The phone was ringing this morning way before I wanted to wake up. I thought to myself: ?Sunday morning and it is barely light out?. it has to be an emergency or one of the fools I fish with wanting to brag about a big trout they caught.?


I rolled over and let the answering machine answer it.


I checked the answering machine after I got up. It wasn?t a fool but it was a friend wanting to brag about his personal best brown trout.


He sent me a photo.


You be the judge.


How big do you think Mark?s GIANT small stream brown is?


Should he have woke me up at 6:50 am on a Sunday morning to give me the news?



have never seen a Minnesota small stream trout release photo that looks like this.



The thing looks like a muskie.