Newly Approved IGFA World Records for May 2019
To see all newly approved IGFA World Records since April 21, 2019 please view this PDF.
![Payara 1](https://igfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Payara-1.jpg)
Cuentas’ Payara
Carolina Uribe Cuentas earned the new Women’s 8 kg (16 lb) Line Class World Record with this respectable 5.6-kilogram (12-pound 8-ounce) payara she caught while fishing the Manacacias River in Columbia. Carolina caught her fish while trolling and needed just four minutes to land the fish.
![amelia payara.jpg](https://igfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/amelia-payara.jpg.jpg)
Angel's Payara
Amelia Acevedo Angel also got in on the payara bite the same day as Carolina with a 4-kilogram (8-pound 15-ounce) fish that she caught while fishing Manacacias River in Columbia. She was trolling a Rapala Firetiger Shad Rap. Angel’s fish bested the existing record by nearly a kilogram to earn her the new Female Smallfry payara record.
![Jan tigerfish](https://igfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Jan-tigerfish.jpg)
Forszpaniak’s Tigerfish
While fishing the Zambezi River in Zambia, Africa, IGFA Representative Jan Forszpaniak caught this 7.4- kilogram (16-pound 8-ounce) tigerfish, which earned him the new Men’s 6 kg (12 lb) Line Class World Record for the species. To date, Jan has garnered 73 IGFA World Records for 18 different species of fish.
![Anais zander](https://igfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Anais-zander.jpg)
Mahut’s Zander
The Female Smallfry record for zander has fallen to Anais Mahut for a 2.1-kilogram (4-pound, 9-ounce) fish that she caught while casting a jig head/soft plastic combo in Spain's Garcia Sola Lake. This is Anais’s first IGFA World Record!
![Mertit rockfish](https://igfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Mertit-rockfish.jpg)
McCrea’s Brown Rockfish
Merit McCrea has broken the brown rockfish All-Tackle record with this 3-kilogram (6-pound 11-ounce) fish that he caught off Summerland, California. There are at least 108 confirmed species of rockfish (Sebastes spp.), which can make species identification problematic. Luckily, McCrea caught his fish on a research trip with four other biologists that are rockfish experts to help with the species identification.