In a story recently shared by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Maine has a new state record lake trout. Even more impressive than the catch, perhaps, is the fact that the record it displaced was over over sixty years old! A Once in a Lifetime Catch According to the release, Andover’s Erik …
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Any time a new state record fish is caught, there’s a newsworthy story. When that potential record happens to one of the largest freshwater fish caught in North America all year, that story becomes even more impressive. On the morning of July 6, 2020, rumor began circulating of a potential North Carolina state record blue …
Last month, a 34-year-old angler from Philadelphia hauled in the heaviest flathead catfish on record in Pennsylvania. On the evening of May 24, Jonathon Pierce was fishing the Schuylkill River at East Falls. According to the official press release from the Pennsylvania Pressroom, the record fish hit Pierce’s line around 8:30 p.m. that night. The …
When we looked at the list of state fishing records broken in 2019, we were excited to report that numerous fish had been caught by anglers in their teens or younger. Thirteen-year-old Isaac Vance landed a Utah state record golden trout. Sixteen-year-old Cole Abshere hauled in a Washington state record channel catfish. Perhaps the most …
As the old adage goes, records were made to be broken… On April 29th, the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks posted on Facebook that the state’s largemouth bass record had been broken. The new record catch was caught by Matthew Dunham on Indian Scout Lake. His record catch weighed in at 9 pounds, 5 …
While the world is practicing social distancing, a Post Falls, Idaho resident has earned himself an Idaho catch-and-release state record. On April 8, Sawyer Livesey pulled in his record-breaking bull trout (also known as a Dolly Varden) while fishing the Kootenai River. The fish measured in at 30.5 inches in length. The Idaho Department of …