Harford
County Yellow Perch Sets World Record
3/20/2006
Last weekend, Phil Deer, Jr. of Delta, Pennsylvania caught a record
setting yellow perch in a pond in Harford County. The perch is the largest
ever caught in Maryland and the fourth largest on record in the world. DNR
confirmed the perch’s size as 3 pounds, 5 ounces and 16 ¼ inches long,
which eclipsed the Maryland record of 2 pounds 6.75 ounces set at Deep
Creek Lake in 2003. Worldwide, Deer’s fish places behind a 4 pound, 3
ounce perch caught in New Jersey in 1865; a 3 pound, 12 ounce perch caught
in Michigan in 1947; and a 3 pound, 8 ounce perch caught in New York in
1982. All records are for the fresh water division.