Inshore
NC woman catches record speckled trout
Cathy Jones caught an 11-pound, 3-ounce speckled trout, which will set a new IGFA women’s world record. The fish was 33.5-inches long. […]
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SC angler catches NC state record pompano dolphinfish
Charlie Noonan of Sumter, S.C. has set the North Carolina state record for pompano dolphinfish with an 11.34-pounder caught off Ocean Isle. […]
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Southport angler catches world record Spanish hogfish
Southport angler Dr. Bob Timson caught the new world record Spanish hogfish while fishing offshore of Cape Fear Inlet on July 17, 2021. […]
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Southport angler catches world record Atlantic creole
A North Carolina angler caught the pending world record Atlantic creole while fishing near off the coast of Southport on Sept. 1, 2020. […]
Inshore Fishing
Potential world record sea mullet caught at OBX
A potential new world record sea mullet a/k/a whiting was caught in the surf at Avon on May 24, 2020. […]
Inshore Fishing
Possible world-record sea mullet caught in surf on NC’s Outer Banks
Brett Jordan of Florence, S.C. caught the potential new world record whiting (aka sea mullet, southern kingfish, Virginia mullet) from the surf on the Outer Banks on Nov. 11, 2019. […]
Sheepshead
Potential world-record sheepshead speared out of Nags Head
A new spearfishing world record sheepshead was killed by Quentin Turko of Kitty Hawk, N.C. while he was diving off the coast of Nags Head. […]
Deer Hunting
Virginia hunter’s Illinois non-typical is new world record
Luke Brewster, a Virginia bowhunter, arrowed a huge non-typical buck in Illinois in November of 2018. The buck has been crowned as the largest non-typical bow-killed buck, and as the largest buck ever taken by a hunter in North America. […]
Deer Hunting
Tennessee whitetail is new Boone and Crockett world record
A Tennessee hunter’s 47-point whitetail buck has officially been accepted as the new hunter-taken, non-typical world record by the Boone and Crockett Club after being scored by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency’s B&C scorers. […]
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Giant California yellowfin tuna battle for world record
Two huge yellowfin tuna – the two biggest ever – have been caught in the past couple of months, but only one is being considered for a new world record. John Petruescu caught a 445-pound yellowfin just before sunrise on Dec. 9 while fishing on the Excel, a long-range charterboat out of San Diego, Calif., Although his fish surpassed the existing world record by a full 40 pounds, it was will not be considered as a possible world record because the boat’s captain grabbed the fishing rod twice during the fight, disqualifying it under the rules of the International Game Fish Association (IGFA). […]