Possible World Record Tarpon Caught and Released

Four anglers fishing with Florida captain Justin Moore landed a monster tarpon last week that could have broken the world record. Drew Denick, Ron Joyce, and Jeremy and Jan Tombl chartered a boat with Moore for a day of tarpon fishing on the Gulf of Mexico.

Tarpon was approx. 96-inches long with a 53-inch girth which would put it in the 300 pound range. The current world record is 286 pounds. 

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Here Fishy Fishy......Nice Fishy

A diver bit off perhaps more than he could chew when he came into contact with a giant Grouper.

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The Yellowstone is not the longest “undammed river” in the United States

Though free of large impoundments such as those on the Missouri, the Yellowstone is not the longest “undammed river” in the United States, as it is often described. Diversion dams block the river at six sites between Billings and Sidney. Like 12-Mile Dam on the Tongue, the Yellowstone’s Huntley, Waco-Custer, Rancher’s Ditch, Yellowstone, Cartersville, and Intake diversion dams were built decades ago to provide water for crop irrigation.

LINK (via: Montana Outdoors)

Those diversion dams are responsible for the loss of hundreds of thousands of fish annually who move in the diversion canals along with the water. Now two giant fish screens have been installed which will help save fish on the Yellowstone.

LINK (via: The Billings Gazette)

Striped bass moving over Bonneville Dam?

Last week a commercial fishing crew caught a 52-pound stripped bass in the Columbia Gorge.

A few days ago, counters photographed what appears to be a striped bass (see bottom of photo) going through Bradford Island count station at Bonneville Dam.

LINK (via: The Spokesman-Review)

World Record Largemouth?

An old fishing mystery came back to life on the 81^st anniversary of the day a Georgia farmer caught what remains the world-record largemouth bass.

LINK (via: Fox News)

Scientists Find Clues in Cases of Fish Virus

The spread of a highly virulent fish virus in four separate coastal Washington watersheds from 2007-2011 has been described in a new research paper by the U.S. Geological Survey. The most probable source of the virus was identified as steelhead trout originating from the Columbia River Basin.

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