The catch of a giant shortraker rockfish this month off Alaska is a pending world record. The brightly colored fish, landed by Glenn Krieger out of Elfin Cove, weighed 44.8 pounds on a digital scale.

A giant python in South Sulawesi has turned a local encounter into an international record, and not just because of her size.

A fisherman on a long-range fishing trip out of San Diego hit the jackpot by landing a yellowfin tuna weighing a whopping 443 pounds, or 16 pounds more than the current world record for a yellowfin ...

Sharks rule the water in terms of sheer weight, but there are plenty of other big fish in (and excluded from) the record ...

Art Weston is no stranger to catching world record-size fish, with dozens of accolades in his name. But the Kentucky angler’s latest achievement, along with a “humanoid” creature he caught the day ...