Top 10 Surfcasting Fish Worldwide

4

Snook

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World Record 53 lb 10 oz
Gilbert Ponzi / 1978
Parismina Ranch, Costa Rica

Signature Fact Born male, many later switch sex-so that 40-incher tugging back is almost certainly a she.

5

Bluefish

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World Record 31 lb 12 oz
James Hussey / 1972
Hatteras, North Carolina

Signature Fact They practice brutal "surplus killing": slashing dozens of baitfish even with bellies bulging to the gills.

6

COMING
SOON

Giant Queenfish

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World Record —

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7

Striped Bass (Striper)

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World Record 81 lb 14 oz
Gregory Myerson / 2011
Long Island Sound, Connecticut

Signature Fact Their eggs must stay drifting for about 48 hours-sink once, and the entire spawn suffocates.

8

Blacktip Shark

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World Record 270 lb 0 oz
Robert W. McCue / 1984
Bahamas

Signature Fact A captive female produced a pup without mating-documented parthenogenesis, nature's ultimate solo act.

9

California Corbina

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World Record 8 lb 7 oz
Robert R. Boudreau / 2001
California, USA

Signature Fact This croaker ditched a swim bladder, so it can't croak-just bulldogs the bottom like a sinking torpedo.

10

Great Barracuda

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World Record 103 lb 0 oz
Thomas Gibson / 2002
Lagos, Nigeria

Signature Fact Their strike reflex is so keyed to flash that shiny necklaces have literally been slashed off swimmers.