The International Game Fish Association provides monthly highlights of selected documented fish catches made from across the globe submitted for world records. Rebecca Wright the IGFA's world records coordinator provided the following information on these 11 recent submissions now before the world records review committee.

Japanese angler Noboru Shinagawa, of Oki-Gun, Shmane, landed an olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) on March 16, weighing 14.5 kg (31 lb 15 oz) for a potential IGFA All-Tackle record. Shinagawa was fishing Okinoshima, Japan using a Japanese jack mackerel for bait. The current record is 25 lb 2 oz caught two years ago in Jogashima Kanagawa, Japan. (Photo - olive flounder - 08050060)

Using smelt as bait while fishing Canada's Lake Deifenbaker, Sean Konrad, Saskatoon, SK, landed a burbot (Lota lota) on March 22, weighing 8.65 kg (19 lb 1 oz) for a pending record in the IGFA All-Tackle class. The current record is 18 lb 11 oz caught in Oct. 1996 in Angenmanalren, Sweden. (Photo ??? burbot - 08050080A)

The same Lake Deifenbaker may produce another record for a catch made May 20 by Aaron Wiebe, Howden, MB, Canada, who landed a rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). It took Wiebe nine minutes to land using a night crawler for bait on 6 kg (12 lb) class line. The fish weighed 16.27 kg (35 lb 14 oz). The current record is 33 lb 6 oz pulled from the same lake July 2006. (Photo ??? rainbow trout - 08060013)

Another body of water holding records is Nevada's (USA) Pyramid Lake where Marvin Green, Porterville, Calif., USA, was fly fishing and landed a cutthroat trout, (Oncorhynchus clarki) on April 21. Caught with a whooly bugger using 6 kg (12 lb) tippet the fish weighed 5.02kg (11 lb 1 oz). It took green 12 minutes to land. The current IGFA fly record is 10 lb 0 oz from the same lake in Feb. 1990. Pyramid holds six of the seven tippet records for the species. (Photo ??? cutthroat trout - 08060010)

Botswana angler Bill Staveley, of Gaborone, fishing local waters landed a sharptooth catfish, (Clarias gariepinus) on May 2, weighing 4.31 kg (9 lb 8 oz). He was using 10 kg (20 lb) class line and a worm for bait. Staveley holds four current records and may have a fifth for the species. The current line class mark is 3 lb 2 oz taken from Botswana's Notwane Dam, in April of 2003. (Photo - sharptooth catfish - 08050084)

An experience he'll treasure for a lifetime and a possible world record to prove it was Sean Mendonoca's catch of a 403.7 kg (890 lb 0 oz) Atlantic blue marlin (Makaira nigricans). Fishing his home West Indies waters off Trinidad and Tobago, the junior angler from Westmoorings, Trinidad, guided by Moe Lloyd, landed the billfish on April 5 after a one hour 25 minute fight using a plug with flying fish for bait. The current men's junior class record is 815 lb 11 oz, caught off Funchal, Maderia, Portugal in August 1997. (Photo ??? Atlantic blue marlin - 08050086)

While fishing Zancudo, Costa Rica, and guided by John Olson, Cedar Park, Texas USA angler Karrie A. Ables, landed a star studded grouper (Epinephilus nipholbles) on March 8, weighing 11.34 kg (25 lb 0 oz). She was using cut squid for bait and fought the fish for 20 minutes for what could be a potential IGFA All-Tackle class record. The current record of 21 lb 0 oz was caught last year in the same Costa Rican waters. (Photo - star studded grouper -- 08050095)

A potential IGFA All-Tackle class record is being considered for a queen snapper (Etelis oculatus) that Christopher B. Cortez, Wellington, Fla., USA, landed on May 11, weighing 6.97 kg (15 lb 6 oz). Cortez was guided by J. D. Ferrin, using a Williamson Benthos Speed jig for bait while fishing off Long Key, Florida. The current IGFA record for the species was set in March 2006, weighing 14 lb, 0 oz, off Key Largo, Fla. (Photo ??? queen snapper -- 08060006)

They're also known as a common sea trout, a grey trout or a summer trout but for one young angler the weakfish (Cynoscion regalis) he caught could be a new record. Fishing Great Kills, New York, USA, Michael Byrne, of Staten Island, N.Y., guided by Steve M. Byrne, landed one weighing 6.58 kg (14 lb 8 oz) on May 26, using a Bucktail with a pork rind for bait. The current IGFA record in the boy's smallfry division is 11 lb 15 oz, caught in Barnegat Bay, N.J. May, 2005. (Photo ??? weakfish -- 08060009)

In his quest for another yellow bullhead (Ameiurus natalis) record Roger Aziz Jr., Methuen, Mass., USA, landed the species on May 25, weighing 2.83 kg (6 lb 4 oz) on 3 kg (6 lb) class line. He used a sunfish for bait, fishing nearby Forrest Lake. The current record, over 30 years old is 3 lb 0 oz caught on Wisconsin's Nelson Lake, May 1977. Aziz already holds records for the species in the 8 and 12 lb line classes. (Photo ??? yellow bullhead ??? 08060014)

If approved a recent catch of a silver eye (Polymixia Japonica) will be a new addition to the All-Tackle Species section of the IGFA World Record Game Fishes book. While fishing Oshima, Japan, and using cut squid for bait, Kenji Kaneshin, of Koto-Ku Tokyo, guided by Hiroyuki Maruyama, landed the fish on May 18 weighing 1.3 kg (2 lb 13 oz) cut squid for bait,. (Photo ??? silver eye ??? 08060015)