This October, the Greenwich Workshop Press will publish BIG: The 50 Greatest World Record Catches, a fascinating salute to the sportsmanship of dedicated fishermen, the history of big-game angling and the fine art that brings it alive. Artist Flick Ford and International Game Fish Association (IGFA) historian Mike Rivkin have combined to tell the stories of fifty of the most amazing record fish catches from around the world, selected for their sheer size, popularity, beauty and classic record story. Through species research and archival photography, renowned artist Flick Ford reconstructs a portrait of each record catch as it would have looked emerging from the water.

The incredible stories range from Dr. John Cook's legendary and still-standing 1916 brook trout record to fifteen-year-old Sara Hayward of Texas, whose wahoo catch was an astonishing thirty pounds bigger than the previous record. World record catches are compelling for the normalcy of the settings, a day like any other, the usual bait, and the muttered promise of "just one more cast."

Author Mike Rivkin is a retired catalogue publisher widely recognized for his spirited and successful copywriting. He is also a veteran offshore angler, Past President of the venerable Tuna Club of Santa Catalina Island, and has served as an International Game Fish Association International Representative.

Mike has written extensively on the history of angling, including the widely acclaimed books Big-Game Fishing Headquarters: A History of the IGFA and Angling and War: The Collision of Big-Game Fishing and WWII. On the water, he has caught every type of marlin that swims, including a 1,226-pound black marlin taken off Australia in 1984. Today Mike lives in La Jolla, California with his wife and three children and plies the nearby Pacific waters on his boat Silverfish.

Artist Flick Ford studied art for ten years and then dove into New York indie film, publishing, illustration and music. Since the early 1990s he has been painting fish. Concern about the effects of pollution, over-development, and acid rain in the Northeast inspired him to keep a record of the fish he caught. Flick's first book, FISH: 77 Great Fish of North America (Greenwich Workshop Press) was published in 2006 to wide acclaim, including the bronze Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) for best coffee table book. His detailed watercolor portraits of fish are widely exhibited and sought by collectors. Today he lives on the Hudson River outside Albany, New York. He ties his own flies and fishes more than 100 days a year.

George Reiger is Conservation Editor of Salt Water Sportsman as well as Conservation Editor Emeritus of Field & Stream. He has fished throughout the Pacific Basin from Alaska to Australia; and in the Atlantic, from Nova Scotia to South Africa. His books on fish and fishing include Profiles in Saltwater Angling, The Bonefish, Silver King, and The Striped Bass Chronicles. His ecological tour of the Atlantic Coast, Wanderer On My Native Shore, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction.