39 pounds 2 ounces!

Outdoor Life:

For Australian angler Paul Rahman, fishing all night and casting through the cold is part of the game when hunting for trophy-sized brown trout in New Zealand. At least that’s how Rahman caught his new world-record brown on the South Island this April. The beast of a trout weighed 39 pounds 2 ounces, and it was recently accepted by the International Game Fish Association as the new line-class world record in the 8-pound category.

Rahman caught the record brown from the Ohau Canal in Twizel. It’s part of a unique system of hydropower canals fed by glacial lakes, and most of the canals have salmon farms along them. This combination of cold, oxygenated water and salmon feed drifting in from the farms produces some of the largest trout on the planet.

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Correction: Guide Tim Roller holding new world record Brown Trout

A potential world record 41 lb, 7 1/4 oz. (19.1 k.), 43.75″ (1.11 meter) Brown Trout (currently Salmo trutta, formerly Salmo fario) was caught on Wednesday in Michigan’s Manistee River.

Thomas Healy of Rockford, Michigan was fishing a crankbait (a plug with a lip causing it to dive when retrieved, “cranked,” i.e reeled in) using a spincasting rod and reel.

The previous record Brown Trout weighed 40 lb. 4 oz (18.26 k.) and was caught in 1992 on the Little Red River in Arkansas by Howard Collins.

Healy was being guided by Tim Roller of Ultimate Outfiteers.

The fish was weighed and measured by two Michigan state biologists.

Ludington Daily News

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

Mr. Healy holding the gigantic trout

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Thanks to commenter Amy of Riverside Charters for correcting the top photo ID.