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Texas State Fishing Records

The following is a list of Texas state record fish according to the Texas Department of Natural Resources. If you would like to submit a photo of your fish for our fishing pictures or of a state record fish e-mail them to us.
 
Species  Weight Location Angler Date
Guadalupe Bass 3 lbs 
11 oz
Lake Travis  Allen Christenson Jr. 9/25/1983
Hybrid Bass 4 lbs 
11 oz
San Marcos River  Lance Wester 4/27/1999
Hybrid Bass 19 lbs 
10.56 oz
Ray Hubbard Lake  John Haney 6/20/1984
Largemouth Bass 18 lbs 
2.88 oz
Lake Fork  Barry StClair 1/24/1992
Rock Bass 0 lbs 
13.28 oz
San Marcos River Chad Thomas 10/9/1997
Smallmouth Bass 7 lbs 
14.88 oz
Lake Meredith  Timothy Teague 3/13/1998
Spotted Bass 5 lbs 
8.96 oz
Lake O The Pines  Turner Keith 3/13/1966
Striped Bass 53 lbs  Brazos River Ron Venerable 5/27/1999
White Bass 5 lbs 
8.96 oz
Colorado River David Cordill 3/31/1977
Yellow Bass 1 lbs 
5.92 oz
Lake Fork  Mickey Wheatley 11/19/1997
Carp  Weight Location Angler Date
Bighead Carp 90 lbs  Lake Kirby  Timothy Conner 7/22/2000
Carp 25 lbs 
10.08 oz
Lake Houston  Lois Christensen 6/15/1994
Grass Carp 44 lbs  Bastrop Bayou  Jack Singleton 2/10/1998
Catfish  Weight Location Angler Date
Black Bullhead 4 lbs 
.32 oz
Navarro Mills Lake  Roy Calame 6/10/1984
Blue Catfish 121 lbs 
5 oz
Lake Texoma  Cody Mullenix 1/16/2004
Channel Catfish 36 lbs 
8 oz
Pedernales River  Mrs. Joe Cockrell 3/7/1965
Flathead Catfish 98 lbs 
8 oz
Lake Palestine  James Laster 12/2/1998
Suckermouth Catfish 1 lbs 
1.76 oz
San Antonio River  Leon Muhlstein 7/3/2000
Yellow Bullhead 3 lbs 
3.2 oz
Lake Fork  Herschell Spears 3/22/1997
Sunfish  Weight Location Angler Date
Bluegill Sunfish 1 lbs 
13 oz
Purtis Creek  James Sides 6/12/1993
Green Sunfish 1 lbs 
3.52 oz
Tehuacana Creek  Rickie Rivard 4/21/1995
Hybrid Sunfish 0 lbs 
15.84 oz
Austin Lake  Dwayne Kinley 10/19/1997
Longear Sunfish 0 lbs 
7.68 oz
Lake Fork  Tyler Russell 6/1/1998
Redbreast Sunfish 1 lbs 
10.08 oz
Comal River  Alex Labowski 8/30/1997
Redear Sunfish 2 lbs 
15.84 oz
Town Lake  John Runnels 4/1/1997
Spotted Sunfish 0 lbs 
1.92 oz
Onion Creek  Artie Hebert 9/21/1993
Trout  Weight Location Angler Date
Brook Trout 0 lbs 
10.72 oz
Guadalupe River  Bryan Hendricks 2/19/1984
Brown Trout 7 lbs 
1.92 oz
Guadalupe River  Jeff Delong 2/7/1986
Rainbow Trout 7 lbs 
12.32 oz
Guadalupe River  Rex Ludwick 2/19/1995
Species  Weight Location Angler Date
Alligator Gar 279 lbs Rio Grande River  Bill Valverde 1/10/1951
Longnose Gar 50 lbs 
5 oz
Trinity River  Townsend Miller 1954
Spotted Gar 9 lbs 
12.8 oz
Lake Mexia  Rick Rivard 4/4/1994
American Eel 1 lbs 
8.64 oz
Lake Lavon  Marc Jones 3/30/2000
Bigmouth Buffalo 58 lbs 
12 oz
Lake Sam Rayburn  Allen Chesney 1/29/1994
Smallmouth Buffalo 82 lbs 
3.52 oz
Lake Athens  Randy Collins 6/13/1993
Bigmouth Sleeper 0 lbs 
31.12 oz
Nueces River  Juan Sepulveda 8/27/1994
Blacktail Shiner 0 lbs 
0.48 oz
Austin Lake  Allen Bradford 8/11/1993
Blue Tilapia 6 lbs 4 oz Gibbons Creek Reservoir  Matthew Gross 12/19/1995
Hybrid Tilapia 3 lbs 
12 oz
Gibbons Creek Reservoir  Jim Butler 3/27/1993
Golden Shiner 8.32 oz Lake Placid  Brian Rankin 7/10/1996
Goldeye 2 lbs 5 oz Lake Texoma  Mandy Richmond 5/28/1996
Goldfish 5 lbs 0 oz Lake Conroe  Roy Bishoff 5/16/1994
Chain Pickerel 4 lbs 
12 oz
Pat Mayse Lake  Robert Finch 2/18/1996
Grass Pickerel 0 lbs 
7.04 oz
Lake Sam Rayburn  Pete Ellis 3/4/1995
Hybrid Corvina 20 lbs
12.8 oz
Lake Braunig  Phillip Mann 4/16/1992
Inland Silverside 0 lbs 
0.32 oz
Lake Benbrook  Del Sowders 6/5/1994
Ladyfish 0 lbs 
3.84 oz
Trinity River  Mark LaBurt 8/25/2000
Northern Pike 18 lbs 
4.48 oz
Town Lake  Mike Sharpe 8/29/1981
Olive Oscar 1 lbs 
3.36 oz
Greenbelt Reservoir  Marion Eudey 8/29/1998
Orangemouth Corvina 16 lbs 
5 oz
Calaveras Lake  Earl Tenpenny 11/15/1991
Pacu 1 lb 
12.32 oz
Claiborne West Pond  Richard Zerko 10/28/1995
Red-bellied Pacu 6 lbs  Nooks Lake  James Tant 12/5/1998
Freshwater Drum 34 lbs 
11.2 oz
Lake Texoma  Billy Walker 3/30/1995
Red Drum 36 lbs 
13.28 oz
Fairfield Lake  Billy Tyus 5/22/2001
Rio Grande Cichlid 1 lbs 
5.92 oz
Concho River  Paul Mueller 9/20/1996
River Carpsucker 2 lbs 
1.6 oz
Trinity River  Del Sowders 6/18/1996
Saugeye 7 lbs
12.5 oz
Lake Kirby  Robert Quintanilla 1/26/1998
Southern Flounder 11 lbs 
5.6 oz
Brazoria Reservoir  Glenn Comiskey 10/16/1987
Spotted Sucker 11.68 oz Lake Benbrook  Del Sowders 5/13/1994
Tarpon 10 lbs 
1.92 oz
Lake Braunig  Paul Willette 8/6/1986
Gizzard Shad 2 lbs 
10.72 oz
Town Lake  Darryl Freeman 4/12/1997
Threadfin Shad 0 lbs 
2.08 oz
Richland Chambers Reservoir  Billy Autery 11/16/1998
Tiger Muskellunge 9 lbs
1 oz
Lake Nocona  Mike Gaines 5/27/1979
Walleye 11 lbs
14.08 oz
Lake Meredith  Hank McWilliams Jr. 2/26/1990
Warmouth 1 lbs
4.8 oz
Town Lake  Ralph Manns Jr. 7/19/1991
Black Crappie 3 lbs
9.2 oz
lake Fork George Ward 4/27/2003
White Crappie 4 lbs
9 oz
Navarro Mills Lake  G.G. Wooderson 2/14/1968
Nile Perch 12 lbs
1 oz
Lake Braunig  Mike Saldiver 2/1/1980
Yellow Perch 1 lbs
.64 oz
Lake Meredith  Melvin Vick 5/3/1996
 

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