Potential world record brown caught in USA - 41lb 8oz

Bloody hell.what a monster trout.:eek: Jim

I bet that wasn't on a 3lb tippet!

Well atleast it went back safely :whistle:

Guess it is not going to grow any bigger. Surely a photo and return would do for the ego. IN MY OPINION records should be banned. John

Very impressive fish. As far as I'm concerned, if it was eaten, fair enough. Stuffed and on the wall, not so sure. Thrown away, no. Regardless of what I think, it's really none of my business. In the end, provided no rules or laws were broken in its capture it's up to the angler to decide its fate. It's a timeless argument and one that will never ever be concluded one way or the other. Even taking a photo and releasing is frowned upon by some anglers. Eventually this road will lead to the mere action of hooking it in the first place being called into question.....and then we all stop fishing.

holy...what a beast. its nearly the size of his mate :P

what a fish :eek:

Big trout:eek:but it can be bigger:whistle:

Salmon-A-Rama Sportfishing Tournament Nice:(

Salmon-A-Rama Sportfishing Tournament Nice:( That's (in my view) one of the major faults of Tournaments is everyone's fishing for the 'big fish' and you've (with little exception, fresh water Bass as an example) have to kill it to bring it to the weigh in place. Fish like the one above should be left in the 'Gene Pool.' fae

I find this totally hysterical and depressing and this is why! First of all that SOB out grew the gene pool years ago! :joking: Seriously now, this fish is an exotic, alien, hatchery fish. :( I don't care what they do with it.:mad: Why we would consider an exotic, alien, hatchery fish for world record recognition I don't understand but that is how it appears to be headed! :confused: I just don't appreciate these competitions. As time progresses I think it is a mistake to allow exotic, alien fish to be used to mitigate the loss of native fish do to human abuse of native habitat as has occurred on our Great Lakes. I would like to see habitat restoration and a return of native species.:) Lake Michigan should have LL Atlantic salmon, coaster brook trout, Lake trout and grayling and that is it. Not browns, steelhead, Coho, and King salmon as is now the case. Heck there are very few coaster brook trout left and they must compete with exotics…..! Why? So people can have tournaments? :( Bobby

Interesting thoughts Bobby, but I thought that all those 'exotic fish' were introduced to cure a massive Alwyn (sp?) problem in the Great Lakes. (Someone chime in and correct the name of that scrap fish.) fae

You are correct and the name is alewives. They don't belong in the lakes either!:mad: It is just one thing after the other! I enjoy catching browns and rainbows and hold them in high regard as game fish but of late I have returned to fishing our native brook trout and in so doing I fish a lot of small streams. It is sad to see how some streams have been abused. Other streams are a surprise and I have found excellent brook trout streams I had never fished in the 40 years I have lived in Vermont. I should have weaned myself off of the exotics earlier in life and worked to restore the brook trout. Bobby