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33 New Fish Added To GON’s Record List
Brad Gill | February 2, 2022
Since last February’s printing of GON’s Georgia Lake and River Records list, we’ve added 33 fish to the list, up from the 31 fish we added in 2021 and 27 fish that were added in 2020.
GON’s exclusive list is always available at GON.com. You never need to wonder if you have a possible record fish or not. From the boat, you can simply log onto GON.com to see if your fish is in the ballpark. From there, you’ll need to follow the steps in the tan box at the bottom of this story.
Joe DiPietro with the Toccoa River brown trout record caught on Feb. 28.
Shannon Campbell with the Oconee River bowfin record. She was trolling a minnow for crappie in an oxbo lake when she caught the 5-lb., 2.4-oz. fish.
Ralph Evans with the new lake-record black crappie from Lake Allatoona.
Larry Cason has Lake Sinclair’s first-ever spotted bass record. This fish weighed 3-lbs., 9.76-ozs.
Michael Madryga and his son Blair with the new Lake Lanier shellcracker record.
Jackson Lance and his 10-year-old son Jack with the new Coosawattee River record striped bass. The 30-lb., 12.8-oz. striper was caught by Jackson on June 12. The story is at www.gon.com/fishing/striped-bass-sets-coosawattee-river-record.
This record could stand for a while. Gary Sammons caught this 9 1/2-pounder from the Ohoopee River on July 30. It was the second time in about a month this record had been broken. The previous record—caught in mid June 2021—weighed 6 1/2 pounds.
Satilla River had three new entries in 2021, the most for any body of water in the state of Georgia last year. Here’s the south Georgia river’s latest warmouth record, caught by Ethan Moody on June 10.
Dalton Smith with a very nice channel catfish from the Savannah River that he caught last April. It’s the current record at 25-lbs., 6-ozs.
Cooper Henley with the Lake Lanier record common carp record. This lake record changed hands several times in 2021 and finally landed on this 14-lb., 10.24-oz. fish, at least for now.
Mark McClure caught multiple yellow perch on Lake Chatuge on April 19, 2021, including the new lake record.
Amanda Parker said she felt blessed to be the new record holder for Tired Creek largemouth. Read her story at www.gon.com/fishing/tired-creek-bass-record-broken-again.
T.R. Clark with his 54-lb. blue catfish that sets the bar high on West Point. He caught it from a kayak, and the story is told at www.gon.com/fishing/west-point-blue-catfish-record-kayak-angler.
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