fishing isn’t what it used to be. The only IGFA record catch within spitting distance of celebrating its 100 th anniversary, this enormous Atlantic salmon came from the Tana River in Norway in January, 1928, for angler Henrik Hennriksen (reportedly a fishing guide, and undoubtedly a hardy sort to be fishing a Norwegian river in the dead of winter - which is when Atlantic salmon often continue to spawn in these large rivers). This enormous Atlantic salmon came from the Tana River in Norway, the same river where the world-record 79-pounder was caught in 1928. The records listed here are strictly weight records. Fortunately, the IGFA also keeps records for records by length, so any species can qualify for length records. So in some cases, bigger fish have been caught but released without any possibility of weight record consideration. Species which by law can’t be removed from the water can’t be weighed on a certified scale on land (or an object grounded in the earth). Some records are not only monsters for their species, but have gotten protection from laws that mean they can’t be challenged according to IGFA rules. But to remain as records for 40 or 50 years - or nearly a century - well, they’ve got to be pretty damned close. It’s hard to say that any are unequivocally the largest of their species that ever lived. ![]() Actually there may be a couple of reasons, but the main one is that these fish are just too big to beat. There’s a reason these records have remained for decades. In fact, there are many instances of world records being broken the same day they were set - even more than once! With that in mind, here are the 19 most impressive records to have stood the test of time - and are, like boxers who refused to go down, still standing. But the fact is that such records are often surprisingly fleeting, broken by a larger fish caught years, months or even weeks later. That may sound a bit cavalier describing something as priceless and prestigious as an all-tackle world record, particularly for major game fish. ![]()
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