Ep. 889: The Boss of All Fishing Records
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We are the world's keeper of records. Yeah. There are a lot of entities out there that keep records, whether it be state or, you know, there's freshwater fishing hall of fame, but you know, in terms of the world's keeper of records, it's, it's the IGFA for sure.
Yeah. And you guys traditionally were saltwater.
But you now do the freshwater too. We were. So we were founded in 1939. And really the genesis of our organization is at that point, there were a couple of other big time angling clubs out there, but there was no universal code of angling rules, so to speak. So if you're fishing in Australia and I'm fishing in New Zealand or wherever, and we're fishing for the same fish, you catch a fish one size, I catch one another. There was no really way to compare performance. Um, and so that led into us becoming a record keeping body. And like you said, we were saltwater for a long time, but what would happen over time, um, we transitioned into freshwater and fly fishing as well. We picked up the, uh, freshwater records from field and stream in the 1970s.
Yeah.
What, what part of, cause you know, field and stream is a weird deal where all these different entities own all these different rights to the name. Right. So if Field and Stream had the record, what portion of Field and Stream held freshwater records?
I don't know. This is before my time. This is, I think, 1974 or something like that. I can't remember exactly. It was the year I was born, man. It was two years before me. I mean, I was born in 72. But anyways, we took them over. Field and Stream said, hey, we have a deal for you. We've been keeping these since the 1800s. Our oldest record, I think, on the books is a yellow perch caught in
1880 something in new jersey oh so that must have been like field and stream the magazine in the magazine you know if you go into some store and you see like a field and stream canoe yeah you know i mean exactly they just they've sold off over the years all these different rights to the name and so i didn't know if where the fact i didn't know that even had freshwater records yeah so we took it over from field and stream they like handed you the papers they said here
do with it. And that we, we must've done some kind of vetting process on the, on the records there. And then, um, that, that included freshwater fly fishing as well. And then the two years later, the salty fly rodders, which was an entity that was, you know, really on the cusp of this emerging new sport, you know, catching saltwater fish and saltwater fish on fly. They had started to create their own set of rules. Mark Sosin and Stu at two luminaries there.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:42
2
What is the history and significance of the IGFA?
4:42–8:58
3
How does the IGFA contribute to fish conservation efforts?
8:58–18:29
4
What innovative technologies are used for fish tracking?
18:29–28:35
5
How does the IGFA validate fishing records?
28:35–1:23:13