Illinois Fishing Records

This is a list of all the fish species in Illinois and the largest in mass caught to this date.

Species name Weight Location
Atlantic Salmon 18 lbs 11.25 oz Lake Michigan
Bighead Carp 43 lbs 3oz Lyerla Lake
Black buffalo 23 lbs 12oz Rock River
Black Bullhead 5 lbs 6oz strip mine lake
Black Crappie 4 lbs 8oz Rend Lake
Blue catfish 124 lbs 4oz Mississippi River
Bluegill/Sunfish 5 lbs 12oz Goose Lake
Bowfin 16 lbs 6oz Rend Lake
Brook Trout 7 lbs 5oz Lake Michigan
Brown Bullhead 2 lbs 7oz Bayles Lake (Illinois)
Brown Trout 36 lbs 11.5oz Lake Michigan
Buffalo 48 lbs 0oz Mississippi River
Carp 51 lbs 0oz Lake Hillcrest
Channel Catfish 45 lbs 4oz Baldwin Lake
Chinook salmon 37 lbs 0oz Lake Michigan
Coho Salmon 20 lbs 9oz Lake Michigan
Flathead Catfish 81 lbs 6.4oz Sangchris Lake
Freshwater Drum 35 lbs 0oz Duquoin City Lake
Goldeye 2 lbs 1oz Embarras River
Grass Carp 66 lbs 8oz Lake Petersburg, Illinois
Green Sunfish 2 lbs 1oz Bayles Lake (Illinois)
Hybrid Bass 20 lbs 0.32oz Lake of Egypt
Hybrid Sunfish 3 lbs 4.48oz Bayles Lake (Illinois)
Lake Trout 38 lbs 4oz Lake Michigan
Largemouth Bass 13 lbs 9oz Stone Quarry Lake
Muskellunge (Musky) 37 lbs 15oz Shabbona Lake State Park
Northern Pike 26 lbs 15oz strip mine lake
Pink salmon 3 lbs 4oz Lake Michigan
Rainbow Trout 31 lbs 6.72oz Lake Michigan
Redear Sunfish 2 lbs 12.3oz Marion CC Lake
Rock Bass 1 lbs 10oz Aux Sable Creek
Sauger 5 lbs 12.5oz Mississippi River
Saugeye 8 lbs 7.68oz Mississippi River
Shortnose gar 5 lbs 1oz Vermilion River
Shovelnose sturgeon 5 lbs 2.56oz Rock River
Smallmouth Bass 6 lbs 7oz strip mine lake
Spotted Bass 7 lbs 3.12oz strip mine lake
Spotted gar 7 lbs 13.4 oz Horseshoe Lake
Striped Bass 31 lbs 7oz Sangchris Lake
Tiger muskellunge (Musky) 26 lbs 9oz private pond
Tiger Trout 8 lbs 12.5oz Lake Michigan
Walleye 15 lbs 9oz Bayles Lake (Illinois)
Warmouth 1 lbs 13oz private pond
White Bass 4 lbs 14oz Kaskaskia River
White Crappie 4 lbs 7oz Bayles Lake (Illinois)
Yellow Bass 2 lbs 0oz Lake Iroquois, Illinois
Yellow Bullhead 5 lbs 4oz Fox River (Illinois River tributary)
Yellow Perch 2 lbs 8.75oz Arrowhead Club Lake

References

    http://www.landbigfish.com/staterecords/records.cfm?state=Illinois

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