After making changes to the record fish program, the Minnesota DNR has seen steady interest by anglers in documenting their largest catches, as evidenced by the nine new state-record fish the Minnesota DNR has certified since March.
The DNR in March expanded the catch-and-release record category to add additional species, and also made more space for records in the certified weight category by creating a separate category for records established before a certified scale was required to document a fish’s weight in 1980.

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