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Posted on Apr 11, 2012 in Top Shots, trevally fishing
Biggest Trevally Ever Caught?
by Doug Olander
This picture may be worth 1,000 words, but is it also worth more than 160 pounds?
I admit to being a bit awestruck when i saw this little item from Down Under. Just sayin’ — THAT is one hell of a jack!
The IGFA all-tackle record giant trevally (largest of the jacks) weighed in at 160 pounds and change (caught in 2006 in Japan, believe it or not). Having caught GTs a third of that size, I can only shudder at the brute force that 160 pounds of pissed-off giant trevally would entail. Meow.....
So could the fish in this photo be larger than that? Hard to say, but this is how GTs are most often photographed -- a quick shot on the angler’s lap -- and I’d say a fish of 125 pounds or much larger would look like this one. No trick of the camera, I don’t think.
Since it came from Facebook with a trail impossible to follow to its origins, we may never know if it could have been larger than the world record or not. But no doubt there are trevally well over 160 pounds swimming around there.
I’d love to see one. But I’ll let someone else hook it.
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Hello,
I know this fisherman, he was one of my customer during the last season in Oman,
What i can say about this fish, it's that was a very very big one, around the 60 kilos, for 149 cm. It was a world record but a very nice fish very well shooted,
But also, during this week of fishing with this spanish group, we have touched two fishs which were more than probably world record,
The first one for a customer about 70 -75 kilos and the second one for me , came to take the stickbait at one meter of the boat, about 75-80 kilos. But the problem that these two fishs were very intelligent and have broken the line on the stone, 25 m deeper....
THANKS,
TOMY JOURNAUX
http://blackbass17.com
That fish was caught on Oman by a spanish angler call Alex Rios. You have the full article of the trip including that pict on a spanish magazine call Pesca y Barcos (number 34, sept-oct 2012).
Hey Guys, that fish was taken by Alex Rios (Spain)
according to his measurements we are looking at a 60kg fish.
Tl,
Steph