New Hampshire Fishing Records

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

Species Weight Length Location Angler Date Photo

American Eel 8 lbs 0 oz 44.5" Crystal Lake Michael Hansharak 7/6/1975

Atlantic Cod 98 lbs 12 oz 63" Atlantic Ocean - Isle of Shoals Alphonse Bielevich 6/8/1969

Atlantic Salmon 18 lbs 8 oz 34.5" Pleasant Lake Mrs. Letty M. Clark 8/31/1942

Black Crappie 2 lbs 12.8 oz 17.25" Bellamy Reservoir Tom Noyes 2/9/2000

Bluefin Tuna 844 lbs 0 oz 112" Atlantic Ocean - Gulf of Maine Wayne Clough 9/13/1997

Bluefish 21 lbs 0 oz 39" Atlantic Ocean - Great Bay Henry S. Krook 8/23/1975

Bluegill Sunfish 2 lbs 0.64 oz 11.25" Goodwin Pond Justin S. Therieau 6/18/1992

Bowfin 8 lbs 13 oz 28" Wilson Pond Kenneth LAbbe 8/24/1994

Brook Trout 9 lbs 0 oz 25.5" Pleasant Lake A. Val Woodruff 5/8/2001

Brown Bullhead 2 lbs 8.96 oz 17.5" Wilson Pond Edward Grant 8/13/1998

Brown Trout 16 lbs 6 oz 32.5" Connecticut River Ken Reed Jr. 7/4/1975

Burbot 11 lbs 2.2 oz 34.25" Sunapee Lake John MacKenna 3/4/1984

Carp 30 lbs 8 oz 34.5" Mascoma River Stephen Allan 6/17/1985

Chain Pickerel 8 lbs 0 oz 26" Plummer Lake Carroll R. Akeley 4/24/1966

Chinook (King) Salmon 19 lbs 4 oz 37" Exeter River Brian OConnell 11/9/1985

Coho Salmon 16 lbs 3 oz 33.5" Piscataqua River Perry R. Soroko 9/3/1984

Cusk 31 lbs 0 oz 39.5" Atlantic Ocean - Gulf of Maine Richard F. Hincman 6/10/1996

Fallfish 3 lbs 8.96 oz 20.75" Lake Winnipesaukee John Conti 7/12/1991

Haddock 10 lbs 10.75 oz 31.5" Atlantic Ocean - Gulf of Maine George R. Koster 5/26/1988

King Mackerel 3 lbs 0 oz 17.5" Atlantic Ocean - Gulf of Maine Donald Angerman 5/12/1988

Lake Trout 28 lbs 8 oz 39.5" Newfound Lake Albert C. Staples 4/24/1958

Lake Whitefish 5 lbs 1 oz 21.75" Lake Winnipesaukee Paul E. Littlefield 8/23/1974

Largemouth Bass 10 lbs 8 oz 25.8" Lake Potanipo G. Bullpitt 5/1/1967

Menominee (Round) Whitefish 1 lbs 1.44 oz 16" Newfound Lake Richard A. Dow 2/24/1994

Northern Pike 23 lbs 1.6 oz 44" Connecticut River Brian J. McCarthy 3/9/1996

Pollock 47 lbs 0 oz 50" Atlantic Ocean Noborv Murakami 7/1/1981

Pumpkinseed Sunfish 0 lbs 12.48 oz 9.5" Winnipesaukee James R. Viar 2/1/2005

Rainbow Trout 15 lbs 7.2 oz 35.5" Pemigewasset River Lance King 9/16/1996

Rock Bass 1 lbs 8 oz 13.5" Island Pond Linc Chamberland 9/18/1982

Smallmouth Bass 7 lbs 14.5 oz 23.25" Goose Pond Francis H. Lord 8/1/1970

Splake 9 lbs 0 oz 26.88" Crystal Lake Thomas Barbour 2/20/1980

Striped Bass 60 lbs 0 oz 51" Atlantic Ocean - Great Bay Robert A. Lindholm 6/26/1980

Sunapee Trout 11 lbs 8 oz 33" Sunapee Lake Ernest Theoharris 10/2/1954

Tautog 3 lbs 12.48 oz 18.25" Atlantic Ocean - Great Bay Kenneth Malone 6/16/1999

Tiger Muskellunge 11 lbs 11.68 oz 35.5" Connecticut River Brian Patch 6/27/1982

Walleye 12 lbs 8.8 oz 34" Connecticut River Anthony Bartolini 5/4/1992

White Catfish 5 lbs 11 oz 23" Big Cub Pond Zachary Cross 8/4/1996

White Perch 3 lbs 11.5 oz 17.2" Lake Winnipesaukee John J. Ziolkowski 12/29/1986

Winter Flounder 2 lbs 7.04 oz 19.75" Atlantic Ocean Carol Clark 6/12/1999

Yellow Bullhead 2 lbs 8 oz 16" Pecknolds Pond Gerald Menard 8/1/1980

Yellow Perch 2 lbs 6 oz 15.5" Heads Pond R. Hebert 3/4/1969