Idaho Fishing Records

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

Arctic Grayling 2 lbs 7 oz 18.125" Nez Perce Lake Velma Mahaffey 1992

Atlantic Salmon 13 lbs 6 oz 29.75" Deadwood Reservoir Garrett Buffington 10/15/1995

Black Crappie 3 lbs 8.96 oz 17.5" Brownlee Reservoir Jason Monson 6/8/2003

Bluegill Sunfish 3 lbs 8 oz C.J. Strike Reservoir Darrell Grim 1966

Brook Trout 7 lbs 1 oz 23.5" Henrys Lake DeVere Stratton 8/16/1978

Brown Trout 26 lbs 6 oz 36.5" South Fork Snake River Farrell Oswald 4/16/1981

Bullhead 3 lbs 14 oz 20.5" Brownlee Reservoir James Winter 1986

Burbot 14 lbs 0 oz Kootenai River P.A. Dayton 1954

Carp 37 lbs 8 oz 44" Brownlee Reservoir Jere Bower 1988

Channel Catfish 31 lbs 0.8 oz 38" Mann Lake Kenny Decker 2001

Chinook (King) Salmon 54 lbs 0 oz Salmon River Merrold Gold 1956

Chinook (King) Salmon 42 lbs 0 oz 41.25" Coeur dAlene Lake Jane Clifford 9/13/1987

Coho Salmon 5 lbs 8 oz 24.5" Cascade Reservoir Verne S. Ward 1992

Cutthroat Trout 18 lbs 15 oz Bear Lake Roger Grunig 1970

Dolly Varden Trout 32 lbs Lake Pend Oreille Nelson Higgins 1949

Flathead Catfish 58 lbs 8 oz 48" Brownlee Reservoir Newberry / McCormick 1994

Golden Trout 5 lbs 2 oz White Sands Lake George Wolverton 1958

Green Sunfish 0 lbs 5 oz 7.375" Hauser Lake Tom Fulton 1994

Kamloops Trout 37 lbs Lake Pend Oreille Wes Hamlet 1947

Kokanee Salmon 6 lbs 9.5 oz 24.5" Priest Lake Jerry Verge 1975

Lake Trout 57 lbs 8 oz 49" Priest Lake Lyle McClure 1971

Lake Whitefish 3 lbs 5 oz 22.125" Lake Pend Oreille David Fowler 1998

Largemouth Bass 10 lbs 15 oz Anderson Lake Mrs. M.W. Taylor 0

Largescale Sucker 6 lbs 3.8 oz 24.875" Cascade Reservoir Jesse Brown 1999

Mountain Whitefish 5 lbs 14.4 oz 22.5" Island Park Reservoir Robert Hall 1997

Northern Pike 38 lbs 9 oz 49" Coeur dAlene Lake Dennis W. Hicks 1992

Pikeminnow 7 lbs 1.4 oz 26" North Fork Payette River Bob Chegwidden 1996

Pumpkinseed Sunfish 0 lbs 14 oz 9.75" Chase Lake Bob Russell 1977

Rainbow Trout 19 lbs 0 oz Hayden Lake R.M. Williams 1947

Smallmouth Bass 9 lbs 11.5 oz 23.75" Dworshak Reservoir Dan Steigers 10/28/200

Sockeye Salmon 5 lbs 0 oz 24" Redfish Lake June McCray 1970

Splake 4 lbs 8 oz 22" Hayden Lake Kevin Collins 1996

Steelhead Trout 30 lbs 2 oz 44" Clearwater River Keith Powell 1973

Sturgeon 394 lbs 0 oz Snake River Glenn Howard 1956

Tench 4 lbs 14 oz 21" Spokane River Scotty Brueher 2000

Tiger Muskellunge 38 lbs 7 oz 48.25" Hauser Lake Douglas Butts 2001

Utah Sucker 7 lbs 11 oz 25.5" Portneuf River Craig Curtiss 1999

Walleye 16 lbs 2 oz 32.5" Salmon Falls Creek Reservoir Bill Sorensen 1996

Warmouth 0 lbs 9.6 oz 8.75" Snake River Marvin Stevens 1988

White Crappie 3 lbs 1 oz Crane Creek Reservoir Leslie Greenwood 2001

Yellow Perch 2 lbs 9.6 oz 15.5" Wilson Lake Jerry Hamblin 1976