'It can leave a nasty wound that takes six or seven years to stop weeping'

The four hour stalemate was only broken when the fish became tired and Mr Wade was finally able to lift it towards the surface.

Mr. Wade said: 'If you get the barb through an artery or body cavity it can be fatal. It normally attacks feet and ankles from where people tread on them by accident.'

LINK (Via: The Mail Online)

Another Day, Another 30 plus Inch Brown

31 inches to be exact.

This one electroshocked on the Snake near Osgood by Idaho Fish and Game.

LINK (Via: The Missoulian)

Matt Heron Reels in a Gigantic Brown Trout

Matt Heron is one fishy bastard.

Biggest freshwater fish ever caught by a British woman

A woman who took up fishing to see more of her angling-mad boyfriend has become a record holder after catching a 215lb catfish.

LINK (Mail On Line)

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)