Texas Fishing Records

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

Alligator Gar 279 lbs 0 oz Rio Grande River Bill Valverde 1/10/1951

American Eel 1 lbs 8.64 oz 31" Lake Lavon Marc Jones 3/30/2000

Bighead Carp 90 lbs 0 oz 55.5" Lake Kirby Timothy Conner 7/22/2000

Bigmouth Buffalo 58 lbs 12 oz 40.75" Lake Sam Rayburn Allen Chesney 1/29/1994

Bigmouth Sleeper 0 lbs 31.12 oz 13" Nueces River Juan Sepulveda 8/27/1994

Black Bullhead 4 lbs 0.32 oz 18" Navarro Mills Lake Roy Calame 6/10/1984

Black Crappie 3 lbs 92 oz 18.5" lake Fork George Ward 4/27/2003

Blacktail Shiner 0 lbs 0.48 oz 3.98" Austin Lake Allen Bradford 8/11/1993

Blue Catfish 121 lbs 5 oz 58" Lake Texoma Cody Mullenix 1/16/2004

Blue Tilapia 6 lbs 4 oz 19" Gibbons Creek Reservoir Matthew Gross 12/19/1995

Bluegill Sunfish 1 lbs 13 oz 11.5" Purtis Creek James Sides 6/12/1993

Bowfin 17 lbs 10.4 oz 36.5" Lake Fork Brenda Walsh 2/21/1993

Brook Trout 0 lbs 10.72 oz 12" Guadalupe River Bryan Hendricks 2/19/1984

Brown Trout 7 lbs 1.92 oz 24" Guadalupe River Jeff Delong 2/7/1986

Chain Pickerel 4 lbs 12 oz 23.75" Pat Mayse Lake Robert Finch 2/18/1996

Channel Catfish 36 lbs 8 oz 38" Pedernales River Mrs. Joe Cockrell 3/7/1965

Common Carp 41 lbs 8 oz 40" Town Lake Vaughn Osmond 3/25/2005

Flathead Catfish 98 lbs 8 oz 53" Lake Palestine James Laster 12/2/1998

Freshwater Drum 34 lbs 11.2 oz 32.25" Lake Texoma Billy Walker 3/30/1995

Gizzard Shad 2 lbs 10.72 oz 18" Town Lake Darryl Freeman 4/12/1997

Golden Shiner 0 lbs 8.32 oz 11" Lake Placid Brian Rankin 7/10/1996

Goldeye 2 lbs 5 oz 17.5" Lake Texoma Mandy Richmond 5/28/1996

Goldfish 5 lbs 0 oz 15.5" Lake Conroe Roy Bishoff 5/16/1994

Grass Carp 44 lbs 0 oz 46" Bastrop Bayou Jack Singleton 2/10/1998

Grass Pickerel 0 lbs 7.04 oz 13.75" Lake Sam Rayburn Pete Ellis 3/4/1995

Green Sunfish 1 lbs 3.52 oz 9.29" Tehuacana Creek Rickie Rivard 4/21/1995

Guadalupe Bass 3 lbs 11 oz 18.25" Lake Travis Allen Christenson Jr. 9/25/1983

Hybrid Bass 4 lbs 11 oz 20.39" San Marcos River Lance Wester 4/27/1999

Hybrid Bass 19 lbs 10.56 oz 35.16" Ray Hubbard Lake John Haney 6/20/1984

Hybrid Corvina 20 lbs 12.8 oz 35" Lake Braunig Phillip Mann 4/16/1992

Hybrid Sunfish 1 lbs 12.5 " Bardwell Lake Scot Pekrul 4/29/2004

Hybrid Tilapia 3 lbs 12 oz 15" Gibbons Creek Reservoir Jim Butler 3/27/1993

Inland Silverside 0 lbs 0.32 oz 4.25" Lake Benbrook Del Sowders 6/5/1994

Ladyfish 0 lbs 3.84 oz 10.5" Trinity River Mark LaBurt 8/25/2000

Largemouth Bass 18 lbs 2.88 oz 25.5" Lake Fork Barry StClair 1/24/1992

Longear Sunfish 0 lbs 7.68 oz 7.5" Lake Fork Tyler Russell 6/1/1998

Longnose Gar 50 lbs 5 oz Trinity River Townsend Miller 1954

Nile Perch 12 lbs 1 oz 30.5" Lake Braunig Mike Saldiver 2/1/1980

Northern Pike 18 lbs 4.48 oz 41" Town Lake Mike Sharpe 8/29/1981

Olive Oscar 1 lbs 3.36 oz 11.75" Greenbelt Reservoir Marion Eudey 8/29/1998

Orangemouth Corvina 16 lbs 5 oz 36" Calaveras Lake Earl Tenpenny 11/15/1991

Pacu 1 lbs 12.32 oz 13.5" Claiborne West Pond Richard Zerko 10/28/1995

Rainbow Trout 7 lbs 12.32 oz 24" Guadalupe River Rex Ludwick 2/19/1995

Red Drum 36 lbs 13.28 oz 44" Fairfield Lake Billy Tyus 5/22/2001

Red-bellied Pacu 6 lbs 0 oz 19.5" Nooks Lake James Tant 12/5/1998

Redbreast Sunfish 1 lbs 10.08 oz 12" Comal River Alex Labowski 8/30/1997

Redear Sunfish 2 lbs 15.84 oz 14" Town Lake John Runnels 4/1/1997

Rio Grande Cichlid 1 lbs 5.92 oz 11.25" Concho River Paul Mueller 9/20/1996

River Carpsucker 2 lbs 1.6 oz 16.25" Trinity River Del Sowders 6/18/1996

Rock Bass 0 lbs 13.28 oz 10.25" San Marcos River Chad Thomas 10/9/1997

Saugeye 7 lbs 12.5 oz 27" Lake Kirby Robert Quintanilla 1/26/1998

Smallmouth Bass 7 lbs 14.88 oz 23" Lake Meredith Timothy Teague 3/13/1998

Smallmouth Buffalo 82 lbs 3.52 oz 43.5" Lake Athens Randy Collins 6/13/1993

Southern Flounder 11 lbs 5.6 oz 26" Brazoria Reservoir Glenn Comiskey 10/16/1987

Spotted Bass 5 lbs 8.96 oz 21" Lake O The Pines Turner Keith 3/13/1966

Spotted Gar 9 lbs 12.8 oz 36.5" Lake Mexia Rick Rivard 4/4/1994

Spotted Sucker 0 lbs 11.68 oz 11.5" Lake Benbrook Del Sowders 5/13/1994

Spotted Sunfish 0 lbs 1.92 oz 6.25" Onion Creek Artie Hebert 9/21/1993

Striped Bass 53 lbs 0 oz 48" Brazos River Ron Venerable 5/27/1999

Suckermouth Catfish 1 lbs 1.76 oz 17" San Antonio River Leon Muhlstein 7/3/2000

Tarpon 10 lbs 1.92 oz 37" Lake Braunig Paul Willette 8/6/1986

Threadfin Shad 0 lbs 2.08 oz 7.63" Richland Chambers Reservoir Billy Autery 11/16/1998

Tiger Muskellunge 9 lbs 1 oz 32" Lake Nocona Mike Gaines 5/27/1979

Walleye 11 lbs 14.08 oz 31.75" Lake Meredith Hank McWilliams Jr. 2/26/1990

Warmouth 1 lbs 4.8 oz 10.5" Town Lake Ralph Manns Jr. 7/19/1991

White Bass 5 lbs 8.96 oz 20.75" Colorado River David Cordill 3/31/1977

White Crappie 4 lbs 9 oz Navarro Mills Lake G.G. Wooderson 2/14/1968

Yellow Bass 1 lbs 14" Cedar Creek Lake Michael Forbes 4/21/2005

Yellow Bullhead 3 lbs 3.2 oz 16.25" Lake Fork Herschell Spears 3/22/1997

Yellow Perch 1 lbs 0.64 oz 12.5" Lake Meredith Melvin Vick 5/3/1996