Kirk Lombard is the pending current record-holder of the largest monkeyface eel ever caught on hook and line.


Official certification from the state of California.
This document, now framed, hangs proudly in the author's study.



Lombard shatters previous record by nearly 33%.


Any letter from a museum starting with "This is to acknowledge receipt of your large" is worth keeping.

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.

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