California Fishing Records

Fish - Weight - Place - Name of Record Holder - Date

Albacore Tuna 90 lbs 0 oz Santa Cruz Don Giberson 10/21/1997

American Shad 7 lbs 5 oz Feather River Craig Stillwell 5/9/1985

Arctic Grayling 1 lbs 12 oz Lobdell Lake Don Acton Jr. 8/27/1974

Bigeye Tuna 240 lbs 0 oz Butterfly Bank Steve Hutchinson 8/1/1997

Black Crappie 4 lbs 1 oz New Hogan Lake Wilma L. Honey 3/29/1975

Black Rockfish 9 lbs 2 oz S. F. Light Station Trent Wilcox 9/3/1988

Blue Catfish 101 lbs 0 oz San Vicente Reservoir Roger A. Rohrbouck 3/12/2000

Blue Marlin 692 lbs 0 oz Balboa A. Hamann 8/13/1931

Blue Rockfish 3 lbs 14 oz San Carpoforo Terry Lamb Jr. 10/14/1993

Bluefin Tuna 243 lbs 11 oz 277 Spot Karl E. Schmidbauer 9/8/1990

Bluegill Sunfish 3 lbs 8 oz Lower Otay Reservoir Davis Buckhanan 7/10/1991

Bocaccio Rockfish 17 lbs 8 oz Point St Georges Reef Sam Strait 10/25/1987

Brook Trout 9 lbs 12 oz Silver Lake Texas Haynes 9/9/1932

Brown Trout 26 lbs 8 oz Upper Twin Lake Danny Stearman 4/30/1987

Bull Trout 9 lbs 11 oz McCloud Lake James S. McCloud 5/1/1968

Bullhead 4 lbs 8 oz Trinity Lakes Gary Dittenbir 10/7/1993

Canary Rockfish 6 lbs 15 oz Usal Beach Kevin Kerns 9/30/2001

Carp 52 lbs 0 oz Nacimiento Lake Lee Bryant 4/1/1968

Channel Catfish 52 lbs 10 oz Santa Ana River Lakes Lee Porter 7/12/1993

Chinook (King) Salmon 88 lbs 0 oz Sacramento River O.H. Lindberg 11/21/1979

Coho Salmon 22 lbs 0 oz Paper Mill Creek Milton T. Hain 1/3/1959

Copper Rockfish 8 lbs 3 oz Pigeon Point Kenny Aab 8/18/1985

Cutthroat Trout 31 lbs 8 oz Lake Tahoe William Pomin 1911

Flathead Catfish 72 lbs 14 oz Colorado River Billy Potter 4/22/2003

Golden Trout 9 lbs 8 oz Virginia Lake O.A. Benefield 8/18/1952

Green Sunfish 1 lbs 12 oz private pond near Bella Vista unknown 6/3/1978

Kokanee Salmon 4 lbs 13 oz Lake Tahoe Dick Bournique 8/1/1973

Lake Trout 37 lbs 3 oz Lake Tahoe Robert G. Aronsen 6/21/1974

Largemouth Bass 21 lbs 12 oz Lake Castaic Michael Arujo 3/5/1991

Ling Cod 56 lbs 0 oz Crescent City Carey Mitchell 7/12/1992

Mountain Whitefish 3 lbs 1 oz 20" Lake Tahoe Gregg Harris 1/24/2004

Olive Rockfish 5 lbs 14 oz St. Augustine Reef Haady Forbes 11/21/1991

Orangemouth Corvina 37 lbs 0 oz Salton Sea Dick Van Dam 7/15/1988

Pumpkinseed Sunfish 1 lbs 0 oz Mt. Meadows Reservoir Dave Smith 8/4/1996

Rainbow Trout 27 lbs 0 oz 37.5" Lake Natoma Frank Palmer 10/2/2005

Rainbow Trout 23 lbs 0 oz Lake Natoma Jeremy Brucklacher 1/17/2000

Redear Sunfish 5 lbs 3 oz Folsom So. Canal Anthony White 6/27/1994

Sacramento Perch 3 lbs 10 oz Crowley Lake Jack Johnson 5/22/1979

Sargo 4 lbs 1 oz Salton Sea Mike Leonte 1972

Skipjack Tuna 26 lbs 0 oz San Diego William Hall 9/28/1970

Smallmouth Bass 9 lbs 1 oz Clair Engle Lake Tim Brady 3/20/1976

Spotted Bass 10 lbs 4 oz Pine Flat Reservoir Brian Shishido 5/3/2001

Starry Flounder 11 lbs 4 oz San Simeon Steve Doshier 8/29/1993

Striped Bass 67 lbs 8 oz ONeill Forebay Hank Ferguson 5/7/1992

Striped Marlin 339 lbs 0 oz Catalina Island Gary Jasper 7/4/1985

Sturgeon 468 lbs 0 oz San Pablo Bay Joey Pallotta 7/9/1983

Tilapia 3 lbs 8 oz Palo Verde Canal Carol A. Bellamy 11/27/2000

Vermilion Rockfish 14 lbs 9 oz Morro Bay Bobby Cruce 7/31/1996

Warmouth 0 lbs 15 oz 9" Hensley Lake Russell Jacobs 5/21/2004

White Bass 5 lbs 5 oz Ferguson Lake Milton Mize 5/8/1972

White Catfish 22 lbs 0 oz William Land Park Pond James Robinson 3/21/1994

White Crappie 4 lbs 8 oz Clear Lake Carol Carlton 4/26/1971

Yellowfin Tuna 239 lbs 0 oz Catalina Island Ronald B. Howarth 11/4/1984

Yellowtail Rockfish 5 lbs 8 oz Alder Ck. Alberto Cortez 9/4/1991