Michigan Manistee Record Brown Trout

[MarkHansen]

I like to see and read about big fish. I remember reading about this on internet and viewing a piece on CNN when it happened. The trout has been certified as a new state record and is pending certification as the new all-tackle world record.

41lbs 7oz brown trout while fishing for salmon.

On my plane ride home this week, I read about it again in Field & Stream.

Here's the link:
http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos...rown-trout-cau

Here's the video from CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/liv...ord.trout.wwtv

Here's the outfitter's link:
http://www.ultimateoutfitters.com/todayontheriver.htm

Here are 2 pics:

[flyred06]

That is definately one ultimate fish. If I ever get blessed enough to catch something like that some one call my wife, cause God is fixing to take me home. Man that's what dreams are made of.

[gutshot]

Fish that big are caught on fly rods in TDF one of the fly fishing magazines discussed it recently.

[MarkHansen]

I did not spend that much time on the article, but I’m pretty sure it did not state that many details:

how/when (time of day) it was caught?
what type of rod and # test of the line?
lures/baits/flies?

It’s funny, when I look back on those pictures, I think: HOW MUCH and WHAT does a fish like that eat?

M-

[troutslayer3393]

Does anyone know if that fish was kept or somehow miraculously released....i am guessing 99% that it was kept to be put on the wall.

[gutshot]

Dead lots of pictures of it floating around being weighed by the game and fish guys.