Sunday 17 June 2007

Lot's of big fish this year.

 Here is something you may find interesting:

Brown trout sinks old record
Last Updated: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:00 AM AT
CBC News
A Cape Breton fisherman has officially reeled in a provincial record.
Charlie Lahey's fish is now listed as the largest brown trout ever caught in Nova Scotia.





 A provincial fisheries biologist confirmed the record, the Cape Breton Post reported Monday.
The 8.3-kilogram fish, caught April 21 in the Mira River, beat the record of 3.58 kg set last year. That fish was caught in the Wallace River in Cumberland County.
It was 86.36 centimetres long and 71.12 centimetres thick. That's about 34 inches long and just under eighteen and a half pounds, if my math is not too rusty.

How about this one from Lake Diefenbaker in Saskatchewan?

Lana Haight, CanWest News Service Published: Friday, June 08, 2007
SASKATOON -- Adam Konrad has another fish story to tell.
43.6-pound rainbow trout
"It is an ugly one and it is fat. With a 34-inch girth, that's bigger than a human, almost," said the Saskatoon man who landed a 38-1/2-inch long rainbow
trout that will put him in the record books, again. On Tuesday between 6:30 and 7 p.m., Konrad snagged the 43.6-pound rainbow trout at Lake Diefenbaker, topping the previous world record set in 1970 when a boy landed a 42.3-pound rainbow trout in Alaska.

"I've already talked to the world-record co-ordinator (with the International Game Fish Association) and she's freaking out." On Tuesday, Konrad was casting from shore with his identical twin brother Sean and a friend. He says there's more to landing a record-breaking fish than being in the right place at the right time.

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