Here are the monthly highlights from the world records department of the International Game Fish Association of selected documented fish catches made across the globe submitted for world records. The IGFA world records coordinator Rebecca Reynolds-Wright provided the following information on these 11 recent submissions before the world records committee.

Using a lure while fishing the Situk River, Alaska, USA, 11-year old Nicole Loffredo, of Anchorage landed a rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus, mykiss) on 10 kg (20 lb) line for both a pending line class and female junior record. The fish took 15 minutes to capture and weighed 6.12 kg (13 lb 8 oz). She released the fish caught on April 21 of this year. (Photo: rainbow trout - 07040042)

Also up for an IGFA junior record is Yukio Takata, 11, of Tottori, Japan, who landed a snakehead, (Channa, spp.) while fishing Japan's Saga Creek using a spinner bait. The fish weighed 5.05 kg (11 lb 2 oz). He released the fish after documenting the catch on April 27. (Photo: snakehead - 07050024)

Another 11-year old, Heather Michelle Harkavy, Coral Springs, Fla., USA, landed a speckled peacock, (Cichla, temensis) weighing 6.35 kg 14 lb 0 oz while trolling near the Rio Negro Lodge, in Brazil. Using a Bill Elliott fly she caught the fish on February 7 and then released it after authenticating the catch for a potential junior female record. (Photo: speckled peacock - 07050007)

Using skipjack tuna for bait while trolling along Kona, Calif., Janet Bekins Martic, of Hillsborough, Calif., USA, landed a yellowfin tuna, (Thunnus, albacares) weighing 60.32 kg (133 lb 0 oz). The catch made on May 4 took Ms. Martic 67 minutes to bring in and is up for a women's 8 kg (16 lb) line class record. (Photo: yellowfin tuna ??? 07050013)

Using a nymph, Toshiyuki Matsumoto, Tokyo, Japan, landed a Pacific redfin, (Tribolodon) weighing 2 kg (4 lb 7 oz) while fishing Japan's Tama River. The catch made on April 22 and then released is up for an all-tackle record. (Photo: Pacific redfin ??? 07050023)

Shiro Taya, Okinawa, Japan, landed an oxeye tarpon (Megalops, cyprinoides) while fly fishing with a streamer fly at Uruma, Japan. The tarpon, caught April 20 weighed 1.8kg (3 lb 15oz). Taya is up for a men's 8 kg (16 lb) tippet record. The fish was released. (Photo: oxeye tarpon - 07050025)

Jean-Francois Helias, of Bangkok, Thailand, landed a blotched snakehead (Channa, lucius) while fishing Thailand's Cheow Lan Reservoir, May 1 for a potential all-tackle record. He used a Rapala X Rap to catch the fish that weighed 1.85 kg (4 lb 1oz). (Photo: blotched snakehead ??? 07050031)

With 1 kg (2 lb) class line it took two hours for Rebecca Reynolds-Wright, Hollywood, Fla., USA, to pull in a whaler shark, (Carcharhinidae, family) using cut bait while fishing Content Key, Fla. The lemon shark caught on May 13, weighed11.11 kg (24 lb 8 oz) and was later released. (Photo: whaler shark ??? 07050040)

After a 41 minute fight Ocean City, New Jersey's Maureen Klause, landed a black drum (Pogonias, cromis) weighing 28.91 kg (63 lb 12 oz) on May 22, while bottom fishing along Delaware Bay, N.J., USA. She used a clam for bait on 3 kg (6 lb) class line. (Photo: black drum ??? 07050044)

Casting a sardina to entice his quarry and after a 45 minute fight, Gary R. Von Husen, Lake Worth, Fla., USA, landed a Pacific snook, (Centropomus, spp.) weighing 23.6 kg (52 lb 0 oz) while fishing the Rio Saverge, in Costa Rica on May 3. He's applied for the men's 24 kg (50 lb) line class record. (Photo: Pacific snook - 07050051)

With a 4 kg (8 lb) tippet, Michael Romano, Hudson, Ohio, USA landed a silver redhorse, (Moxostoma, anisurum) weighing 1.9 kg (4 lb 4 oz) while fly fishing the Muskegon River, Ohio on April 23. He used a beadhead peacock and after tussling with the fish for seven minutes and authenticating he released it. (Photo: silver redhorse - 07050005)