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HOT Catches from the IGFADecember 2008By Pete Johnson, Johnson Communications – IGFA PR counselClick here to check out December's HOT News
World records coordinator Rebecca Wright of the International Game Fish Association provides highlights of nine selected documented fish catches made across the globe recently submitted for IGFA world records. All are now before the world records committee:
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As he was extreme light-tackle fishing Bolivia’s Rio Tarija, Alejandro Linares, of Medellin, Columbia, landed a dorado (Salminus brasiliensis) on September 25, weighing 6.58 kg (14 lb 8 oz) on 2 kg (4 lb) class line using a Johnson spoon. Linares saw plenty of action in his 30 minute fight to bring the sizable dorado to the hand scale. The current IGFA record he hopes to beat is 13 lb 7 oz ( 6.09 kg), caught on April 20, 1984 on the Parana River in Coratei, Paraguay. 
Fishing near Monbetsu, Japan, lady angler Kumi Tanimotot, of Adachi-Ku, Tokyo, guided by Fimihiro Tanaka, landed a Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) on October 19, weighing 14 kg (30 lb 13 oz) for a possible women’s record on 24 kg (50 lb) class line. Using a metal jig as her bait she fought the fish for about eight minutes. The current women’s IGFA record for the species is 21 lb 0 oz (9.52 kg), caught on May 15, 1994 in Marmor Bay, Kodiak Island, Alaska. 
Light-line fishing near Ocracoke, N.C. USA, angler Maureen Klause, of Ocean City, N.J., USA, guided by Ernest Doshier, landed a red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) on Nov. 11. After hooking up using 3 kg (6 lb) line and a spot head for bait, she battled the fish for 42 minutes before wrestling it to the scale to weigh it in at 19.96 kg (44 lb 0 oz). The current IGFA women’s 6 lb line class record is 43 lb 8 oz (19.73 kg.), caught on Sept. 5,1995 from the Indian River Lagoon, in Florida. 
Using a live sardine, while fishing Golfito, Costa Rica, young Kamila Hampl, of Cartago, CR, guided by Capt. Bobby Mc Guinness, landed a Pacific jack crevalle (Caranx caninus) on October 13. It took her nine minutes to capture the fish which weighed in at 9.85 kg (21 lb 11 oz). The current IGFA girl’s junior record is 17 lb 0 oz ( 7.71 kg), caught on January 28, 2004 in Punta Pina, Panama 
Bo Nelson, of San Francisco, Calif., USA, may have another record to add to his long slate of IGFA world marks. While fly-fishing Canada’s Flathead River, guided by Kim Sedrovic on August 24, Nelson landed a bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) weighing 6.12 kg (13 lb 8 oz). He was using 8 kg (16 lb) tippet tied with a Burk cutthroat fly. The current IGFA record is 10 lb 0 oz (4.53 kg), caught on July 15, 2004. 
Prince Frederick, Md., USA angler Robert LaVey M.D., guided by Richard Young, landed a cubera snapper (Lutjanus cyanopterus) on Nov. 19, weighing12.47 kg (27 lb 8 oz) while fishing on the major river systems in Belize the Sibun. He was using 3 kg (6 lb) class line with mullet as bait. For four hours and 40 minutes with the thin line LaVey carefully fought the fish to the scales. The current men’s IGFA line class record is 24 lb 12 oz (11.24 kg), caught on January 20, 2002 from the Manatee River in Belize City, Belize. 
A new IGFA All-Tackle record for a salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) might be close for Michael Poling, of Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Guided by Tom Konop, while fishing Prince William Sound, Poling used a salmon carcass as bait to entice the shark on August 4. He battled it for an hour and 15 minutes to finally weigh it in at 183.7 kg (405 lb 0 oz). The current IGFA record is 365 lb 0 oz (165.56 kg), caught on August 9, 2005 off Valdez, Alaska. 
Michael Swerdlow, of Islamorada, Fla. USA stayed close to his Florida Keys home to land a 6.97 kg (15 lb 6 oz) bonefish (Albula spp.) on fly Nov. 27. Swerdlow tied a fly to 8 kg (16 lb) tippet. It took him 20 minutes to fight the fish to the shallow-water skiff. The current men’s IGFA fly record is 14 lb12 oz (6.69 kg), caught on Nov. 22, 2001 also in the Florida Bay waters off Islamorada. 
Kisslegg, Germany’s Robin Kaufmann, may see his name on the previously vacant line class section of the IGFA World Record Game Fishes book after landing a wels, (Silurus glanis) on August 2. Guided by Bestle Christian fishing Italy’s River Po, and using a live eel on 37 kg (80 lb) class line, he spent 20 minutes wrestling with the member of the catfish family before weighing it in at 106 kg (233 lb 11 oz).