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

Armed with a Rapala Magnum lure while fishing Canada's East Bay, Christian LeVatte, of Sydney Forks, Nova Scotia, landed a striped bass (Morone saxatilis) on May 25, weighing 26.25 kg (57 lb 14 oz). It took the young man 30 minutes to land the fish for a possible boy's junior class record. The current boy's junior record is 57 lb 0 oz caught off Isabella Beach, NY 10 years ago. (Photo: striped bass - 28391)

Junior angler Weston Cordell Hardin, of Farmers Branch, Texas, USA, landed a smallmouth buffalo (Ictiobus bubalus) on June19. The youngster used chicken liver as bait to entice the fish that weighed 2.38 kg (5 lb 4 oz) while he was fishing Catfish Creek, in the Gus Engeling Wildlife Management Area at Tennessee Colony, Texas. If his record is approved Weston will be the first IGFA boy's junior class record holder for the species. (Photo: smallmouth buffalo ??? 08070004)

Another junior angler may be the first to capture a newly added species record. Ainsley Mignon Huizenga, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., USA, landed a gray snapper, (Lutjanus griseus) on June 17 weighing .91 kg (2 lb 0 oz) using cut tuna for bait while fishing Elbow Cay, Bahamas. She'll be the first species record holder in the female smallfry division if her record is approved. (Photo: gray snapper ??? 08070022)

From South America multi-record holder Gilberto Fernandes of Mao, AM, Brazil may have two more records. He first landed a barred sorubim (Pseudoplatystoma faciatum) on April 26 weighing 16.17 kg (35 lb 10 oz) while fishing the Amazon River using a small catfish for bait fighting the fish for 30 minutes. He 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 ??? 08050073)

Almost two months later Fernandes landed a sorubim (Pseudoplatystoma spp.) on June 23 that may almost double the current line class record. The fish caught on 3 kg (6 lb) class line off Parana do Cambixe, Brazil weighed 13 kg (28 lb 10 oz). The current IGFA record is 15 lb 11 oz caught in Ratchaburi, Thailand last year. (Photo: sorubim ??? 28343)

Guided by Ricky Turner while fly fishing Bayou DuLarge, Louisiana, USA, on July 14, Stephan Robert of Houma, La., landed a sizable black drum (Pogonias cromis). Using a custom crab for a fly tied to 1 kg (2 lb) tippet, he landed the 8.33 kg (18 lb 6 oz) fish. The current men's 2 lb tippet record is 12 lb 4 oz caught in 1994 from the Banana River off Cocoa Beach, Fla. USA. (Photo: black drum ??? 28341)

On July 10, Maureen Klause, of Ocean City, N.J., USA, brought in a bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) weighing 36.57 kg (80 lb 10 oz) on 8 kg (16 lb) class line. She was guided by Robert J. Ogden using a butterfish for bait in the 32 minute fight while fishing 19 Fathom Lump off the Delaware coast. Ocean City's Twin Wrecks off Maryland's coast is the location for the current women's 16 lb line class record of 65 lb caught in 2000. (Photo: bluefin tuna - 28385)

Fishing Papua New Guinea's Pandy River, Kazuhiro Uyama, of Toyko, Japan, guided by Jacob Kankia, landed a Papuan black snapper, (Lutjanus goldiei) on June 4. Caught on a Rapala Skeeter Popper the fish weighed 10.05 kg (22 lb 2 oz) on 24 kg (50 lb) class line. The current IGFA record for the species is 12 lb 8 oz caught on the Fly River of West Province Papua New Guinea two years ago. (Photo - Papuan black snapper ??? 08060041)

Fishing Heguyajima Island, Japan, Ryushiro Omote, of Ishikawa-Ken, Japan, took 15 minutes to land a madai (Pagrus major) on June 7, weighing 7.54 kg (16 lb 9 oz) on 8 kg (16 lb) class line. He was using a shrimp for bait. The current IGFA men's line class record is 13 lb 13 oz recorded in Nakadomari, Aomori, Japan in 2005. (Photo: madai ??? 28344)