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Title: World Record Brown
Post by: Michael Buchan on 31/10/2009 at 23:22

Just came accross this fish new potential world record brown 41+lb.  Cracking looking fish.

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/58634057.html

just out of interest does anyone know the weight of the largest recorded Don trout taken?

Title: Re: World Record Brown
Post by: Jim Eddie on 01/11/2009 at 19:26

That is an awesome looking troot , very well proportioned for such a big fish.

 :z18

Jim

Title: Re: World Record Brown
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 01/11/2009 at 19:38

Did you see the comments on that page..."bet it will smoke up nice".  :z8 I guess thats just the way it goes.

Does anyone think the UK could do a fish that size?

Title: Re: World Record Brown
Post by: Jim Eddie on 01/11/2009 at 19:43

Not sure Rob , is the UK record from Loch Awe around the 30lb mark ?

Also yes I think its a shame these fish have to die to claim a record, saying that I think that large Browns are not in short supply in Lale Michigan.

 :z18

Jim

Title: Re: World Record Brown
Post by: Ben Dixon on 01/11/2009 at 20:17

Not sure, I think the record is 32lb from Awe, wouldn't be at all surpised if that record gets broken, there must be bigger trout out there somewhere.  I know there are doubles in the Don, I know of one caught several years back by a salmon angler ealry season on the middle river, not sure how big they would / could get on the Don, we still know very little about Don trout.

Cheers

Ben

Title: Re: World Record Brown
Post by: Jay Scott on 01/11/2009 at 20:33

32lbs is a hell of a fish to beat, which i dont think will be acheived in wild fish stocks anyway. I think our view as anglers has to change before this can happen. Not talking fishermen from this forum but more around the West coast and Southern belt to which catching a large fish results in it being chapped.


Jay

Title: Re: World Record Brown
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 01/11/2009 at 20:46

31lb 12oz to be exact ;) The chap that caught the fish from the Ferox 85 Group has lost bigger fish when hooks have been crushed by the fish!!

(http://www.fishing-worldrecords.com/fish-pix/ferox%20trout%20record.jpg)

Would be nice to think we could take the world record from the Yanks ;)

Title: Re: World Record Brown
Post by: Richard Tong on 02/11/2009 at 14:47

I recall reading an old T & S Monthly Report from the 1970s which mentioned that the record form the Don at that time was 13lb but there was no more info other than that

Richard