Biggest fish ever caught in Massachusetts

Biggest fish ever caught in Massachusetts

Source: wwlp

7/25/2022

In 2012, Shane Felch caught a 46 pound, 5 ounce carp from Quinsigamond Lake in Shrewsbury. According to MassWildlife, this is the state’s largest freshwater fish ever caught and recorded.

The record of biggest freshwater fish ever caught goes as far back as 1966 when Dana Deblois caught a 19 pound, 10 ounce brown trout in the Wachusett Reservoir in Worcester County. As for western Massachusetts, the biggest fish ever caught and recorded was a 27 pound tiger muskellunge in 2001, caught by James Lambert. Here are the records for largest freshwater fish ever caught in the Commonwealth.

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News Id		Source	Stamp	country
3501	Banff lake may be drained to stop spread of deadly whirling disease in fish	CBC News	2016-11-08	CA
3502	Why conservationists are using facial recognition on fish	itnews	2016-11-17	CA
3503	Aklavik man 'jiggles' a whopping 1-metre-long loche fish	CBC News	2016-11-20	CA
3504	Allowing bottom trawlers to fish in protected areas like 'bulldozing through a nature reserve	itv	2021-07-22	UK
3505	Необычный моряк из Мурманска	VK	2021-08-21	RU
3506	Two drone sailboats set sail on Lake Michigan to collect data on fish	woodtv	2021-07-28	CA
3507	From hake to skate: Behind the push to bring 'unknown' fish to New England's dinner table	providencejournal	2021-07-29	US
3508	Seven-foot-long fish is 'largest ever seen in Manchester'	telegraph	2016-12-13	UK
3509	Eel not be right: Mass fish deaths at lake under investigation	stuff	2016-12-16	NZ
3510	New species of fish in Hawaii waters named after Obama	hawaii news now	2016-12-21	US
3511	This Russian fisherman has been showing off the nightmarish fish he finds	irish examiner	2016-12-21	RU
3512	Holy carp: how fish farming saved a Polish nunnery	the guardian	2016-12-24	UK
3513	Caviar, climate change and a Great Lakes fish	michigan radio	2016-12-16	US
3514	Pollution and climate change threaten fish in Ecuador’s Amazon region	Latin America News	2021-07-31	BR
3515	Fish managers say salmon runs ‘could have been worse,’ after underwater video shows heat-stressed salmon	NWNews	2021-07-28	US
3516	Massive and mysterious, a 100-pound fish washed ashore in Oregon. Scientists hope to learn its secrets	The Washington Post	2021-07-18	US
3517	'Largest' recorded chum salmon run: 2 million fish overload nets, burden boats	CBC News	2016-11-04	CA
3518	North Carolina man hooks massive 112-pound catfish while fishing	cbsnews	2016-12-02	US
3519	New England fish believed to be spotted feeding in Nova Scotia's Clyde River	CBC News	2021-07-23	CA
3520	St. Louis teen breaks dad’s state record fish; Reels in 7th record for 2021	wsiltv	2021-07-20	US
3521	Angler smashes British record when he takes 15 minutes, two broken nets and one maggot to land 34lb fish	dailymail	2016-10-26	UK
3522	7,800 lake sturgeon, a 'culturally significant fish species,' released into Michigan waters	mlive	2019-01-19	US
3523	Вылов лосося в России в 2021 году вырос на 14%	tass	2021-08-17	RU
3524	350-pound fish shocks anglers when it leaps out of the water	foxnews	2021-07-23	CA
3525	How Scientists Are Bringing Back Sturgeons, Fish That Once Swam With Dinosaurs	discovermagazine	2021-07-23	CA

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