While fishing with local guide Al Keller in Hopedale, Louisiana, USA on November 3rd, angler Meredith J. McCord caught and released the potential new women’s 6 kg (12 lb) tippet class record for black drum (Pogonias cromis). French angler Guillaume Fourrier may have potentially broken the 
men’s 4 kg (8 lb) line class record for European bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) – a record that has stood for 25 years! Fourrier was casting Daiwa swimbait.
