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.

And if you ever get the chance to night dive Lake Pupuke you will be amazed at just how many perch there are. At night they just lie on the bottom right out in the open and its fun to play games with them. Swim up and touch their tails and they effectively do about 50cm diameter circle ending back where they started, must be a defense mechanism.  In a short half hour ight dive leaving from the pumphouse jetty and not going any deeper than about 15m we would commonly see around a thousand or so,average of 20cm. 

Almost Perch season for me,about to buy a half season licence and spend winter hauling perch out of the dozen or so lakes within 30 mins of Cambridge that hold them,and hitting the catfish once more. Good ole chicken livers are my fav bait for both.