Welcome to the website of Kirk Lombard, pending current record-holder of the largest monkeyface eel ever caught on hook and line. New: Kirk is blogging most days at monkeyfacenews.typepad.com. Get thee hence! Documentation to support Lombard's claim is viewable in the gallery. Lombard is also a professional songwriter, tuba player, harmonicist, puppeteer, builder of custom musical instruments, singer, actor, published author, Arm Chair Geographer, Fisheries Technician for the California Department of Fish and Game, founding member of internationally renowned musical ensemble Rube Waddell. For speaking engagements, poke poling seminars, sea shanty singalongs, eel inquiries, or a subscription to the Monkey Face News—Lombard's hand-crafted, eelskin-bound compendium of fish stories, sea shanties, eel facts and oceanic oddities (including a full-length audio CD of the Armchair Geographers' ribald whaling ditties)—contact Kirk via email.