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The shortnose gar (Lepisosteus platostomus) is a primitive freshwater fish of the family Lepisosteidae. It is native to the United States where its range includes the Mississippi and Missouri River basins, ranging from Montana to the west and the Ohio River to the east, southwards to the Gulf Coast. It inhabits calm waters in large rivers and ...
The bigmouth buffalo's native distribution is confined to the countries of Canada and the United States of America. [18] It is native to the Red River of the North and Mississippi River drainage basins, from Manitoba, Canada, and North Dakota, United States, to the Ohio River and south in the Mississippi River system to Texas and Alabama.
The North Carolina state record for smallmouth buffalo is an 88 lb (40 kg) fish caught in Lake Wylie on November 14, 1993 by Tony Crawford, [15] who had previously set the state record with a 61.02 lb (27.68 kg) fish caught at the same lake on December 1, 1991, both through use of packbait.
The largest living species is the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) of the world's northern temperate oceans, also the second largest fish. The largest specimen, which was examined in 1851, measured 12.3 m (40 ft) long and weighed 16 tonnes. [1] Perhaps the most famous "big fish" is the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). Specimens ...
The location of the State of Tennessee in the United States of America. Topographic map of Tennessee. The U.S. state of Tennessee has a uniquely diverse array of fresh-water fish species, owing to its large network of rivers and creeks, with major waterways in the state including the Mississippi River which forms its western border, the Tennessee River, the Cumberland River, and the Duck River.
However, state park lakes are not included in this list because records of biggest fish aren't kept. It is worth noting that Bob M. Dearing Natchez State Park Lake produced the state record ...
An angling world record was set on May 22, 2005 with a 124-pound (56.2 kg) blue catfish caught in the Mississippi River, [17] [18] surpassing a 121.5-pound (55.1 kg) specimen from Lake Texoma in Texas. On June 18, 2011, a 143-pound (64.9 kg) blue catfish was landed from Kerr Lake on the Virginia-North Carolina border.
The American paddlefish is native to the Mississippi River basin and once moved freely under the relatively unaltered conditions that existed prior to the early 1900s. It commonly inhabited large, free-flowing rivers, braided channels, backwaters, and oxbow lakes throughout the Mississippi River drainage basin, and adjacent Gulf Coast drainages.