World Record Brooke Trout (Pics)

[waljustia]

Brookies are the prettiest trout (IMHO). and they still look pretty when they are 17lbs 12 oz []. I don't have any other info on this.. [url "http://www.kississinglake.ca/"]other than this website verifying it[/url]

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[BigBassaholic]

Wow, nice looking fish
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[Theekillerbee]

Silly cannucks have all the luck! That is a gorgeous fish.
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[riverdog]

You mean prettiest char - that isn't a trout. Nice fish. Who's up for a trip to Labrador for Brookies and Atlantic Salmon?
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[WaveWolf]

[#500000]Brook......Shmook....Char......Shmar.[/#500000]
[#500000]That is a hell-uv-a-nice fish........See this article and if it doesn't confuse you, You Need Help!......WW.[/#500000]
[#500000]http://www.fish.state.pa.us/images/pages/qa/fish/char_brook.htm
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[HookJaw_Brimhall]

A brook trout IS a char smart guy []
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[HookJaw_Brimhall]

Man! that's a huge Brook [shocked]
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[prvrt]

Nice fish. Interesting the picture says one person caught it, then you looked at the website and it says another person caught it. Seems a little fishing, especially on April 1st.
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[fsh4fun05]

That ought to bring in some business! Biggest brook char I've ever seen [angelic][blush][angelic]
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[christopher30]

I'm surprised this hasn't circulated in a chain mail with somebody saying they caught it on the utah side of flaming gorge, like the world record rainbow from canada. There was some controversy on this fish about it being a splake, if it is then it's still a big good looking splake but i like the brook story better.
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[RyanCreek]

Too bad this was posted on April 1st, but fool's day aside, this is indeed a real fish and not a new story.

The info is very wrong on the posted pic. It was not caught by one "Tom Turnbull", it was caught in Manitoba's Barbe Lake by Tim Matheson in Oct. 2006. Tim owns and operates a lodge up there. The measurements put it at around 15 to 17 pounds.

The previous world record for a brook trout of 14.5 lbs came from the Nipigon river in Manitoba in the year 1915 -1916. It's true that a large fish was caught in Argentina from a stocked population some years ago that was thought to be a world record, but that turned out to possibly be a splake. The fish we're looking at here is a different story.

This is officially the Manitoba record now, but not an official world record because it was released.



Here are some sites to read more about it...
[url "http://www.brooktrout.ca/world-record-brook-trout.htm"]http://www.brooktrout.ca/...cord-brook-trout.htm[/url]

[url "http://www.brooktrout.ca/manitoba-record-brook-trout.htm"]http://www.brooktrout.ca/...cord-brook-trout.htm[/url]

[url "http://www.sbwire.com/news/view/9911"]http://www.sbwire.com/news/view/9911[/url]

[url "http://www.anglingmasters.com/...too=2009&eve=7&id=84"]http://www.anglingmasters.com/...too=2009&eve=7&id=84[/url]

Well, looking around it seems that there are people now saying that this fish is a splake too, but they had this same argument on the big brookies and the world record caught by Dr. Cook in the early 1900's, and they were later proven genetically to be pure brook trout. To me, it looks like a collossal brook trout. The coloring and patterns look exactly like what one would expect on a spawning brook trout.

Here's a nice dandy Splake for comparison

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[lurtch]

wow..brookies are not only the pretiest trout they are also the best eating trout....i can already taste that brook trout and moral dinner come opener,..
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[fishjon]

That looks just like the ones I always catch in the Uintas. Well except that it is about 17 pounds bigger.
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[BrookTroutKid]

Awesome fish! Biggest brook I have ever caught was only 17.5 inches I cant imagine catching that beast!
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[waljustia]

Thanks for the added research.. I was too lazy to do my own. I Just saw the pic and pulled it from somewhere on the web to post up here on BFT Because I knew it hadn't made the rounds here. I also thought "Man, if I post this today, everyone is going to think it's a joke".. Then, I reminded myself that I have a memory of about 1 day.. If I waited till 4/2.. it would never make it on the forum.
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[RyanCreek]

[quote fishjon]That looks just like the ones I always catch in the Uintas. Well except that it is about 17 pounds bigger.
Fishjon[/quote]

[laugh][shocked] That was a funny way to chime in there! I'm in the same boat as you buddy. Haven't had a brookie break 16" yet.
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[RyanCreek]

Way to think ahead man!
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[bbkyle35]

This isn't even recent. Just like the one of the canadian rainbow, someone dug up pic a couple years old and started them again. what a waste of time
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