This list of the most recent world record catch photos popped into my inbox the other day, courtesy of the International Game Fish Association. For those not familiar with the IGFA, they're the official keeper of fish records (including line-class records) from around the world.

Looking at this got me wondering about people that qualify for line-class records without knowing what they've caught. Me included. Take that giant bluegill I landed last summer on 4-pound-test mono. Was that fish a record? I'll probably never know, but I bet lots of you can recall similar catches.

Take a look for yourselves by clicking through the photos at left. Maybe you'll see one and say, "hey, I've caught bigger." Maybe you'll learn about some gamefish species you never knew existed. Perhaps this will inspire you to keep tabs on the leaderboard so you can find your name on it some day.

We'll start with this All-Tackle World Record arawana captured in November, 2007, by angler Johnny Hoffman in Brazil. It weighed 25 pounds, 5 ounces and came out of the Araca River.