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
3126	Hawaii anglers split over measure to ban the use of drones for fishing	hawaii newsnow	2022-05-12	US
3127	Pennsylvania takes action to prevent invasive snakehead fish from taking over Susquehanna River	WGAL	2022-05-13	US
3128	Indonesia cancels fisheries infrastructure projects in Maluku region amid lack of funds	mongabay	2022-05-11	ID
3129	Fish make sounds that could help scientists protect them	washingtonpost	2022-05-10	US
3130	Commercial fishermen concerned recreational fishing is leading to overfishing	fox4now	2022-05-12	US
3131	Colorado fish named after racial slur has been renamed	nbc11news	2022-05-13	US
3132	Евросанкции не помешают ловить рыбу	Рыболовство	2022-05-25	RU
3133	Meet the Lumpsuckers. Shedd’s Newcomer Is a Fish That Can Barely Swim, Is Covered in Teeth	wttw	2022-05-06	US
3134	Millions of tonnes of dead animals: the growing scandal of fish waste	theguardian	2022-05-09	UK
3135	Research Team Uses Green Light to Make Fish Grow 60% Faster	nippon	2022-05-10	JP
3136	Perth scientists reel in deepest fish ever caught in Australian waters	9news	2022-05-10	AU
3137	US fishing haul fell 10% during first pandemic year	apnews	2022-05-12	US
3138	Taiwan study finds large amounts of microplastics in fish	taipeitimes	2022-05-08	TW
3139	Sardines: The interesting story of how this fish got its name	pulse	2022-05-08	NG
3140	High levels of persistent chemicals found in some Maine fish	wabi	2022-05-05	US
3141	52,000 Fish Die After Low Water Trapped Them In Kansas City's Brush Creek	kcur	2021-06-17	US
3142	Low flows, high temperatures killing fish in Okanagan creeks	pentictonwesternnews	2021-08-07	CA
3143	'Acute intoxication' blamed for massive fish kill in Ottawa River	CTV Ottawa	2019-07-18	CA
3144	Up to a million fish dead: Murray-Darling River disaster worsens	2gb	2019-08-01	AU
3145	Tonnes of dead fish wash up on shore of polluted Lebanese lake	saltwire	2021-04-30	LB
3146	Record spring salmon run on Butte Creek turns into disaster	redgreenandblue	2021-08-01	US
3147	High fish mortality rates possible after record-breaking B.C. floods	Global News	2021-11-25	CA
3148	P.E.I. river fish kills called 'catastrophic'	CBC News	2011-07-27	CA
3149	Trout colony thriving in urbanized stream / Discovery buoys effort to restore Codornices Creek	sfgate	2004-09-09	US
3150	First Chinook salmon reported in Codornices Creek	berkeleyside	2012-12-05	US

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