The Lakes That Produce the Most Record-Breaking Fish

Original Source: World Atlas

The Santee Cooper lakes brought warm-water fishing and one of the oldest records here into the same story. W. B. Whaley caught the 58 lb 0 oz (26.3 kg) all-tackle world-record channel catfish in this South Carolina system on July 7, 1964. The record covers Lakes Marion and Moultrie, the two big reservoirs that make up the Santee Cooper system. It is a Lowcountry fishery of cypress trees and wide, open water, a world away from the cold northern lakes higher on this list. More than 60 years on, no channel catfish has topped Whaley’s.

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