Catch and Release Fish Records

Length Record - Catch and Release Game Fish

Species Length (in.) Location Angler Date
Arctic Grayling 16.2 Alpine Creek Lake #13 Brian Brooks 07/04/2020
Black Crappie 17 Crane Creek Reservoir Jon Urban 07/27/2020
Bluegill 11.5 Cave Lake Elisa Rose 04/10/2016
Blue Catfish 42.5" CJ Strike Reservoir Paul Newman 07/20/2022
Bonneville Cisco 7.8 Bear Lake Afton Garren 01/22/2016
Bonneville Cutthroat 28.5 Bear Lake Gaylon Newbold 04/21/2016
Bonneville Whitefish 21 Bear Lake Gaylon Newbold 12/10/2019
Species Length (in.) Location Angler Date
Brook Trout 22 Henrys Lake Kazen Cromar 12/11/2016
Brown Trout 30 Snake River Chase Newton 10/18/2016
Bull Trout 39 Lake Pend Oreille Matthew Lutzke 01/19/2021
Bullhead Catfish 14.25 Spring Valley Reservoir Sydney Schoth 06/21/2021
Burbot 14.3 Bonner Lake L. Katie Lambert 03/05/2022
Species Length (in.) Location Angler Date
Channel Catfish 33 Lake Lowell Reed Monson 07/24/2020
Chinook Salmon (fresh water) 28 Anderson Ranch Reservoir Michael and Andrea Wehrer Nicholson 06/15/2016
Chinook Salmon (ocean run) 41.5 Salmon River Michael Nicholson 07/04/2016
Coho Salmon (ocean run) 30 North Fork Clearwater River Jerry Smith 11/13/2022
Flathead Catfish 43 Snake River Jared Holt 07/09/2022
Gerrard Rainbow Trout 36.5 Lake Pend Oreille

Sophie Egizi

10/11/2019
Golden Trout 21.3 Pass Lake James Taylor 08/29/2020
Green Sunfish 8 Boise River Jon Urban 06/06/2022
Green Sunfish/Bluegill hybrid 8 Eagle Island Park Pond Hayleigh Urban 08/28/2020
Kokanee Salmon 22.8 Big Elk Creek Rob Mackesey 08/29/2020
Species Length (in.) Location Angler Date
Lahontan Cutthroat Trout 21.75 Grasmere Reservoir Jordan Rodriguez 12/17/2022
Lake Trout 41.5 Payette Lake Dylan Smith 07/21/2018
Lake Whitefish 24.5 Lake Pend Oreille Corey Comstock 05/11/2020
Largemouth Bass 25 Cave Lake JJ Schillinger 10/19/2019
Mountain Whitefish 21.5 Salmon River Tyler Coleman 8/27/2022
Northern Pike 49 Coeur d'Alene Lake Scott Blahnik 10/20/2020
Species Length (in.) Location Angler Date
Pumpkinseed 9 Chase Lake, Bonner County Rick Poedtke 05/31/2018
Rainbow/Cutthroat Hybrid Trout 36 Henrys Lake Hailey Thomas 10/4/2022
Rainbow Trout 31.25 American Falls Reservoir Brett Jones 05/25/2020
Smallmouth Bass 23.75 Dworshak Reservoir Joey Walton 12/16/2022
Species Length (in.) Location Angler Date
Steelhead 39.25 South Fork Clearwater River Scott Turner 04/11/2021
Sunapee Trout 10 Sawtooth Lake #1 Grady Prairie 07/18/2021
Tiger Muskellunge 40 Lake Cascade Nicholas Percy 08/29/2017
Tiger Trout 22 Deer Creek Reservoir Jase Groesbeck 06/17/2022
Walleye 31.5 Salmon Falls Creek Reservoir Russell Isaak 09/16/2016
Warmouth 7.5 CJ Strike Reservoir Tyler Urban 05/26/2021
Westslope Cutthroat Trout 24 Priest Lake Madison Nackos 05/29/2021
Species Length (in.) Location Angler Date
White Crappie 15.25 Sawyers Pond Joey Brandes 07/09/2021
White Sturgeon 124 CJ Strike Reservoir Greg Poulsen 08/05/2022
Species Length (in.) Location Angler Date
Yellow Perch 17 Cascade Lake David Ekmark 05/05/2018
Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout 31 Snake River Nate Burr 09/08/2020

 

Length Record - Catch and Release Nongame Fish

Species Length (in.) Location Angler Date
Bridgelip Sucker 17 Lemhi River Eric Geisthardt 05/18/2021
Common Carp 38 American Falls Reservoir Dayton Schild 06/15/2022
Grass Carp 40 Marsing Pond Joe Bonawitz 08/25/2019
Largescale Sucker 27.7 Cascade Reservoir Gary Hardesty 04/9/2016
Northern Pikeminnow 27 Snake River Kaden Hammer 8/04/2022
Peamouth Chub 13.5 CJ Strike Reservoir Wayne Scott

07/24/2016

Tench 19 Coeur d’Alene Lake Mike Nunemacher 05/31/2020
Tench 18.7 Coeur d’Alene Lake Avery Arrhenius 08/03/2018
Tilapia 15 Snake River Dave Gassel 02/21/2017
Utah Sucker 25 Snake River Rick Thompson 03/19/2021
Utah Chub 18 American Falls Reservoir Kaden Hammer 01/29/2022
Species Length (in.) Location Angler Date