My Fishing Highlights

Alabama:  38-inch flathead catfish

Arizona:  22-inch, 8-pound largemouth

Arkansas:  38-inch (28-pound); 39-inch (25-pound); and 43.5-inch (38-pound) stripers 

California:  18-inch, 2-pound kokanee

Colorado:  39-inch (32-pound) and 37-inch (25-pound) lake trout 

Connecticut:  45.5-inch (33-pound) striper; 45-inch (34-pound) striper; and 12-pound, 14-ounce bluefish

Delaware:  39-inch, 27-pound striper

Florida:  27.5-inch and 24.5-inch largemouth bass 

Georgia:  five rainbow trout meeting or exceeding the 20-inch trophy minimum, with the heaviest being 10 pounds and 23 inches

Idaho:  eight sturgeon at least six feet long

Illinois:  12-pound coho salmon 

Indiana:  14-pound steelhead 

Iowa:  11.5-inch yellow bass

Kansas:  39-inch, 17.8-pound channel catfish 

Kentucky:  37-inch, 17.2 pound flathead catfish

Louisiana:  30-inch red drum

Maine:  44-inch, 45-pound striper

Maryland:  43.5-inch (40 pound) striper, 40-inch striper, and 8.5-foot, 250-pound sand tiger shark

Massachusetts:  900-pound, 115-inch bluefin tuna and 16-inch Atlantic mackerel

Michigan:  42-inch musky

Minnesota:  four lake sturgeon exceeding the 54-inch minimum, with the biggest being 68.5 inches and 81 pounds

Mississippi:  44-inch, 40-pound red drum

Missouri:  27-inch shovelnose sturgeon

Nebraska:  24.5-inch hybrid striped bass

Nevada:  32-inch, 10-pound Lahontan cutthroat trout

New Hampshire:  24-inch lake Atlantic salmon 

New Jersey:  43-inch (30-pound) and 46.75-inch (34-pound) stripers 

New Mexico:  24-inch white bass

New York:  10.5-pound and 10-pound walleye

North Carolina:  12-inch white perch

North Dakota:  18 channel catfish exceeding the 30-inch trophy minimum, with the heaviest being 19.2 pounds and 35 inches

Ohio:  29-inch, 10-pound walleye

Oklahoma:  66-inch, 54-pound paddlefish

Oregon:  6.5-foot, 7-foot, and 9-foot white sturgeon

Pennsylvania:  43-inch (32.2-pound), 40.5-inch (28.8-pound), and 36-inch (19.2-pound) flathead catfish

Rhode Island:  33-inch bluefish

South Carolina:  250-pound, 108-inch bull shark

South Dakota:  six smallmouth bass exceeding the three-pound trophy minimum, with the biggest being 19 inches and 4 pounds, 3 ounces

Tennessee:  48-pound, 42-inch blue catfish

Texas:  81.5-inch, 187-pound alligator gar 

Utah:  22-pound, 40-inch lake trout

Vermont:  24-inch Atlantic salmon and 14-inch cisco (lake herring)

Virginia:  trophies in 22 different freshwater species and 4 saltwater species

Washington:  24-inch, 6.55-pound rainbow trout

West Virginia:  25-inch channel catfish

Wisconsin:  30-inch coho salmon

Wyoming:  49-pound (46-inch) and 23-pound (36-inch) lake trout; 10 kokanee salmon over 3.5 pounds 

 

For more information on what constitutes a trophy fish, please see the Q&A section.