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Species	Weight	Location	Angler	Date	Photo
Atlantic Salmon	18 lbs 11.25 oz	Lake Michigan	Robert Lueckhoff	5/26/1979
Bighead Carp	43 lbs 3 oz	Lyerla Lake	Larry Hileman	5/25/1995
Black Buffalo	23 lbs 12 oz	Rock River	Ron Smith	7/27/1984
Black Bullhead	5 lbs 6 oz	strip mine lake	Justin White	4/24/1988
Black Crappie	4 lbs 8 oz	Rend Lake	John Hampton	5/15/1976
Blue Catfish	124 lbs 4 oz	Mississippi River	Tim Pruitt	5/21/2005
Bluegill Sunfish	3 lbs 8 oz	private pond	Darren May	5/10/1987
Bowfin	16 lbs 6 oz	Rend Lake	Charles R. Keller	9/23/1984
Brook Trout	7 lbs 5 oz	Lake Michigan	Daniel Frazier	11/3/1998
Brown Bullhead	1 lbs 10 oz	Weldon Springs	Shane Richardson	4/25/1993
Brown Trout	36 lbs 11.5 oz	Lake Michigan	Deva Vranek	6/22/1997
Buffalo	48 lbs 0 oz	Mississippi River	C.B. Merritt	1936
Carp	51 lbs 0 oz	Lake Hillcrest	Steve K. Davis	5/1/1994
Channel Catfish	45 lbs 4 oz	Baldwin Lake	Todd Baumeyer	2/7/1987
Chinook (King) Salmon	37 lbs 0 oz	Lake Michigan	Marge Landeen	8/7/1976
Coho Salmon	20 lbs 9 oz	Lake Michigan	Carry VandeVusse	5/24/1972
Flathead Catfish	78 lbs 0 oz	Carlyle Lake	Jody Harris	8/11/1995
Freshwater Drum	35 lbs 0 oz	DuQuoin City Lake	Joe Rinella	1960
Goldeye	2 lbs 1 oz	Embarras River	Steven D. Unzicker	7/26/1998
Grass Carp	66 lbs 8 oz	Lake Petersburg	Mark S. Metzger	7/8/1998
Green Sunfish	2 lbs 1 oz	private pond	John Stein	6/28/1981
Hybrid Bass	20 lbs 0.32 oz	Lake of Egypt	David B. Gjelsvik	6/20/1993
Hybrid Sunfish	2 lbs 4.48 oz	private pond	Georgia M. Holland	6/16/1990
Lake Trout	38 lbs 4 oz	Lake Michigan	Theodore W. Rullman	8/22/1999
Largemouth Bass	13 lbs 1 oz	Stone Quarry Lake	Edward J. Walbel	22/15/1976
Muskellunge	37 lbs 13 oz	Shabbona Lake	Chris Kim	4/1/1997
Northern Pike	26 lbs 15 oz	strip mine lake	Walter Klenzak	11/9/1989
Pink (Humpback) Salmon	3 lbs 4 oz	Lake Michigan	Neil J. Duba	7/5/1992
Rainbow Trout	31 lbs 6.72 oz	Lake Michigan	Kyle C. Johnson	7/10/1993
Redear Sunfish	2 lbs 12.3 oz	Marion CC Lake	Mike DeMattei	9/7/1985
Rock Bass	1 lbs 10 oz	Aux Sable Creek	George Nielson	5/5/1987
Sauger	5 lbs 12.5 oz	Mississippi River	Bill Rolando	7/30/1967
Saugeye	8 lbs 7.68 oz	Mississippi River	Thomas Drovesky	11/21/1998
Shortnose Gar	5 lbs 1 oz	Vermilion River	William Meyer	7/20/1999
Shovelnose Sturgeon	5 lbs 2.56 oz	Rock River	Allen Trout Jr.	5/30/1988
Smallmouth Bass	6 lbs 7 oz	strip mine lake	Mark Samp	3/26/1985
Spotted Bass	7 lbs 3.12 oz	strip mine lake	Richard Leonard	3/15/1992
Spotted Gar	7 lbs 13.4 oz	Horseshoe Lake	Danny Peters	7/10/2004
Striped Bass	31 lbs 7 oz	Sangchris Lake	Eric Shivers	5/23/1994
Tiger Muskellunge	26 lbs 9 oz	private pond	Joseph Veronda	5/4/1999
Tiger Trout	8 lbs 12.5 oz	Lake Michigan	Robert W. Zimmy	6/26/1977
Walleye	14 lbs 0 oz	Kankakee River	Fred Goselin	1961
Warmouth	1 lbs 13 oz	private pond	Wesley Mills	5/22/1971
White Bass	4 lbs 14 oz	Kaskaskia River	Bruce Wilson	10/7/1981
White Crappie	4 lbs 7 oz	private pond	Kevin Dennis	4/8/1973
Yellow Bass	2 lbs 0 oz	private pond	Jimmy Kostoff Jr.	5/5/1994
Yellow Bullhead	5 lbs 4 oz	Fox River	Bill Snow	1955
Yellow Perch	2 lbs 8.75 oz	Arrowhead Club Lake	Joseph Grega	1/5/1974

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