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The World Freshwater Angling Championships is a freshwater angling competition.Participating countries fish in teams of five with titles awarded to the team with the fewest points, the competition area is split into sections and the winner with the most weight will be awarded one point, two for second, three for third, at the end of the two days the team with the least points is the top team.
The world record for a yellow by weight is 4 lb 3 oz (1.9 kg), and was caught in May 1865 in Bordentown, New Jersey, by Dr. C. Abbot. [5] It is the longest-standing record for a freshwater fish in North America. [6]
The International Game Fish Association (IGFA) All Tackle World Record for fallfish is 3 pounds 9 ounces (1.6 kg), caught by Jonathan McNamara in the Susquehanna River near Owego, New York, USA on April 15, 2009. The record was tied on May 6, 2022, by angler Josh D. Dolin while fishing the Cowpasture River near Williamsville, Virginia. [7]
The lower jaw of the fish is an observation deck that has on occasion been used for weddings. [2] The museum contains exhibitions of over 400 mounted fish, along with 300 outboard motors. [4] The Hall of Fame also maintains records for the largest fresh water fish in the United States and the world. [3]
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Rock bass are considered game fish throughout much of their range, the IGFA all-tackle world record for the species is a tie between 1.36 kg (3 lb 0 oz) fish caught in York River, Ontario, Canada, and Lake Erie, Pennsylvania, US, in 1974 and 1998 respectively.
Creek chubsuckers are one of about sixty-two species of in the family Catostomidae. All but two species are endemic to North America, [5] and creek chubsuckers can be found in many of the freshwater tributaries of the Atlantic slope streams from Maine to Altamaha drainage of Georgia; Gulf slope streams east to Escambia River drainage, Alabama (single population), west to San Jacinto system ...
The International Game Fish Association (IGFA) all-tackle world record chain pickerel is a 4.25 kg (9.4 lb) fish, caught in Homerville, Georgia on February 17, 1961 by angler Baxley McQuaig, Jr., while the IGFA all-tackle length world record is 65 centimetres (26 in) long, caught in Henderson Harbor, Lake Ontario, New York on November 4, 2019 ...