Not all the big ones get away.
Big fish–some the biggest of their kind caught anywhere-are regularly pullled out of Georgia waters.
The most famous record fish caught in Georgia, is the largemouth bass George Perry landed at Montgomery Lake in Telfair County way back in June 1932. The behemoth weighed in at 22 pounds, 4 ounces.
Breaking that record remains an obsessive quest for sportsmen around the world.
Other world-record fish caught in Georgia include a 4-pound, 15-ounce yellow bullhead catfish pulled from the Ogeechee River in October 2003, and a 1-pound, 4-ounce flier sunfish hooked at a Lowndes County pond.
Want to know how your lunker measures up?
Here a few state records:
Flathead catfish- 83 pounds
Striped Bass- 63 pounds
Rainbow Trout- 17 pounds, 8 ounces
White crappie- 5 pounds
Bluegill Sunfish- 3 pounds, 5 ounces
Walleye- 11 pounds, 6 ounces
Blacktip shark- 148 pounds
Tarpon- 161 pounds
Bull shark- 455 pounds
Warsaw grouper- 252 pounds