Delaware Fishing Records

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

Albacore Tuna 80 lbs 0 oz N/A David Francella 9/15/1987

American Shad 6 lbs 12 oz Brandywine Creek Bayard Conaway 5/2/1972

Atlantic Croaker 5 lbs 3.5 oz Indian River Catherine Simpson 9/12/1980

Atlantic Mackerel 3 lbs 5 oz Atlantic Ocean - Delaware Bay Ricky Yakimowicz 4/20/1985

Black Drum 115 lbs 0 oz Atlantic Ocean - Delaware Bay Kenneth H. Smith 5/20/1978

Blue Marlin 820 lbs 0 oz Atlantic Ocean - Poormans Canyan Bruce King 7/8/1986

Bluefish 21 lbs 15 oz Atlantic Ocean - Rehoboth Beach Bill Thoroughgood 10/27/1980

Bluegill Sunfish 2 lbs 10 oz 13" Diamond Pond Arnold Harmon 6/10/1998

Carp 45 lbs 0 oz Delaware River Ronald Burnett 6/6/1976

Catfish 23 lbs 6 oz C&D Canal William Ridgley 8/3/1992

Chain Pickerel 7 lbs 3 oz Horsey Pond Earl Messick 4/22/1972

Channel Bass 75 lbs 0 oz Atlantic Ocean James Vandetti 6/15/1976

Crappie 4 lbs 9 oz Noxontown Pond Marvin Billips 5/30/1976

Dolphin 49 lbs 0 oz Atlantic Ocean Kelly Price 8/28/1987

False Albacore 17 lbs 9 oz Atlantic Ocean - 30 Fathom Line Scott A. Werner 8/31/1980

Flounder 17 lbs 15 oz Atlantic Ocean - Indian River Inlet William Kendall 10/7/1994

Hybrid Bass 13 lbs 13.5 oz Lums Pond Earl Blevins 3/12/1990

King Mackerel 4 lbs 0 oz Atlantic Ocean - Bethany Beach Billy Hastings 10/13/1973

King Mackerel 48 lbs 9 oz Atlantic Ocean - B Bouy Gordon Harris 9/19/1992

Largemouth Bass 10 lbs 5 oz Andrews Lake Tony Kaczmarczyk 12/6/1980

Ling Cod 44 lbs 10 oz Atlantic Ocean - Five Fathoms Bank John Osborne 1/25/1975

Mako Shark 975 lbs 0 oz 132" Poormans Canyan Thomas Barnes 7/22/2000

Porgy 5 lbs 5 oz Atlantic Ocean Herman Schmidt 5/31/1979

Redear Sunfish 3 lbs 1 oz 15" Diamond Pond Marty Messick 6/14/1998

Sea Trout 19 lbs 2 oz Atlantic Ocean - Delaware Bay William E. Thomas 5/20/1989

Seabass 7 lbs 6 oz Atlantic Ocean - Fenwick Shoal Steve Samluk 9/9/1988

Shark 825 lbs 0 oz Atlantic Ocean Brent Thomas 7/11/1981

Sheepshead 13 lbs 11 oz 27.5" Atlantic Ocean - Haystack Frank Piectrazak 9/27/2000

Smallmouth Bass 4 lbs 15 oz Brandywine River Jerry Proffitt 5/29/1989

Striped Bass 51 lbs 8 oz Indian River Inlet Betty Roseu 12/1/1978

Swordfish 276 lbs 12 oz Delaware Bay Albert E. Scott 8/20/1978

Tautog 19 lbs 13 oz 32" Atlantic Ocean - Ocean Wreck Ivan J. Brown 4/26/1999

Tiger Muskellunge 15 lbs 2 oz 39" Brandywine River Richard Harris 5/11/1991

Trout 11 lbs 10 oz 28" White Clay Creek Edwin Wallace 2/16/1997

Tuna 322 lbs 0 oz Atlantic Ocean - Baltimore Canyan Mike Horner 7/11/1992

Wahoo 94 lbs 0 oz Atlantic Ocean - Poormans Canyan Julian D. Brake 9/24/1986

Walleye 6 lbs 14 oz 27.5" Brandywine River Nesbit Copenhaver 7/23/1995

White Marlin 120 lbs 0 oz Atlantic Ocean - Baltimore Canyan William Garner Jr. 9/25/1972

White Perch 2 lbs 9 oz 15" Indian River Wayne Hastings 2/28/1997

Yellow Perch 2 lbs 11 oz Red Clay Creek Mervin Kessinger 5/2/1976