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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