New Mexico Fishing Records

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

Blue Catfish 33 lbs 8 oz 39.5" Elephant Butte Lake Tubby Oldfield 6/13/1999

Bluegill Sunfish 3 lbs 1.5 oz 11.75" Lovington Lake Thomas Smith 6/10/1963

Brook Trout 5 lbs 0 oz 21" Hidden Lake Jack Campbell 9/23/1996

Brown Trout 20 lbs 4 oz 34.5" Chama River C.T. Colgrove 7/9/1946

Channel Catfish 36 lbs 8 oz 38" Stubblefield Lake Julie Kulhan 4/12/1999

Coho Salmon 4 lbs 6 oz 23.5" El Vado Lake John Cawlfield 10/20/1974

Crappie 4 lbs 9 oz 16" Black River Oscar W. Buck 3/2/1983

Cutthroat Trout 10 lbs 2 oz 24.63" Latir Lakes Alias Miera Jr. 6/27/1981

Flathead Catfish 78 lbs 0 oz 47.5" Elephant Butte Lake - Ash Canyon Jim Wilson 6/7/1979

Green Sunfish 1 lbs 6 oz 13" Elephant Butte Lake Misty Ann Crowder 7/25/1996

Kokanee Salmon 4 lbs 0 oz 24" Navajo Lake Brad Williams 10/13/2000

Lake Trout 31 lbs 6 oz 41.5" Heron Lake Paul Casias 2/24/1999

Largemouth Bass 15 lbs 13 oz 26.5" Bill Evans Lake Steve Estrada 3/24/1995

Longear Sunfish 1 lbs 12 oz 10.5" Elephant Butte Lake Pat Stout 5/9/1985

Longnose Gar 12 lbs 8 oz 39.25" Pecos River Lynn Nymeyer 7/6/1986

Northern Pike 36 lbs 0 oz 53" Miami Lake Samuel Roy 11/21/1974

Rainbow Trout 31 lbs 12 oz 33.5" Santa Cruz Lake Peter Romero 3/13/1999

Smallmouth Bass 6 lbs 14 oz 22" Navajo Lake David L. Young 5/15/1999

Spotted Bass 4 lbs 8 oz 18" Cochiti Lake Sam Evola 3/16/1988

Striped Bass 54 lbs 8 oz 45" Elephant Butte Lake Jim Secor 4/1/1992

Walleye 16 lbs 9 oz 32" Clayton Lake G.L. Peppers 9/19/1999

White Bass 4 lbs 13 oz 19.5" Bill Evans Lake Jack Alexander 6/18/1983

Yellow Perch 2 lbs 5 oz 16" Lake 13 (Maxwell) Bob McFall 10/20/1995