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Here's a list of the state records for Ohio's biggest fish ever caught. ... Lake Erie. Randy Van Dam of Kalamazoo, Michigan, on June 16, 1993. Bass, spotted: 5.25 pounds. 21 inches. Lake White.
Just how many are in Lake Erie is hard to track as most fish inventories only look at so-called game fish like walleye and perch. ... This is a big no, no.
Lake Erie is home to one of the world's largest freshwater commercial fisheries. Lake Erie's fish populations are the most abundant of the Great Lakes, partially because of the lake's relatively mild temperatures and plentiful supply of plankton, which is the basic building block of the food chain. [41]
Colton Alex, 18, of Erie, was fishing in a tournament in Lake Erie when he hooked into a large Atlantic Salmon. ... The largest one Nemet, 46, has netted in the past was about 25 inches.
The world record was caught on Nickajack Lake in Tennessee, and weighed in at 54 lb 8 oz (24.7 kg). [12] The freshwater drum is frequently gray or silvery but may be more bronze or brown colored, common in the Lake Erie population. [13]: 4 It is a deep-bodied fish with a divided dorsal fin consisting of 10 spines and approximately 30 rays. [14]
Gizzard shad were introduced into many lake and river systems as a source of food for game fish, such as walleye, bass, and trout, because of their small size and relatively high abundance. They were thought to be easy food for game fish and could help increase the numbers of fish available, as well as decrease the pressures on prey species ...
Aside from being the shallowest and warmest Great Lake, Lake Erie supplies more fish for human consumption than any other of its Great Lakes cousins. ... It's the 11th-biggest lake in the world ...
At Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, Jeff Wilkins caught a record 62-pound (28 kg) bigmouth buffalo while fishing on Percy Priest Lake. The fish, caught in the Seven Points area of the lake on March 31, 2010, was 45 inches (110 cm) in length. According to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, it took 35 minutes for Wilkins to reel in the fish. [52]