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Topic subjectRE: FrankenTrout
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5864, RE: FrankenTrout
Posted by woodsac, Thu Mar-03-05 09:33 AM
Actually Chris, there's been bigger fish caught since that one. California actually developed a seperate record class for stocked trout due to the size of the fish coming out of there.

The fish pictured is from Santa Ana River Lakes. They also have some genetically cross bred trout called 'Lightning Trout' and 'Thunder Trout'. Not my cup of tea :P

You can see pics of the fish and I think the record fish too here:

http://www.fishingwebcam.com/index.html

EDIT....
I stand corrected :+ 26.08 is the current record. I remember all the contraversy over the fish pictured. I think it wound up that the guy said to hell with it. Never pursued the record because of all the rumors and trouble.

What gets me is how sickly some of these fish look ;( It's like someone just stuffed em full of something and put em in the water. They're so fat and unproportional to their bodies, that they don't even look like they could swim. Doesn't even seem like they could survive that long without someone hand feeding them?