Tigerfish from South Africa

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<td></td>Species: Tigerfish <br/>Angler: Shaka <br/>Friends: Boas(left) and Toms(right) <br/>Location: Cahorra Bassa Dam in Northern Mozambique (Southern Africa) <br/>Weight: 7 kg (~15.4 lbs) <td></td><td></td><img height="337" src="http://www.carpecarpio.com/ShakaTigerfish06.jpg" width="450" alt=""/><td></td>

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It weighed 7kg's and was caught using a shimano culcatta 250, shimano carbomax rod(7ft), 4kg Carpbuster line. Bait was the local baitfish (Capenta) rigged on a bass-worm hook casted and slowly retrieved. It took about 25minutes to land after it made some spectacular jumps - as high as 2 meters!!

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<center><b>154 lbs Mekong Giant Catfish from James</b></center><table cellspacing="5" width="500" align="center" border="0"><tbody><tr><td>Common Name: Mekong Giant Catfish <br/>Fish Weight: 154 lb <br/>Location: Bung Sam Lan Lake, Thailand <br/>Angler: James Heighes <br/>Home: Petersfield, Hampshire, UK <br/>Date: March 17, 2006 <br/>Guiding Team: Jean-Francois Helias' Fishing Adventures Thailand br&gt;<br/>Just a few words to inform you we had a tremendous Mekong giant catfish catch this morning (March 17, 2006) by a UK angler, by the name of James Heighes. <br/><br/>James (25 years old) is from Petersfield, Hampshire. He's mainly into carp fishing in his homecountry. He booked us for a single day fishing which turned out to be the kind of unforgettable one for a sport angler. <br/><br/>James hooked up and landed a 154 lb (70 kg) Mekong giant catfish after having fought it for an hour and a half. Unfortunately again, his catch cannot qualify for a IGFA world record though it was much larger than the current 63 kg IGFA All Tackle world record. The unstoppable giant catfish succeeded to entangle James' line around structures not less than three times during the battle. Rules were broken as we had to swim and touch rod, reel, and line to help freeing the snagged line out of the structures, so we could secure the catch. <br/>Jean-Franois Helias </td></tr><tr><td><img height="300" src="http://www.carpecarpio.com/JamesHeines154mekong0306.jpg" width="450" alt=""/></td></tr></tbody></table>

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<center><b>Barramundi from Austalia</b></center><table cellspacing="5" width="600" align="center" border="0"><tbody><tr><td>Species: Barramundi <br/>Angler: Blinky <br/>Location: Adelaide River. N.T. Australia <br/>Time: Build up to the Wet Season <br/>Length: 113 cm <br/>Weight: Unknown <br/>Released <br/>Tackle: Daiwa CV-Z 203A, Loomis CR722, 10 lb Platil Millennium braid, Reidy's Lure "Goulbourn Jack" </td><td><img height="300" src="http://www.carpecarpio.com/BlinkyBarra0605.jpg" width="400" alt=""/></td></tr></tbody></table>

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<center><b>165 lb Mekong - Thailand</b></center><table cellspacing="5" width="600" align="center" border="0"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td>Common Name: Mekong Giant Catfish <br/>Fish Weight: 165 lb <br/>Location: Bung Sam Lan Lake, Thailand <br/>Angler: Sandy Weed <br/>Home: Port Huron, MI <br/>Date: Nov 26, 2005 <br/>Guiding Team: Jean-Francois Helias' Fishing Adventures Thailand </td><td><img height="300" src="http://www.carpecarpio.com/SandyWeed75kgMekonggiantcatfishNov2605.jpg" width="450" alt=""/></td></tr></tbody></table>

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<center><b>77 lb "Pla Kang"</b></center><table cellspacing="5" width="500" align="center" border="0"><tbody><tr><td>Common Name : Hemibagrus wyckioides <br/>Local Name : Pla Kang or Pla Kot Ang Daeng <br/>Scientific name: Hemibagrus wyckioides <br/>Fish Weight: 35.00 kg (~77 lbs) <br/>Catch Place : Srinakarin Reservoir, Thailand <br/>Catch date : October 5, 2005 <br/>Angler's name: caught by a local commercial fisherman on a trotline <br/></td></tr></tbody></table><img height="333" src="http://www.carpecarpio.com/HemibagrusWyckioides35kgOct52005.jpg" width="438" alt=""/>

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<center><b>137 lbs Mekong Giant Catfish from Chicagoan Dale</b></center><table cellspacing="5" width="500" align="center" border="0"><tbody><tr><td>Common Name: Mekong Giant Catfish <br/>Fish Weight: 137 lb <br/>Location: Bung Sam Lan Lake, Thailand <br/>Angler: Dale Michell Rothschtein <br/>Home: Chicago, IL <br/>Date: Nov 24, 2004 <br/>Guiding Team: Jean-Francois Helias' Fishing Adventures Thailand <br/>Rod: Pro Kik custom built <br/>Reel: Shimano Baitrunner 6500 <br/>Line: PowerPro 80 lb </td></tr><tr><td><img height="375" src="http://www.carpecarpio.com/137lbMekongGiantCatfishDale1104.jpg" width="500" alt=""/></td></tr></tbody></table>

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<center><b>Mark with 106 lbs of Siamese Giant Carp</b></center><table cellspacing="5" width="600" align="center" border="0"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td>Common Name: Siamese Giant Carp <br/>Fish Weight: 106 lbs <br/>Date: November 9, 2004 <br/>Location: Bung Sam Lan Lake <br/>Angler: Mark Clark <br/>Home: UK <br/><br/>Here is a pic of a helluva Siamese Giant Carp catch weighting 106 lbs and caught on 9th November 2004 by our English client Mark Clark. He scored this tremendous catch on the 2d day of a 3 days fishing session at Bung Sam Lan Lake. A nice reward for his very first trip to Thailand! </td><td><img height="300" src="http://www.carpecarpio.com/106lbGiantCarpMarkClark1104.jpg" width="400" alt=""/></td></tr></tbody></table>

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<center><b>187 lbs of Mekong Giant Catfish</b></center><table cellspacing="5" width="600" align="center" border="0"><tbody><tr><td>Common Name: Mekong Giant Catfish <br/>Fish Weight: 187 lb <br/>Location: Thailand <br/>Angler: Dennis Tang <br/>Home: Singapore </td><td><img height="292" src="http://www.carpecarpio.com/DTang85kgMekongGiantCatfish04.jpg" width="375" alt=""/></td></tr></tbody></table>

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<center><b>Samantha with a Tigerfish and friend with a Banana fish in Guyana</b></center><table cellspacing="5" width="600" align="center" border="0"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td>Common Name: Tigerfish, or short headed culit <br/>Scientific name: Pseudoplatystoma tigrinum <br/>Fish Weight: ? <br/>Location: Rewa River, Guyana (South America) <br/>Angler: Samantha James </td></tr></tbody></table><img height="200" src="http://www.carpecarpio.com/SamanthaJamesTigerfish04.jpg" width="279" alt=""/>