World record snakehead fish

Emanuel Tankersley wasn’t looking for fame when he caught a monster northern snakehead last year while fishing on a Northern Virginia creek. He’s caught a lot of big snakeheads, he says, and some of them were trophy-sized, if not record, fish.

Perhaps that explains why Tankersley’s 19-pound 5-ounce catch, which was certified as the world record by the International Game Fish Association (IGFA) in October, remained under the radar.

“I fish for snakeheads a lot, mainly throwing topwater plugs from my kayak,” Tankersley told Bay Bulletin’s Wild Chesapeake. “I knew it was a really big fish, and after I weighed it on the bathroom scale, I was pretty sure it was a world record.” Tankersley needed only four minutes to subdue the beast after it crushed an imitation frog he cast into the lily pads that adorn Potomac Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River near Fredericksburg.

The next day, his catch was confirmed by a Virginia’s Department of Game and Inland Fisheries biologist, who also helped Tankersley with the IGFA paperwork. Virginia does not recognize this non-native, invasive species for state record consideration, but the agency biologists will confirm the spec

South Florida fisherman Ryan Alvarez caught a giant snakehead on April 23 that’s been certified as a new world record. The International Game Fish Association highlighted the record fish in a Facebook post Sunday. It noted that Alvarez’s great snakehead (known locally as a bullseye snakehead) weighed just over 17 pounds and is the new all-tackle world record for the species.

Alvarez did not immediately respond to a request for comment about his fish, which replaces the previous world record set by Corey Nowakowski. (Nowakowski had previously held seven of those world records, as reported in Anglers Journal.) According to the IGFA’s post, Alvarez was fishing a canal in Pompano Beach when the snakehead hammered his Z-Man chatterbait. He landed the fish “after a short but exciting fight,” the IGFA added.

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At this point, most record-seeking anglers would’ve sought out a certified scale at a fish market, grocery store, or some other shop. But because of Alvarez’s proximity to the IGFA headquarters building, which lies just 16 miles south of where he was fishing in Pompano Beach, he brought the big snakehead t

Maryland outdoorsman Matt Foreman made a serious haul while on a chartered bowfishing trip earlier this month. Fishing the Susquehanna River the night of June 7, Foreman and three of his buddies harvested 26 snakeheads and a bonus blue cat with their guide, Capt. Nick Mather. One of those snakeheads weighed 21.8 pounds, and in addition to breaking the Maryland tape for the species, Foreman’s fish is a new bowfishing planet record.

Foreman tells Outdoor Life that one of his friends, Jay Marcum, put a backup arrow in the record fish as he was reeling it in.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources recognized Foreman’s state-record snakehead in an announcement Monday, noting that the record falls under the state’s Invasive Division. Maryland urges anglers to catch and eliminate as many invasive snakeheads as they can, and it’s illegal to transport these fish alive inside the state. The similar rules apply to flathead and blue catfish, which along with snakeheads are considered the most harmful fish in Maryland waters.

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The MDNR also referred to the fish as a “Chesapeake Channa” in its announcement. This new nickn

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This Giant Snakehead Was Just Declared a New World Record. It Was Caught from a Florida Canal

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At this point, most record-seeking anglers would’ve sought out a certified scale at a fish market, grocery store, or some other shop. But because o