Tennessee Fishing Records

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

Bighead Carp 47 lbs 0 oz Nickajack Reservoir unknown 6/6/1999

Bighead Carp 47 lbs 0 oz Guntersville Reservoir unknown 7/1/1999

Bigmouth Buffalo 46 lbs 5 oz Watts Bar Reservoir unknown 4/9/1982

Black Buffalo 55 lbs 8 oz Cherokee Reservoir unknown 5/3/1984

Black Bullhead 3 lbs 5.5 oz pond unknown 2/20/1997

Black Crappie 4 lbs 4 oz Browns Creek Lake unknown 3/23/1985

Blue Catfish 112 lbs 0 oz Cumberland River - Lock C unknown 6/7/1998

Bluegill Sunfish 3 lbs 0 oz Fall Creek unknown 6/27/1977

Bluegill Sunfish 3 lbs 0 oz pond unknown 12/19/1987

Bowfin 15 lbs 7 oz Reelfoot Lake unknown 6/22/1983

Brook Trout 3 lbs 14 oz Hiwassee River unknown 8/30/1988

Brown Bullhead 2 lbs 14 oz Chickamauga Reservoir unknown 6/5/1980

Brown Trout 28 lbs 12 oz Clinch River unknown 8/30/1988

Carp 42 lbs 8 oz Boone Reservoir unknown 8/12/1956

Chain Pickerel 7 lbs 7 oz Kentucky Reservoir unknown 2/2/1991

Channel Catfish 41 lbs 0 oz Fall Creek Lake Clint Walters, Jr. 7/30/1982

Creek Chub 0 lbs 3 oz Roan Creek unknown 3/13/2000

Cutthroat Trout 0 lbs 6 oz Obey River unknown 6/1/1969

Drum 54 lbs 8 oz Nickajack Reservoir unknown 4/20/1972

Flathead Catfish 85 lbs 15 oz Hiwassee River unknown 7/25/1993

Flier Sunfish 0 lbs 5.5 oz Blair Lake unknown 3/3/1987

Golden Redhorse 2 lbs 9 oz Elk River unknown 10/10/1998

Golden Shiner 0 lbs 15 oz Chickamauga Reservoir unknown 3/26/1999

Goldeye 0 lbs 14 oz Cumberland River unknown 4/17/1993

Grass Carp 67 lbs 0 oz Norris Reservoir unknown 4/13/1999

Green Sunfish 1 lbs 4 oz North Cross Creek unknown 6/8/1991

Highfin Carpsucker 1 lbs 9 oz Kentucky Reservoir unknown 2/28/1980

Hybrid Bass 23 lbs 3 oz Stones River unknown 5/17/1998

Israeli Carp 53 lbs 0 oz Marrowbone Lake unknown 5/21/1997

Lake Trout 20 lbs 0.79 oz Watauga Reservoir unknown 4/2/1994

Largemouth Bass 14 lbs 8 oz Sugar Creek unknown 10/17/1954

Longear Sunfish 0 lbs 12.75 oz pond unknown 5/15/1985

Longnose Gar 23 lbs 0 oz Kentucky Reservoir unknown 1963

Mooneye 1 lbs 4 oz Hiwassee River Steve D. Moss 5/5/2005

Muskellunge 42 lbs 8 oz Norris Reservoir unknown 4/27/1983

Northern Pike 24 lbs 7.5 oz South Holston Reservoir unknown 3/28/1995

Ohrid Trout 14 lbs 5 oz Watauga Reservoir unknown 3/28/1986

OrangeSpotted Sunfish 0 lbs 5.44 oz Nolichucky River unknown 5/3/1982

Paddlefish 75 lbs 0 oz Center Hill Reservoir unknown 4/28/1984

Pumpkinseed Sunfish 0 lbs 5 oz Dogwood lake unknown 6/14/1998

Rainbow Trout 15 lbs 0.25 oz Boone Reservoir unknown 6/18/1994

Redbreast Sunfish 1 lbs 5 oz Holston River unknown 6/22/1974

Redear Sunfish 3 lbs 5.5 oz pond unknown 9/1/1979

Redeye Bass 1 lbs 14.5 oz Parksville Reservoir unknown 8/18/1991

Redhorse 11 lbs 0 oz Duck River unknown 4/6/1993

Rock Bass 2 lbs 8 oz Stones River unknown 1958

Sauger 7 lbs 6 oz Kentucky Reservoir unknown 2/19/1973

Saugeye 10 lbs 12 oz Melton Hill Reservoir unknown 7/18/1998

Shortnose Gar 5 lbs 12 oz Watts Bar Reservoir unknown 5/10/1995

Skipjack Herring 3 lbs 12 oz Watts Bar Reservoir unknown 2/14/1982

Smallmouth Bass 11 lbs 15 oz Dale Hollow Reservoir unknown 7/9/1955

Smallmouth Buffalo 64 lbs 0 oz Kentucky Reservoir Evan Mercer 3/8/2003

Spotted Bass 5 lbs 8 oz Center Hill Reservoir unknown 2/4/1989

Spotted Gar 9 lbs 4.8 oz Cross Creek unknown 6/27/1999

Stoneroller 0 lbs 10 oz Hiwassee River unknown 5/1/1983

Striped Bass 65 lbs 6 oz Cordell Hull Reservoir unknown 5/1/2000

Walleye 25 lbs 0 oz Old Hickory Reservoir unknown 8/3/1960

Warmouth 1 lbs 12 oz Nolichucky River unknown 5/26/1984

White Bass 5 lbs 2 oz Parksville Reservoir unknown 4/22/1989

White Crappie 5 lbs 1 oz pond unknown 4/20/1968

Yellow Bass 2 lbs 9 oz Duck River unknown 2/27/1998

Yellow Bullhead 4 lbs 8 oz Chickamauga Reservoir unknown 4/21/1979

Yellow Perch 1 lbs 15 oz Hiwassee River unknown 12/6/1992

Yellow Perch 1 lbs 15 oz Melton Hill Reservoir unknown 8/25/1996