This past summer, the IGFA reviewed new findings published in the American Fisheries Society journal, which focused on genetic distinctions among black bass species. Following this research, the IGFA ...

When John and Tucker Bass moved from Tennessee, they were unsure about Wyoming’s bass fishing. Then Tucker, 12, caught a ...

A young teenager and budding fisherman from California capped off his summer in one of the best ways possible: by catching a pending world record with his family. Julian Her, a 13-year-old 8th grader, ...

On February 13th, 2025, renowned fishing record-chaser Art Weston reeled in a world-record spotted bass on Toledo Bend Reservoir in Texas, guided by Austin Anderson. While perhaps not as visually ...

back in February when she boated a 12-pound, 3-ounce largemouth bass after an intense 10-minute battle. Exhausted, Powell put the fish in Smith’s live well, and they took it to a nearby gas station ...

California angler Mac Weakley of Carlsbad recently told the San Diego Union-Tribune that he is thinking seriously about submitting an application to the International Game Fish Association so that the ...

Mackenzie Hickox was only 11 years old when she set the female junior-angler record while fishing with her parents, her sister, and a friend from the shore of a man-made pond near her house. She used ...

Here's what happens when luck, foresight, and skill come together when an angler is out fly fishing for Striped Bass. World record tautog (blackfish) caught by Sam Alsop. / photo provided by Sam Alsop ...