A lovely 16-pound, 10-ounce golden trevally [a] is now the pending small-fry record for 10-year-old Jessica Hornhardt of Karratha in Western Australia. The young angler required 1¼ hours to land the tough trevally this past January. Currently, a 15-pound, 13-ounce golden holds the female small-fry record.
The 6-pound, 11-ounce Spanish mackerel [b] that struck a jig fished off Islamorada, in the Florida Keys, by 10-year-old Leah Hill of Crosby, Texas, is pending as the small-fry record. If approved, it will best a 5-pound, 8-ounce record Spanish.
An amazing 7-pound, 8-ounce spotted unicornfish [c] (of the tropical family of surgeonfishes) grabbed the squid bait that Steve Wozniak of Alamo, California, fished off Kona, Hawaii, this past March. Pending as the all-tackle record, it nearly doubles the existing record of 4 pounds,…
