Just as Missouri saw a proverbial changing-of-the-guard with its yellow perch state records in early 2020, West Virginia now follows suits. The Mountain State, however, isn’t producing new state record yellow perch. Instead, the “go-to” species for new records is the grass carp. We previously shared the story of the first new grass carp state …
Fishing State Records
When angler Samson Matthews hit the water on Monday, March 2nd, he and his friend we searching for blue catfish. The duo were fishing Marshyhope Creek, a tributary of the Nanticoke River in eastern Maryland. The creek runs between Kent County in Delaware and both Caroline and Dorchester Counties in Maryland. When the 22-year-old Matthews …
The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries announced via social media on February 3rd that the state had a new state record spotted bass. The new record, caught by Cliffton Joel Hamilton, was caught in January. He pulled his catch while fishing on Claytor Lake. Hamilton’s record weighed in at a respectable 4 pounds, …
The Granite State has a new state record lake trout. New Hampshire Fish and Game broke the story on February 28th. Thomas Knight of Meredith, New Hampshire, caught the record fish on Tuesday, February 25th. He was ice fishing on Big Diamond Pond in West Stewartstown. After landing a massive catch, Knight knew he may …
Where Can I Find the Best Fishing in Michigan So here’s a question: in a state with more than 11,000 lakes, how do you narrow that down to the top eight? Draw straws? Reader polls? Navigate through thousands of pages of historical data? In reality, there is a ton of subjectivity that goes into this …
By the time 2020 concludes, we may look back on this as the “Year of the Yellow Perch.” In addition to an angler catching the Maine state record yellow perch during her first time ice fishing, Missouri also claimed a new yellow perch record to kick off the year. That fish — weighing 1 pound, …