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| Species | Weight | Length (in) | Girth (in) | Location Caught | Date | Angler |
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| bass, largemouth | 21 lbs 12 oz | Castaic Lake at the main boat ramp (Los Angeles) | March 5, 1991 | Michael Arujo (Santa Monica) | ||
| bass, smallmouth | 9 lbs 13 oz | 24.75 | 18.5 | Pardee Reservoir (Amador) | July 3, 2007 | Harold Hardin (Stockton) |
| bass, spotted | 10 lbs 4 oz | Pine Flat Lake (Fresno) | May 3, 2001 | Brian Shishido (Lindsay) | ||
| bass, striped | 67 lbs 8 oz | O'Neill Forebay (Merced) | May 7, 1992 | Hank Ferguson (Soquel) | ||
| bass, white | 5 lbs 5 oz | Ferguson Lake (Riverside) | May 8, 1972 | Milton Mize (Chula Vista) | ||
| bluegill | 3 lbs 14 oz | 14.3 | 18.5 | Rancho Murieta Reservoir (Sacramento) | June 22, 2008 | Michael Holoubek (Elk Grove) |
| catfish, blue | 113 lbs 5 oz | 57 | 39 | San Vicente Reservoir (San Diego) | July 24, 2008 | Steve Oudomsouk (San Diego) |
| catfish, bullhead, brown | 4 lbs 8 oz | Trinity Lake (Trinity) | October 7, 1993 | Gary Dittenbir (Lewiston) | ||
| catfish, channel | 53 lbs 8 oz | 46.5 | 36 | San Joaquin River (Stanislaus) | September 22, 2008 | Randall Gilgert Jr. (Turlock) |
| catfish, flathead | 72 lbs 14 oz | 53.5 | 36 | Colorado River (Riverside) | April 22, 2003 | Billy Joe Potter (Blythe) |
| catfish, white | 22 lbs 0 oz | Land Park pond (Sacramento) | March 21, 1994 | James Robinson (Sacramento) | ||
| crappie, black | 4 lbs 1 oz | New Hogan Lake (Calaveras) | March 29, 1975 | Wilma Honey (Lodi) | ||
| crappie, white | 4 lbs 8 oz | Clear Lake (Lake) | April 26, 1971 | Carol Carlton (Lakeport) | ||
| croaker, corvina, orangemouth | 37 lbs 0 oz | Salton Sea (Imperial) | July 15, 1988 | Dick Van Dam (Chino) | ||
| croaker, sargo | 4 lbs 1 oz | Salton Sea (Imperial) | 1972 | Mike Leonte (Thermal) | ||
| grayling, Arctic | 1 lbs 12 oz | Lobdell Lake (Mono) | August 27, 1974 | Don Acton (Bishop) | ||
| minnow, carp | 52 lbs 0 oz | Lake Nacimiento (San Luis Obispo) | April 1968 | Lee Bryant (Fresno) | ||
| perch, Sacramento | 3 lbs 10 oz | Crowley Lake (Mono) | May 22, 1979 | Jack Johnson (Carson) | ||
| pumpkinseed | 1 lbs 0 oz | Mountain Meadows Reservoir (Lassen) | August 4, 1998 | Dave Smith (Richmond) | ||
| salmon, Chinook | 88 lbs 0 oz | Sacramento River (Shasta) | November 21, 1979 | O. Lindberg (Red Bluff) | ||
| salmon, Chinook, Inland | 11 lbs 3 oz | 27.5 | 18.5 | Trinity Lake (Trinity) | August 13, 2012 | Mike Elster (Roseville) |
| salmon, coho | 22 lbs 0 oz | 38.5 | Paper Mill Creek (Marin) | January 3, 1959 | Milton Hain (Fairfax) | |
| salmon, coho, Inland | 8 lbs 1 oz | 26.5 | 16 | Lake Oroville (Butte) | March 3, 2012 | Hoshua Giordano (Oroville) |
| salmon, kokanee | 4 lbs 13 oz | Lake Tahoe (Placer) | August 1, 1973 | Dick Bournique (South Lake Tahoe) | ||
| salmon, pink | 8 lbs 11 oz | Sacramento River (Shasta) | September 22, 2001 | Mike Daily (Red Bluff) | ||
| shad, American | 7 lbs 5 oz | West Branch of the Feather River (Butte) | May 9, 1985 | Craig Stillwell | ||
| sturgeon, white | 468 lbs 0 oz | San Pablo Bay (Contra Costa) | July 9, 1983 | Joey Pallotta (Crockett) | ||
| sunfish, redear | 5 lbs 3 oz | Folsom South Canal (Sacramento) | June 27, 1994 | Anthony White (Citrus Heights) | ||
| sunfish, warmouth | 0 lbs 15 oz | 9 | 8.75 | Hensley Lake (Madera) | May 21, 2004 | Russell Jacobs (Fresno) |
| tilapia | 6 lbs 0 oz | 20 | 16 | Palo Verde Lagoon (Imperial) | April 5, 2007 | Gary Horton (Palo Verde) |
| trout, brook | 9 lbs 12 oz | Silver Lake (Mono) | September 9, 1932 | Texas Haynes | ||
| trout, brown | 26 lbs 8 oz | Twin Lakes (Mono) | April 30, 1987 | Danny Stearman (Bakersfield) | ||
| trout, bull | 9 lbs 11 oz | Lake McCloud (Shasta) | May 1968 | James McCloud | ||
| trout, cutthroat, wild | 31 lbs 8 oz | Lake Tahoe (Placer) | 1911 | William Pomin | ||
| trout, golden | 9 lbs 8 oz | Virginia Lake (Fresno) | August 18, 1952 | O. Benefield (Compton) | ||
| trout, lake | 37 lbs 6 oz | Lake Tahoe (Placer) | June 21, 1974 | Robert Aronsen (South Lake Tahoe) | ||
| trout, rainbow | 27 lbs 0 oz | 37.5 | 26 | Lake Natoma (Sacramento) | October 2, 2005 | Frank Palmer (Orangevale) |
| trout, rainbow, domestic | 28 lbs 5 oz | 33.5 | 26.5 | Private lake (Butte) | January 3, 2006 | James Harrold (Cohasset) |
| trout, steelhead rainbow | 27 lbs 4 oz | Smith River (Del Norte) | December 22, 1976 | Robert Halley (Crescent City) | ||
| whitefish, mountain | 3 lbs 1 oz | 20 | 10.75 | Lake Tahoe (Placer) | January 24, 2004 | Gregg Harris (Truckee) |
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