CHANGES TO RECOGNIZED GAME FISH SPECIES
Eligible Game Fish Species
The IGFA maintains All-Tackle world
records for thousands of different species, however only certain game
fish species are eligible for the additional line class, tippet class
(fly rod), and Junior Angler world record categories. In
an effort to better recognize premier game fish species around the
world that merit having line classes, the IGFA will no longer be
accepting line class, tippet class (fly rod), and Junior Angler world
records on the 45 species of freshwater and saltwater fish listed
below:
Freshwater: rock bass,
shoal bass, white bass, yellow bass, bluegill, black bullhead, brown
bullhead, yellow bullhead, burbot, white catfish, black crappie, white
crappie, freshwater drum, Florida gar, shortnose gar, spotted gar,
oscar, European perch, white perch, yellow perch, chain pickerel, red
piranha, shorthead redhorse, silver redhorse, sauger, American shad,
hickory shad, splake, green sunfish, redbreast sunfish, redear sunfish,
tench, warmouth, lake whitefish, mountain whitefish, round whitefish
Hardly matters though.