40 pound brown trout, and 50 pound rainbow trout may be recent news, but the size of those fish pale in comparison to this old record Lake Trout, from 1961. It was taken using a gill net in 1961 and weighed 102 pounds.
The largest lake trout ever taken on the rod and reel weighed 72 pounds, caught on Great Bear Lake Canada in 1991 by Lloyd Bull. That lake trout must have been a great bear of a Lake Trout.
Lake trout, unlike Brown Trout and Rainbow Trout are technically Char, like their brothers the Brook Trout, Arctic Char, and Dolly Varden Char.
Saw a pic,a long time ago, of that 102 laker in formaldehyde which I thought was in a museum in Toronto but now can't find a pic anywhere. Does anyone else know what I'm referring to? Or where the fish went?
ReplyDeleteRick - I dont believe that is correct. I remember as a kid going to the museum in Algonquin Park and seeing the stuffed 102 lb Lake Trout on the wall (it had been caught in 1961 in a net). Every year I would ask to go back to the museum to see the giant fish and my understanding is that it finally disintegrated due to poor taxidermy. Ken Kerr
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