New record state fish, New Hampshire.

[OhioFisherman]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/01/us/lake-trout-record-trnd/index.html

It might be my eyes? but that mount will need a serious paint job?

[Fisherman]

Yup, blew the old record right off the chart.  Those colours will buff right out, lol.

[DRIFTER_016]

I'm still trying to get a 40 pounder through the ice. 

 

[captpierre]

4 hours ago, DRIFTER_016 said:

I'm still trying to get a 40 pounder through the ice. 

 

That’s just a minnow in your neck of the woods.  😎

[misfish]

5 hours ago, DRIFTER_016 said:

I'm still trying to get a 40 pounder through the ice. 

 

A 10 inch hole, tie 40 pounder to a string and drop in. 😁

[Moosebunk]

Big Diamond Lake is a stocked lake trout fishery.  The lake is just over a mile long and about 3/4s of a mile wide.  Methinks this fella was lucky enough to catch a tank fed and raised brood stock fish that was released to live out some final days.  Because really, there's little chance a lake that size, that receives all season angler pressure, could grow a 37 pounder over the past what... 30, 40, 50, 100 years.

Records today are being shattered by fish tank fish... Kinda silly.  But for this guy, it'd be hard to imagine days, years maybe a lifetime of catching 1-2 pound stockers, the odd 5 pounder then all of a sudden hook a 30+ .  What a rush. lol

[Chuck Enwinde]

2 hours ago, Moosebunk said:

Big Diamond Lake is a stocked lake trout fishery.  The lake is just over a mile long and about 3/4s of a mile wide.  Methinks this fella was lucky enough to catch a tank fed and raised brood stock fish that was released to live out some final days.  Because really, there's little chance a lake that size, that receives all season angler pressure, could grow a 37 pounder over the past what... 30, 40, 50, 100 years.

Records today are being shattered by fish tank fish... Kinda silly.  But for this guy, it'd be hard to imagine days, years maybe a lifetime of catching 1-2 pound stockers, the odd 5 pounder then all of a sudden hook a 30+ .  What a rush. lol

Probably right.  I fished a tiny little lake that was supposed to be stocked with splake .  A few locals walked by dragging 15lbs+ lakers.  It blew my mind until one of them told me the hatchery gets rid of it's over sized brood stock there.  They also weren't the prettiest specimens.

[dave524]

Reminds me of the controversy of a record Rainbow, an escaped triploid in Lake Diefenbacher , years ago. Some stuff needs to be disqualified.

 

 

edit: https://www.outdoorcanada.ca/lake-diefenbaker/

 

Edited March 3, 2020 by dave524