Records & Rarities

In Corey Sexton’s nearly two decades of guiding, he had never seen anything like the piebald cow elk that stepped into view while glassing this fall. But getting close enough to shoot this uniquely-colored elk would prove more difficult than expected. Sexton started guiding at Land of Enchantment...

A hunter in Ohio took down a massive 12-point whitetail in October of this year, and recently released scoring indicates it’s one for the record books. Scorers with Buckmasters Whitetail Trophy Records (BTR) measured Jason Thomas’s enormous typical buck at 208 ⅝”, which makes it the new Buckmasters...

Tommy Eidson has seen the white underbelly of enough deer to know instantly when its private parts don’t match its skull cap. And so this western Washington (state) hunter stood in disbelief after rolling a mature black-tailed buck onto its back for field dressing and saw an adult doe’s...

Some rivers are known to hold record fish—and the Clearwater in Idaho is one of them. In October, the river kicked out both a state record steelhead and a coho salmon, just a few days apart. Both anadromous (ocean-going) species make spawning migrations up the Columbia and Snake Rivers before...

How much would you pay to hunt any season, any weapon, any species? Your dream hunt, dream unit, and all the time in the world to get it done. $10,000? $50,000? Try $370,000. That’s how much the state of Oregon received this year after a “governor’s” tag auction for a coveted sheep tag. Most western...

Last weekend, a Maryland boat’s 640-pound blue marlin earned its anglers the biggest cash prize of any fish in history. Over $10 million was up for grabs at the 50th Annual White Marlin Open in Ocean City, Maryland, but anglers were having a tough time landing fish that met the 114-inch minimum...

A home security video taken yesterday in Omaha, Nebraska, appears to show a mountain lion walking down a residential street. The 16-second clip shows the big cat calmly pacing down a sidewalk at night while a thunderstorm lights up the night sky. Posted by Tik Tok user “Nebraska Eddie,” the video...

Part of what draws us to fishing is the idea that each time we feel a tug, we never know if the fish of a lifetime might be on the other end of our line. This past Monday, May 22, full-time Muskogee fireman and fishing guide Ryan Davison landed what may just be his fish of a lifetime. Davison runs...

Two anglers released a bull trout earlier this month that almost certainly would have broken Oregon’s state bull trout record and may have been big enough for a new world record. Ryan Mejaski and Joe Wilhite were fishing on the Deschutes arm of Lake Billy Chinook when Mejaski cast his lure into a...