Miscellaneous

What is the biggest fish in Grand Lake?

What is the biggest fish in Grand Lake?

Grand Lake’s biggest paddlefish was taken with a trotline in 1992 and weighed 134 pounds. The state rod and reel record is a 125-pound, 7-ounce fish taken from the Arkansas River in 2011. Rider says another one of his fishing goals is to catch a giant catfish (maybe even a Grand Lake record).

What is the biggest catfish caught on Grand Lake?

flathead catfish
The world record weight for a flathead catfish is 123.9 pounds. Flathead catfish are a major predator in Grand Lake and ones weighing more than 50 pounds have been caught locally, said state wildlife official Debbie Wolters of the Piqua office.

What’s the biggest fish ever caught in Oklahoma?

alligator gar
Paul Easley of Mead landed the biggest fish ever caught in Oklahoma last Thursday when he snagged an 8-foot alligator gar from Lake Texoma that weighed 254 pounds. The beast easily beat the old state record of 192 pounds.

What is the world record paddlefish?

A paddlefish caught on Keystone Lake in Oklahoma broke a new world and state record, according to the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.

What fish are biting at Grand Lake OK?

Fishing for largemouth bass, spotted bass, channel catfish, flathead catfish, blue catfish, black crappie, white crappie, walleye, bluegill, green sunfish, redear sunfish, white bass, hybrid striped bass and paddlefish at Grand Lake of the Cherokees in Oklahoma.

What type of fish are in Grand Lake OK?

White crappie
Largemouth bassBluegillSmallmouth bassChannel catfish
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What is the largest catfish ever caught in the world?

Mekong giant catfish
The Mekong giant catfish is the official freshwater heavyweight champion of the world. According to the Guinness Book of Records, a nine-foot-long individual caught in northern Thailand in 2005 weighted an astounding 646 pounds, making it the largest exclusively freshwater fish ever recorded.

What is the biggest fish ever caught?

great white shark
The largest fish ever caught which is verified and listed by the IGFA is a 2,664lb (1208kg) great white shark. It was caught by Australian angler Alfred Dean in April 1959 off the coast of Ceduna, in South Australia.

What is the biggest fish caught in Lake Eufaula Oklahoma?

The biggest fish ever caught in the state is a 254-pound alligator gar.

What is the biggest fish caught in Lake Texoma?

gar
What has to happen for a state or lake record to become official? Easley’s 254-lb 12-oz trophy gar is not only the largest fish caught in Lake Texoma, but it’s the largest fish ever caught in the state of Oklahoma, in any body of water. And it was caught by snagging, which is illegal in Texas.

What’s the heaviest fish ever caught?

According to IGFA records, the largest fish ever caught was a great white shark that weighed an unbelievable 2,664 pounds (1,208.389 kg.). Caught off the coast of Ceduna, Australia, in 1959, it took angler Alfred Dean just 50 minutes to win the fight against this one-ton shark.

What is the biggest fish ever caught on rod and reel?

Great White Shark
The record goes to the legendary Captain Frank Mundus, who was the inspiration for Captain Quint in the famous movie Jaws. In August 1986 Mundus and Donnie Braddick brought in the largest fish EVER caught by rod and reel. Using 150 pound test line, the pair reeled in a 3,427 pound Great White Shark!