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FRESH WATER FISH - RECORDS

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Forty-pounds, four ounces -- a quarter pound heavier than a sack of topsoil you'd pick up down at your local garden supply shop. It was caught on a 1/32oz olive green maribou jig and was fought with an ultralight rod and reel loaded with 4lb test line. By Gregg Patterson) shows the big brown as well as Howard "Rip" Collins, the man who pulled it from the Little Red River near Swinging Bridge.

David Hayes, on a sunny afternoon in July of 1955, caught the biggest smallmouth bass to ever be brought in for weighing in the history of fishing records. While trolling a Model 300 Bomber along a stretch of Dale Hollow Lake he caught a smallmouth bass for the history books.
His catch obliterated a record that was in the high 8 pound range and even today outweighs its nearest competitor by over a pound.

World Record: 55 lbs. 1 ounce Germany

The World Record of 4 pounds 12 ounces was caught in Maine in 1949

Adam Konrad of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan caught a Rainbow Trout in Lake Diefenbaker on June 5th , 2007. The impressive trout weighed in at 43 lbs 6 ounces. It is a new World Record.
The fish will have to be tested to see if it's a pure bred or a genetically enhanced trout before it receives official World Record status.

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Ken Fraser and the all-tackle world record bluefin tuna. It weighed 1,496 lbs. and was caught off Nova Scotia in 1979.

A fisherman from Port Charlotte reeled in a hammerhead shark that was so big, it could be a new world sport fishing record, Mote Marine Laboratory reported Wednesday night.

It took Bucky Dennis of Port Charlotte five hours to land the beheamouth after it towed the fishing boat 12 miles from Boca Grande Pass.

Fishing for tarpon for the first time Max Domecq broke the 47 year old IGFA all tackle tarpon world record. The fish weighed in at 260 lbs.

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Brown Trout	Forty-pounds, four ounces -- a quarter pound heavier than a sack of topsoil you'd pick up down at your local garden supply shop. It was caught on a 1/32oz olive green maribou jig and was fought with an ultralight rod and reel loaded with 4lb test line. By Gregg Patterson) shows the big brown as well as Howard "Rip" Collins, the man who pulled it from the Little Red River near Swinging Bridge.	More
Small Mouth Bass	David Hayes, on a sunny afternoon in July of 1955, caught the biggest smallmouth bass to ever be brought in for weighing in the history of fishing records. While trolling a Model 300 Bomber along a stretch of Dale Hollow Lake he caught a smallmouth bass for the history books. His catch obliterated a record that was in the high 8 pound range and even today outweighs its nearest competitor by over a pound.	More
Catfish	CATFISH, Blue - 646 lbs a freshwater record Caught from the Mekong River, Thailand Home to more species of giant fish than any other river in the world	More
Lake Trout	1991 - 66 pounds, 8 ounces, caught in Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories. A 102- pound lake trout was taken in a gillnet in Lake Athabasca, Saskatchewan, in 1961.	More
Large Mouth Bass	Mac Weakley, caught a mammoth largemouth on tiny Dixon Lake in southern California that he and his longtime fishing partners Mike Winn and Jed Dickerson weighed out at 25.1 pounds on a hand-held digital scale.	More
Rock Bass	Weight: usually less than 1 lb. (World record is 3 lb. 10 oz.; Wisconsin record is 2 lb. 15 oz.)	More
Muskellunge	Muskellunge - 70 lb. 0 oz. Caught by: Robert Malo Caught near: Middle Eau Claire	More
Northern Pike	World Record: 55 lbs. 1 ounce Germany	More
Perch	The World Record of 4 pounds 12 ounces was caught in Maine in 1949
Pickerel or Walleye	Walleye 25lbs by Mabry Harper at Old Hickory Lake, TN August 2, 1960	More
Rainbow Trout	Adam Konrad of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan caught a Rainbow Trout in Lake Diefenbaker on June 5th , 2007. The impressive trout weighed in at 43 lbs 6 ounces. It is a new World Record. The fish will have to be tested to see if it's a pure bred or a genetically enhanced trout before it receives official World Record status.	More
Speckled Trout	Year:1915 Fisherman: Dr. JW Cook Where: McDonal Rapids (Rabbit Rapids), down from Virgin Falls, Nipigon River Weight: 14.5 pounds. Length: 34.5 inches. Depth: 11.5 inches.	More
Salmon	PA resident, Stephen M. Sheets Jr., may have broken the 10 year-old world record for coho salmon August 13, while fishing Lake Ontario out of the Oswego Marina. Sheets landed the 33-pound, 7-ounce coho while fishing on board Captain Mike Stilin's Katie Lynn of Fish Tale Charters.	More

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Blue Fin Tuna	Ken Fraser and the all-tackle world record bluefin tuna. It weighed 1,496 lbs. and was caught off Nova Scotia in 1979.	More
Hammer Head Shark	A fisherman from Port Charlotte reeled in a hammerhead shark that was so big, it could be a new world sport fishing record, Mote Marine Laboratory reported Wednesday night. It took Bucky Dennis of Port Charlotte five hours to land the beheamouth after it towed the fishing boat 12 miles from Boca Grande Pass.	More
Great White Shark	A replica of the world record winning great white shark caught by Frank Mundus..	More
Potato Cod	Cod, 98 lbs 12 ozs, Atlantic Isle of Shoals NH, June 8, 1969- Alphonse Bielevich	More
Sailfish	WORLD RECORD: 221 pounds (Indo-Pacific Sailfish	More
Mackerel	Current World-record narrow-barred Spanish mackerel 46 kilograms Dorre Island, Western Australia, July 18, 2004 by Greg Pickering	More
Swordfish	Swordfish, Broadbill - 1,182 lbs. May 7th 1953 Caught by Lou Marron Caught near: Iquique, Chile.	More
Tarpon	Fishing for tarpon for the first time Max Domecq broke the 47 year old IGFA all tackle tarpon world record. The fish weighed in at 260 lbs.	More