New record brown trout

[rainbowchaser]

http://www.3news.co.nz/New-Zealands-...9/Default.aspx

The interview shows him using a fly rod but doesn't make it clear that he was fly fishing when he caught the fish.

[Uncle Jesse]

Whatever he was using I am sure he had it in his hands for quite a while battling that monster. It looked like a difference species than the photo of the world record caught in a harbor around Milwaukee in 2011 (photo attached.) Living downstream from a salmon farm is probably the result of the big abdomen and small head, like working next door to the doughnut shop.

Brown trout world record.jpg

[Ray Kunz]

They say this may be a contender for a World Record. How can this be? I recall from many years back that the record Browm was something like 57 pounds and caught in Sxotland.

[EdD]

There's a rumor going arounf that he actually caught it in the Black Hills of South Dakota but when Miss Betty sent him a shiny red apple, he got the hint and said he caught it in New Zealand. That's why it was refrigerated when it was weighed. Don't know if it's true or not, but that's the rumor.


Ed

[TyroneFly]

Well Jeff and Mike, looks like you two have your work cut out for you.

[Silver Creek]

We need a bigger horse!

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[MikelC]

This is the pending world record brown trout up till now.

http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos...rown-trout-cau:

Could be this one from New Zealand is bigger.

[MikelC]

Ooooooooooooooooops, my mistake. That WAS the world record brown (41.45 lbs.), until the one in Milwaukee (41.5 lbs.). As I said, looks like the Kiwi brown is the new king (42 unofficially).

[Rocketfish]

McDonald's trout. Lots of combos.