Montana Fishing Records

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

Arctic Grayling 3 lbs 20" Washtub Lake Glenn Owens 6/28/2003

Bigmouth Buffalo 57 lbs 12 oz 40.7" Nelson Reservoir Craig D. Grassel 6/4/1994

Black Bullhead 2 lbs 5.28 oz 15.5" Flathead River Darwin Zemple Jr. 4/4/1994

Black Crappie 3 lbs 2.08 oz 16.7" Tongue River Reservoir Al Elser 1973

Blue Sucker 11 lbs 7.36 oz 29.75" Yellowstone River - Miles City Doug Askin 10/7/1989

Bluegill Sunfish 2 lbs 10.24 oz 11" Petersons Stock Dam Brent Fladmo 6/3/1983

Brook Trout 9 lbs 0.96 oz Lower Two Medicine Lake John R. Cook 1940

Brown Trout 29 lbs 0 oz Wade Lake E.H. Peck Bacon 1966

Burbot 17 lbs 1.28 oz 39" Missouri River - Wolf Point Jeff E. Iwen 4/18/1989

Carp 40 lbs 3.2 oz 38" Nelson Reservoir Jared S. Albus 5/24/1998

Channel Catfish 27 lbs 2.72 oz 34.2" Castle Rock Lake Ed Ellertson 4/26/1998

Chinook (King) Salmon 31 lbs 2.08 oz 38" Fort Peck Reservoir Carl L. Niles 10/2/1991

Cisco 1 lbs 12 oz 17.25" Fort Peck Reservoir - below powerhouse Curt Zimmerman 5/19/1991

Coho Salmon 4 lbs 14.08 oz 25.5" Fort Peck Reservoir - face of dam Irven F. Stohl 5/29/1973

Cutthroat Trout 16 lbs 0 oz Red Eagle Lake William D. Sands 1955

Dolly Varden Trout 25 lbs 10.08 oz 37" N/A James Hyer 1916

Flathead Chub 0 lbs 9.44 oz 11.2" Thornton Pond Douglas Jordan 4/29/2001

Freshwater Drum 21 lbs 29.5" Fort Peck- Ghost Coulee Matt Washut 5/3/2003

Golden Trout 5 lbs 6.88 oz 23.5" Cave Lake Mike Malixi 7/16/2000

Goldeye 3 lbs 2.88 oz Nelson Reservoir Don Nevrivy 7/4/2000

Green Sunfish 0 lbs 8.96 oz 8.6" Castle Rock Lake Roger Fliger 6/19/1991

Hybrid Trout 30 lbs 4 oz 35.75" Ashley Lake Pat Kelley 5/16/1982

Kokanee Salmon 7 lbs 8 oz 26.8" Hauser Lake John Bomar 9/23/2003

Lake Trout 42 lbs 7 oz 42.5" Flathead Lake Ruth Barber 6/23/2004

Lake Whitefish 10 lbs 1.28 oz 26.375" Lower Saint Mary Lake Theo Hamby 6/24/1995

Largemouth Bass 8 lbs 4.64 oz 22" Many Lakes Adam Nelson 6/11/1999

Largescale Sucker 5 lbs 0.96 oz 23" Kootenai River Loren Kujawa 5/12/1996

Longnose Sucker 3 lbs 4.32 oz Marias River - Loma Ray Quigley 5/8/1988

Mottled Sculpin 0 lbs 0.8 oz Belt Creek Brad Sullivan 7/30/2001

Mountain Sucker 0 lbs 1.6 oz 6.2" Beaver Creek Reservoir Robert Garwood 4/23/2001

Mountain Whitefish 5 lbs 1.44 oz 21.14" Kootenai River - below dam Mervin Fenimore 9/15/1987

Northern Pike 37 lbs 8 oz Tongue River Reservoir Lance Moyer 1972

Northern Squawfish 7 lbs 14.08 oz 27.125" Noxon Rapids Reservoir Darrel Torgrimson 5/28/1991

Paddlefish 142 lbs 8 oz 77" Missouri River - near Kipp Park Larry Branstetter 5/20/1973

Pallid Sturgeon 60 lbs 0 oz Yellowstone River - near Sidney Gene Sattler 5/13/1979

Peamouth Chub 1 lbs 05 oz 13.7" Flathead Lake Paul Teichman 9/16/2002

Pumpkinseed Sunfish 0 lbs 15.2 oz Milnor Lake Tim Colver 7/9/1985

Pygmy Whitefish 0 lbs .23 oz 9" Little Bitterroot Lake Kevin Kadley - Troy Fraley TIE 2/23/1999

Rainbow Trout 33 lbs 1.6 oz 38.62" Kootenai River - David Thompson Bridge Jack G. Housel Jr. 8/11/1997

Redside Shiner 0 lbs 1.6 oz 6.5" Lost Lake Josh Ahles 8/21/2001

River Carpsucker 6 lbs 6.72 oz N/A Bill Odenbach 5/22/2000

Rock Bass 0 lbs 9.12 oz 8.6" Tongue River Reservoir Don Holzheimer 6/1/1989

Sauger 8 lbs 12.8 oz 28.2" Fort Peck Reservoir Gene Moore 12/12/1994

Saugeye 15 lbs 10.56 oz Fort Peck Reservoir - Squaw Creek Myron Kibler 1/11/1995

Shorthead Redhorse 4 lbs 10.88 oz 20.25" Marias River - near Loma Ray Quigley 4/14/1985

Shortnose Gar 7 lbs 2 oz 34" Fort Peck Dredge Cuts Ron Gulbertson 12/22/2003

Shovelnose Sturgeon 13 lbs 11.52 oz 39.5" Missouri River - near Virgelle Sidney Storm 4/19/1986

Smallmouth Bass 6 lbs 6.4 oz 21.25" Flathead River Ken Riska 4/16/2000

Smallmouth Bass 6 lbs 6. oz 21" Fort Peck Reservoir Mike Otten 7/30/2002

Smallmouth Buffalo 32 lbs 10.08 oz 32.2" Nelson Reservoir Richard Liesener 6/4/1994

Stone Catfish 0 lbs 8.64 oz 10" Milk River Dale Bjerga 6/16/1996

Tiger Muskellunge 27 lbs 0 oz 45.25" Lebo Lake Dan Dupea 10/2/1994

Tiger Trout 4 lbs 0.64 oz 20.6" Bear Lake Joe Sobczak 2/9/1997

Utah Chub 1 lbs 12.96 oz Canyon Ferry Reservoir Eugene Bastian 2/5/1992

Walleye 16 lbs 10.08 oz 31.5" Fort Peck Reservoir Danny Spence 1/21/2000

White Bass 2 lbs 4 oz 16.25" Missouri River - south of Bainville Vernon Pacovsky 9/23/1998

White Crappie 3 lbs 10.88 oz 18.5" Tongue River Gene Bassett 5/10/1996

White Sturgeon 96 lbs 0 oz Kootenai River Herb Stout 1968

White Sucker 5 lbs 5.28 oz 21.625" Nelson Reservoir Fred Perry 2/10/1983

Yellow Bullhead 0 lbs 14.88 oz 11.8" Tongue River Reservoir Carl Radonski 5/24/1998

Yellow Perch 2 lbs 5.92 oz 14.5" Ashley Lake Vernon Schmid 3/31/1988