Georgia Fishing Records

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

Black Crappie 4 lbs 4 oz Acrees Lake Shirley Lavender 6/1/1971

Black Crappie 4 lbs 4 oz Lake Spivey Steve Cheek 3/1/1975

Blue Catfish 62 lbs 0 oz Clarks Hill Reservoir Ralph Barbee Jr. 9/12/1979

Bluegill Sunfish 3 lbs 5 oz Shamrock Lake P. F. Gumm 7/3/1977

Bowfin 16 lbs 0 oz Foster State Park Charles Conley 5/25/1976

Brook Trout 5 lbs 10 oz Waters Creek Russell Braden 3/29/1986

Brown Bullhead 5 lbs 8 oz private pond James Andrews 5/22/1978

Brown Trout 18 lbs 6 oz Chattahoochee River Charles E. Ford 11/12/2001

Carp 35 lbs 12 oz Lake Jackson Donald Clark 1972

Chain Pickerel 9 lbs 6 oz Homerville Baxley McQuaig Jr. 2/1/1961

Channel Catfish 44 lbs 12 oz Altamaha River Bobby Smithwick 5/18/1972

Flathead Catfish 67 lbs 8 oz Altamaha River Gene Middleton 5/24/2000

Flier Sunfish 1 lbs 4 oz private pond Curt Brooks 2/26/1996

Green Sunfish 1 lbs 1 oz private pond Kevin Bryant 5/17/1998

Hickory Shad 1 lbs 15 oz Ogeechee River Mark Bowers 4/2/1995

Hybrid Bass 25 lbs 8 oz Lake Chatuge David Hobby 5/1/1995

Largemouth Bass 22 lbs 4 oz Montgomery Lake George Perry 6/2/1932

Longnose Gar 28 lbs 6 oz Flint River Richard Johnson 1/28/1995

Muskellunge 38 lbs 2 oz Blue Ridge Lake Rube Golden 6/1/1957

Northern Pike 18 lbs 2 oz Lake Rabun Keith Gragg 6/27/1982

Rainbow Trout 17 lbs 8 oz Soque River Mark Cochran 5/7/2004

Redbreast Sunfish 1 lbs 11 oz private pond Emory Walden 4/16/1998

Redear Sunfish 4 lbs 2 oz private pond Pat Larence 6/6/1995

Redeye Bass 3 lbs 7 oz Lake Hartwell Steve Williams 4/17/2004

Redfin Pickerel 2 lbs 10 oz Lewis Pond Gene Brantley 7/7/1982

Sauger 4 lbs 3 oz Clarks Hill Reservoir Stuart Bowers 4/5/1986

Shad 8 lbs 3 oz Savannah River Henry Baxley 4/5/1986

Shoal Bass 8 lbs 3 oz Flint River David Hubbard 10/23/1977

Smallmouth Bass 7 lbs 2 oz Lake Chatuge Jack Hall 3/28/1973

Spotted Bass 8 lbs 2 oz Lake Burton Wayne Holland 2/23/2005

Striped Bass 63 lbs 0 oz Oconee River Kelly Ward 5/30/1967

Suwanee Bass 3 lbs 9 oz Ochlocknee River Laverne Norton 10/6/1984

Walleye 11 lbs 6 oz Richard B. Russell Lake Neal Watson 9/11/1995

Warmouth 2 lbs 0 oz private pond Carlton Robbins 5/4/1974

White Bass 5 lbs 1 oz Lanier Lake J. M. Hobbins 6/16/1971

White Catfish 8 lbs 10 oz Savannah River James Sanders 6/10/1996

White Crappie 5 lbs 0 oz private pond Theresa Kemp 4/10/1984

Yellow Perch 2 lbs 8 oz Lake Burton Charles Poole 2/23/1980