Record Idaho trout was hybrid

The record-breaking trout Mark Adams caught on July 25 in American Falls Reservoir turns out to be a rainbow-cutthroat hybrid.

LINK (Via:The Spokesman Review)

Initially Adams thought he was into a carp

Mark Adams, a 41-year-old Union Pacific locomotive engineer, caught a 34.74-pound rainbow trout out of American Falls Reservoir on the Snake River last Monday morning. The fish is 14 pounds heavier than the Idaho state record and would be the largest ever caught in the US. The largest U.S. rainbow trout on record is a 33-pound, 1.6-ounce specimen caught below Lake Koocanusa in Montana’s Kootenai River in 1997.

Laid out on the tailgate.

An initial investigation suggests the fish is a triploid but even if it is determined to be a sterile rainbow, it still qualifies for the record book. 

LINK (Via: Northwest Sportsman Mag)

Government Shutdown Prevents Potential Record Fish

Well sort of....

John Gergen landed a monster musky on Lake Sallie in Minnesota that came in at 57.5 inches and 54+ pounds on the family scale -- a weight that would break the state record.

Only problem for John was that due to Minnesota's government shutdown, that is also threatening to cut off the states beer supply, he could not find an open DNR office to direct him to a certified scale.So instead of doing a Google search, which would have told him that the local meat market or bait shop would have a state certified scale, he gave up on getting the fish officially weighed.

LINK (Via: The Twin Cities Pioneer Press)

Call me Ishmael

Paul Parise with a rare 51-inch albino musky.

LINK (Via: JS online)

Boing

Via: Adventures in Fonda Fishing

Blazing Beast

You'll have to go to Way Upstream if you want anymore details. In addition to the 411 on this fish, there is a link to Paul Vecsei's exceptional Flickr Photostream that you'll definitely want to check out.....trust me.

LINK (Via: Way Upstream)