What is the Florida state record for gag grouper?
What is the Florida state record for gag grouper?
80 lb 6 oz
Florida Saltwater Fishing Records
| SPECIES | SCIENTIFIC NAME | WEIGHT |
|---|---|---|
| Grouper, gag | Mycteroperca microlepis | 80 lb 6 oz |
| Grouper, goliath | Epinephelus itajara | 680 lb |
| Grouper, Nassau | Epinephelus striatus | 9 lb 0 oz |
| Grouper, red | Epinephelus morio | 42 lb 4 oz |
What is the world record red grouper?
Tarek Ziad recently caught this 4.95-kilogram (10-pound, 14-ounce) roving coral grouper to set the new IGFA All-Tackle Record for the species. Tarek was fishing the Red Sea out of El Gouna, Egypt, when the record fish hit a vertical jig he was working.
What is the Florida state record Barracuda?
67 pounds
With the Florida state record holding steady at a whopping 67 pounds, encountering monster barracuda longer than your leg is an everyday occurrence. Who knows, back in the 18th Century there were numerous documented reports of great barracuda approaching 15 feet in length. Imagine that!
What’s the Florida state record for mangrove snapper?
The existing State Top 10 Fish Records top mangrove is a 14.36 pounder caught by Micahel Lorio Sr. in June 2008, and the International Game fish Association lists the world record at 7.71 kilograms (17 pounds) taken by Steve Maddox near Port Canaveral, Florida June 14, 1992.
What’s the biggest gag grouper ever caught?
80 pounds, 6 ounces
The world record for a gag grouper is 80 pounds, 6 ounces and it was caught off Destin, Florida in 1993.
What is the biggest fish ever caught in Florida?
The tuna weighed 832.2 pounds—potentially making it the heaviest bluefin tuna ever caught off of Florida. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Saltwater Angler Recognition program has not yet certified the No Name’s recent catch, but it stands to set the Sunshine State’s bluefin record.
What is the largest goliath grouper ever?
680 pounds
Native to South Florida and beyond, these fish are some of the most sought-after in the sea. As of 2021, the largest Goliath Grouper recorded caught in the wild is 680 pounds on the Southern coast of Florida. Anglers reeled the Grouper in May of 1961.
What’s the biggest flounder ever caught in Florida?
20.9 pounds
The Florida record was actually set in Fernandina in 1983. It weighed 20.9 pounds. The world record was set in Montauk, New York. It weighed 22.7 pounds.
What’s the world record snook?
The largest snook ever recorded was caught in Costa Rica and it weighed 53 pounds and 10 ounces. The largest snook recorded in Florida waters was 44 pounds and 3 ounces and it was caught in Ft. Myers. The common snook is the largest of all of the snook species that lives in the Atlantic Ocean.
What’s the biggest cubera snapper ever caught?
124 pounds, 12 ounces
According to the International Game Fish Association, the All Tackle World Record was caught June 23, 2007 by angler Marion Rose on Garden Bank off Louisiana and weighed an incredible 124 pounds, 12 ounces. Kirkhart recently guided an angler to what is a pending IGFA line class world record for cubera snapper.
