Game and Fish Records

In doing research, in answer to your question, these are best records I can find. I would suggest if you have any information on a different record to contact the Maine Sportsman - keeper of offical records. Biologists will mention that bigger game and fish are out in the wilds of Maine, some trapped and released, others that have not been verified or certified. My suggestion is that if you have a game or fish that you think is a record - you get it properly tagged, weighed and certified!

Game Records:

Whitetailed Buck (Firearms): 355 Ibs., field dressed, Horace Hinckley, Augusta,
ME, 1955, Concord

Whitetailed Buck (Bowhunting): 259 Ibs., field dressed, Darryl Flagg, Jefferson,
10/20/1988, Waldoboro

Whitetailed Doe (Firearms): 185 Ibs., field dressed, Luke Arsenault, Lisbon
Falls, ME, 11/1/92, Seboomook Township

Whitetailed Doe (Firearms): 185 Ibs., field dressed, Steve Letourneau, Turner,
ME, 11/11/04, Lower Enchanted Township

Whitetailed Doe (Bowhunting): 166 Ibs., field dressed, Joseph Kennedy,
Litchfield, ME, 9/13/05, Cape Elizabeth

Whitetailed Doe (Antlered): 210 Ibs., eight-points, Jack Cross, Bethel, ME,
11/15/80, Bethel

Black Bear (Firearms): 680 Ibs. (live weight), Richard Moore, Allentown,
PA, 9/13/93, Patten - understand Thousand Acre Bog, with hounds.

Black Bear (Archery): 501 Ibs., field dressed, Pete Shippee, Winthrop, ME,
8/29/90, Strong

Black Bear (Sow): 334.5 Ibs., field dressed, Tom Sullivan, Portland, Conn., August 28, 2006, Mapleton 10/31/87, Canton

Black Bear (Sow – Archery) 328 pounds, Kyle Stokes, Annville, PA, 8/29/2007, St. Agatha.

Moose (Bull) 1,330 Ibs., 1982 field dressed, Willard & Sterling, Waterman, New Gloucester, ME, 1982, Marsardis.

Moose (Bull-Archery) 1,040 Ibs., Craig Warren, New Gloucester, ME, 9/30/2009, Allagash.

Moose, cow: 774 Ibs., Mark McKenna, Jay, ME, 10/13/05, Dyer Brook.

Turkey: 27 Ibs. 12 oz., Sarah Levangie, Belfast, ME, 4/28/03, Waldo County.

Turkey (Bow): 25 Ibs., Chris Nadeau, Wells, ME, 5/1/07, Wells Falls

Coyote NEED THE COYOTE RECORD - Verified Please

Note: If you know of a verifiable fish or game record larger than those listed here, or for a species not listed here, please send the information to: Harry Vanderweide, The Maine Sportsman, PO Box 351, Augusta, Maine 04332 Email: harry.vanderweide@verizon.net


Fishing Records

Atlantic Salmon 28 lbs 1 oz Undisclosed Howard Clifford 10/9/1980
Black Crappie 3 lbs 4 oz Sibley Pond Wayne S. Morey Sr. 9/12/1986
Blueback Trout 4 lbs 4 oz Basin Pond Merton Wyman 1958
5.24 8/2008 Pushineer Pond Craig McLaughlin, Mapleton
Brook Trout 9 lbs 0 oz Square Pond Mark Collins 5/15/1997
Brown Trout 23 lbs 5 oz Square Pond Robert Hodson 3/6/1996
Chain Pickerel 6 lbs 8 oz Androscoggin Lake Joseph Arsenault 2/11/1992
7.02 3/07 Balch Lake
Cusk 33 lbs 4 oz Perkins Cove, Ogunquit Kenton Geer 10/11/2002
Fallfish 3 lbs 12 oz Sibley Pond Wayne S. Morey 9/12/1986
Lake Trout 31 lbs 8 oz Beech Hill Pond Hollis Grindle 1958
Landlocked Salmon 22 lbs 8 oz Sebago Lake Edward Balkely 1907
Largemouth Bass 11 lbs 10 oz Moose Pond Robert Kamp 1968
Muskellunge 26 lbs 8 oz Glazier Lake Allen Dufour 3/22/2001
31.02 3/07 Glazier Lake, Jeff Albert
Northern Pike 31 lbs 2 oz North Pond Lance Bolduc 3/1998
Smallmouth Bass 8 lbs 0 oz Thompson Lake George Dyer 1970
Splake 10 lbs 3 oz Mount Vernon Daniel R. Paquette 5/8/1993
Sunapee Trout 4 lbs 10 oz Lower South Branch Pond Wayne Dillon 6/1989
White Perch 4 lbs 10 oz Messalonskee Mrs. Earl Small 1959 (? bass/altered)
3.2 2008 Little Parker Pond, Chris Barbier
Whitefish 7 lbs 8 oz Sebago Lake Neil Sullivan 1958
Yellow Perch 1 lbs 10 oz Worthley Pond Chad Mostats 8/1989
Striped Bass 67. 9/78 Sheepscot River, Doug Dodge