Any one holding any state records of a specific fish caught?

 

if no one holds state records what about personal records?

My PR for walleye is 27" and 6.6 lbs taken from Lake Erie

 

Last year I was fishing and had a monster Northern Pike on. He was bending my Ugly Stick medium weight rod in two. I fought him into the side of the boat and his head was humungous. As I reached with the net to grab him he did a quick side to side head slash and cut the line. It was then that I remembered to put on the steel leader. UGGGHHHH. Funny thing happened later that day. I pulled in a 9 inch smallmouth bass and as I was taking out my lure to let him go a little bluegill minnow jumped out of its mouth onto my hand. He must have just got swallowed. I let both go to continue their competition. I caught a 33" Northern Pike on Lake Hortonia, VT while I was waiting for everyone to come get in the boat to go out and troll. Second cast it hit my purple Rooster Tail. In the excitement I thought I could hook his lower lip by reaching over its teeth. I was wrong. Got 4 lacerations on both sides of my thumb. Sealed up really well with a bandage. I went into the general store on the lake and they had a 40" or so up on the wall. When the owner saw me admiring the trophy and my bandaged thumb I could tell he was wondering so I told him what I did. He said, "you'd fit in up here." Knowing I was going to be the brunt of his joke I asked, "why is that?" He said, "we're not only slow, we're stupid too." They had a good laugh. I did too. My son caught a 29" Northern on Lake Dunmore in VT.

 

nothing like a good fishing story. A bad day on the lake is always better than a good day at work.

 

Walleye--33 inches
Northern--36 inches
LM Bass--22 inches
Crappie--14 inches
Muskie--43 inches
Channel Cat--17 pounds
Mako Shark--125 pounds
Bluegill--9 inches

The walleye was close to a state record. The others were just nice fish.

 

a few years ago I was out in my brothers boat and was jigging for crappies in a shallow weedbed right next to a dropoff using 6 pound test and a crappy minnow all of a sudden it took off I set the drag real loose and kept playing it about 30 minutes later I got it to the boat it was a huge northern (in minnesota they have seasons and northerns were closed at that time) when I reached down to unhook it the line snapped on the bottom of the boat. the width was about 4-5 inches and the length was about 45 inches. I had several boats fishing around me they all pulled up anchor and came closer telling me they havent seen a northern that big in a long time.

 

I've got a couple piggy pigs in my day. I'm a huge fisherman, it's pretty much all I do other than ride!

46" Northern, St. Lawrence River


51" Musky, Lake Erie Tributary


49" Musky, Allegheny River

 

Nice fish

 

No but next year I'm going for the state record for Common Carp in PA!