How freakin cool is this??? two of my fish I have caught here are World Records!!! Below is the e-mail I recieved… I guess I am almost as cool as ScottyD now here are the fish
Mangar, 34"
Aspirus Vorax, 25"
Dear Mr. Bergmann,
due to our worldwide network these are the facts:
your Mangar catch is a world record on fly rod
your Aspius vorax catch is the all tackle world record, as we have never read about a rod & reel catch of this species
We will integrate your Aspius vorax catch in our website.
If you are interested in an official certificate please contact www.igfa.org, the official world record committee.
Beside, in some weeks there will be a complete relaunch of our website. With photos of 250+ world record catches.
So please forward our website to other interested angler in Iraq.
Thanks guys! I am hoping that in the hopefully month I have left I bust those records out of the water This is a first for me and I haven’t quit grinnin all day! I am going out tomorrow morning to a place I found that has fish bigger than these swimmin around… been throwin at them for a couple weeks and nuttin but I did get a few to turn at a fly so I have tweaked my patterns and I’m gettin back on 'em… All the flies I planned on tying for back home have falen off to the side as I keep tweaking the ones I have to try and get these bigguns to hit… I better figure it out soon… I am running low on tying supplies Looking forward to getting home and stalking some reds with the fly rod… I dream about it every night… My wife would be pissed but in my dreams she is polling on the platform for me and runnin the boat
As a Viet vet, let me say love ya’ man. I’ll pay air freight for those tying supplies, so you can chase those fish, and the record. I especially love that dream, man; I remember those combat dreams, awesome stuff when your mind is so alert, and running 24/7. Keep posting, and also give us personal reports how you are doing over there, we DO care…