New World Record Brown Trout caught in Michigan, USA.
Posted on September 13th, 2009I love to fish for migratory brown trout, especially in Upper NY State. When my friend Pat Pagano sent me a link on a potential new world record brown trout that was caught in Michigan, it caught my attention and I had to check-it out. Indeed the fish is a bonafide catch. Here is the news release from the Chicago Tribune.
MANISTEE, Mich. – An angler has landed the heaviest brown trout on record in Michigan.
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The Ludington Daily News has learned that what appears to be a new world record brown trout was caught in the Manistee River this morning. Grand Rapids area resident Tom Healy caught the 41-pound, 7.25 ounce monster on a crankbait while fishing with Tim Roller’s charter service. Michigan DNR fisheries biologists Mark Tonello and Todd Kalish weighed the fish after leveling the certified scales and determined the weight. It is the new record hold for Michigan. Upon the second weighing with the scales leveled, the weight was determined to be 1 pound, .75 ounces heavier than originally determined. The fish was 43.75 inches long.
The fish is 1 pound, 3.25 ounces heavier than the reigning world record German brown trout, a 40-pound, 4-ounce fish caught in Arkansas in 1992 by Howard “Rip†Collins who used an ultralight rod and 4-pound test line to catch that fish. Healy will have to apply for certification to be declared the world record holder.
The state record German brown trout until today weighed 36.81 pounds and was caught in Lake Michigan in Benzie County in 2007. The next three places in the state record books were held by Lake Michigan browns caught in Manistee.
Healy would need certification from the International Game Fish Association or the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame as the new record holder.
