Florida Fishing Records

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

Alligator Gar 123 lbs 0 oz Choctawhatchee River Zachary Phillips 7/8/1995

Black Crappie 3 lbs 13 oz Lake Talquin Ben Curry Sr. 1/21/1992

Blue Catfish 61 lbs 8 oz Little Escambia Creek Vincent R. Walston 2/11/1996

Bluegill Sunfish 2 lbs 15 oz Crystal Lake John LeMaster 4/19/1989

Bowfin 19 lbs 0 oz Lake Kissimmee Jim Brown 11/5/1984

Brown Bullhead 5 lbs 11 oz Little Cedar Creek Robert Bengis 3/28/1995

Butterfly Peacock Bass 9 lbs 1 oz Kendall Lake Jerry Gomez 3/11/1993

Chain Pickerel 5 lbs 12 oz Lake Talquin Jep Dove 6/11/2004

Channel Catfish 44 lbs 8 oz Big Bluff Lake Joe Purvis 5/19/1985

Flathead Catfish 44 lbs 39 oz Apalachicola River Tommy Fowler 4/10/2004

Flier Sunfish 1 lbs 4 oz Iamonia Lake William Lane Jr. 8/14/1992

Florida Gar 7 lbs 0 oz Oklawaha Greg Rozycki 6/28/1988

Largemouth Bass 17 lbs 4 oz unknown Billy OBerry 7/6/1986

Longnose Gar 41 lbs 0 oz Lake Panasoffkee Evan Merritt 4/14/1985

Oscar 2 lbs 5 oz Lake Okeechobee Jimmy Cook 3/16/1994

Redbreast Sunfish 2 lbs 1 oz Suwannee River Jerrel Dewees Jr. 4/2/1988

Redear Sunfish 4 lbs 14 oz Merritt Pond Joseph Floyd 3/13/1986

Redeye Bass 7 lbs 13 oz Apalachicola River William Johnston 2/18/1989

Redfin Pickerel 1 lbs 1 oz New River Mike Wilkerson 1/6/1993

Shad 5 lbs 3 oz Saint Johns River Bud Dankert 2/15/1990

Spotted Bass 3 lbs 12 oz Apalachicola River Dow Gilmore 6/24/1985

Spotted Sunfish 0 lbs 13 oz Suwannee River Coy Dotson 5/12/1984

Striped Bass 42 lbs 4 oz Apalachicola River Alphonso Barnes 12/14/199

Sunshine Bass 16 lbs 5 oz Lake Seminole Thomas Elder 5/9/1985

Warmouth 2 lbs 7 oz Yellow River Tony Dempsey 10/1/1985

White Bass 4 lbs 14 oz Apalachicola River Richard Davis 4/9/1982

White Catfish 18 lbs 14 oz Withlacoochee River Jim Miller 9/21/1991