Jon Schwartz kayak fishes for the most powerful game fish in the world: Marlin & Tuna. In 2003, he caught a Blue Marlin off the East Cape of Baja, California. The fish was so powerful that it towed him across the sea for an hour! That same year, he caught a 111-pound Tuna off the Kona Coast that nearly capsized his kayak. Incredibly, Schwartz was able to land the fish single-handedly from his kayak. (See photos of the battle at www.incrediblefishingstories.com)

In 1993, seven year old Couger Elfervig was waiting for his dad to fuel their boat at Lake Powell's Bullfrog Marina when he decided to bait his hook & drop it in the water. He didn't expect the largest Carp ever caught in Utah waters to take the bait. For 15 minutes, Couger fought the record fish while his mother & sister kept him from falling off the dock. He landed the fish, but the scales were closed that day. After being kept in a cooler overnight, the big fish was weighed. The 30 pound Carp was the new state record, which still remains unbeaten.

When Dan Droessler, a Platteville, Wisconsin, police officer, went canoeing on Twin Valley Lake, the last thing he expected was to land a tiger muskie. He wasn't even fishing that day. Droessler was relaxing with his foot in the water when the 3-foot muskie spotted his shiny anklet & attacked. Droessler pulled his foot into the canoe along with the gnashing muskie, & then went to the hospital where it took sixty stitches to close the wound. Ironically, the Department of Natual Resources confiscated the fish becasue it was under the legal size limit & was also caught illegally. Droessler has applied for a special permit to get the fish, which was placed in a county freezer.

During a 2008 largemouth bass tournament, one bigger fish proved wilier than most. After taking the lure in its mouth, the 6-pounder flipped airborne & snapped the anglers line. Ten minutes later, the bass surfaced in the nearby reeds & spit the lure, which clung to the floating reeds. The angler netted the lucky lure & a fish story to last a lifetime.

Ever heard of a burrfish? Two of the three all tackle world records were caught in American waters. The largest is the spotted burrfish, which weighed 13 pounds, 12 ounces & was landed off Haulover, Florida. The other is the striped burrfish, which weighed 1 pound, 6 ounces & was landed off Deleware Bay, New Jersey.

Is there really such a thing as a hermaphrodite fish? Well, sort of. Scientists studying Potomac River smallmouth bass have discovered industrial pollutants have added sex organs to the fish. The culprit is human estrogen in sewage that enters the river system. Perhaps we should worry about the effect these pollutants may have on the area's drinking water. Gulp.