Each month the world records department of the International Game Fish Association provides highlights of selected documented fish catches made across the globe submitted for world records. A couple of young anglers lead off the nine recent submissions that IGFA world records coordinator Rebecca Wright provided which are now before the world records committee.

As a young angler Amber M. Rooney, Wall Township, N.H., USA has jump-started her early love for fishing by landing a striper and possibly her first IGFA record. Using menhaden for bait while fishing New Jersey's Shark River and guided by Rory T. Rooney Jr. she landed the striped bass (Morone saxatilis) on June 10th weighing 22.23 kg (49 lb, 0 oz) for a possible female smallfry class record. She's hoping it beats the current IGFA record of 42 lb 9 oz caught off Long Beach, N.Y. last year. (Photo: striped bass - 08060035)

Another youngster Noah Amiel, of Richmond Hill, ON, Canada, landed a common carp (Cyprinus carpio) on May 17, weighing 13.15 kg (29 lb 0 oz) for possibly a new IGFA male smallfry record. He used corn for bait while fishing a lake in Toronto, Canada. The current record is 26 lb caught in the George's River N.S.W. Australia in June 2004. (Photo: common carp ??? 08070001)

Guided by Jason Pipe, it took just two minutes for Plantation, Fla. USA angler Gary Carter, to land an Atlantic blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) on June 4 weighing 161.93 kg (357 lb 0 oz) on men's 3 kg (6 lb) line class record. He was using mackerel for bait while fishing off La Gomera in the Canary Islands. The current IGFA record for the species was set in 2001 for a 336 lb caught off the Cape Verde Islands. (Photo: Atlantic blue marlin ??? 08060042)

Dave Speer, of Lewisville, Texas, USA hopes to be the first to have his name in the record books for catching a smallmouth buffalo (Ictiobus bubalus) on fly using 1 kg (2 lb) tippet. The fish which weighed 2.95 kg (6 lb 8 oz) on June 13 was caught on a sucker punch fly from the Elm Fork of Texas' Trinity River.(Photo: smallmouth buffalo ??? 08060043)

Fly fishing in Africa, Texas angler, Stan Nabozny of The Woodlands, USA, guided by Andrew Parsons, landed a ladyfish (Elops spp.) on June 3 weighing 4.42 kg (9 lb 12 oz). He used a clouser minnow on 8 kg (16 lb) tippet class fishing the Bazaruto Archipelago in Mozambique. The current men's IGFA tippet record of 5 lb 12 oz was caught last year near home Texas east coast at Port Isabel. (Photo: ladyfish ??? 08060046)

On June 11, Christine Perez, Mims, Fla., USA, guided by Capt Troy Perez, landed a 9.07 kg (20 lb 0 oz) red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) on 3 kg (6 lb) class tippet. It struck on a clouser and took Perez 30 minutes to land while fishing Buras, Louisiana, USA. Ms. Perez is hoping to beat her current IGFA women's 6 lb tippet fly record of an 18 lb red drum caught on Mosquito Lagoon, Fla., 10 years ago. (Photo: red drum ??? 08060052)

Auckland, New Zealander Guy Jacobsen, is hoping to beat a 25-year old light line record after catching a blue shark (Prionace glauca). Guided by John Batterton and using live mackerel for bait, it took Jacobsen 10 minutes to land the fish on May 31, which weighed 57.4 kg (126 lb 8 oz) on 1 kg (2 lb) class line. The current IGFA line record is 119 lb caught off Shinnecock, Long Island, NY in 1983. (Photo: blue shark ??? 08070002)

Lake Deifenbaker in Canada has been the site of many IGFA freshwater records and Cory James McLachlan, Outlook, Saskatchewan, may have landed another one with a 15.93 kg (35 lb 2 oz) rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) on May 3. McLauhlan used 15 kg (30 lb) class line with herring for bait and took 10 minutes to land the fish. The current record is 31 lb 6 oz caught in Lake Michigan off Wheaton, Illinois 15 years ago. (Photo: rainbow trout ??? 28369)

While fishing the Amazon River, Brazilian angler Gilberto Fernandes, of Mao, AM, landed a barred sorubim (Pseudoplatystoma faciatum) on April 26 weighing 16.17 kg (35 lb 10 oz). He used a small catfish for bait and fought the sorubim for 30 minutes. Fernandes has applied for an IGFA All-Tackle class record that could replace the Sept. 2000 record for a catch of a 29 lb 12 oz specimen from the Kuluene River in Brazil. (Photo: barred sorubim ??? 08070023)