Fishing World Records. Use the search form above to find fishing world records for freshwater fish, saltwater fish, and more. The walleye at the top of this trophy case was caught in 1982 by Al Nelson of Higden during a tournament sponsored by Pepsi Cola and Fairfield Bay on Greer's Ferry Lake. Tim Geni, 51, of Wilcox, Saskatchewan, hooked, landed, and released a walleye that measured 33.75 inches in length and 19.375 inches in girth on January 5, 2011. Holding a world record on a popular game fish such as northern pike is what many anglers dream of all their lives. The huge walleye nailed a PK spoon jigged through the ice on Last Mountain Lake, north of Regina. Leier’s catch broke a record that had stood for nearly 60 years. Large walleye statue at Lake Mille Lacs in Garrison, Minnesota. On March 1, 2014, Tia and her dad, Gary, set up on Lake Cascade expecting to catch a yellow perch. lists as the all-tackle world record a 25-pound walleye caught from Old Hickory Lake … The Wiese’s had no idea just how big one of their catches would be. World Record Perch. Search for the biggest fish in the International Game Fish Association's database of biggest fish for each species. by Walleye.com | Jan 24, 2015 | Walleye Fishing Articles. For the sake of comparison, the International Game Fish Assn. The record still belongs to Neal Leier for his catch of a 15-pound, 13-ounce walleye last May on the Missouri River. And by the way, that runt is the fish in the lower part of the display. A new state record, it replaced a 21 pound 12 ounce runt caught in 1979 on the same lake. A retired Saskatchewan police officer hopes to claim the ice fishing world record for catch-and-release walleye. The world record for walleye was registered at 22 pounds 11 ounces. Bradley Befus had that dream come true twice during a fishing trip to Alaska in August 1996 when he set two separate tippet class records on northern pike. The weight was 22 pounds 11 ounces. Last winter, 12-year-old Tia Wiese and her dad went ice fishing expecting to catch some big fish. WORLD RECORD WALLEYE. It was caught in 1982 during a fishing tournament on Greer's Ferry Lake in Arkansas. The current all-tackle world record for a walleye is held by Mabry Harper, who caught an 11.34-kg (25-lb) walleye in Old Hickory Lake in Tennessee on August 2, 1960. Cultural aspects. Al Nelson of Higden, Arkansas caught the record breaking walleye during a fishing tournament sponsored by Pepsi-Cola and Fairfield Bay.