"You're gonna need a bigger boat"

A fisherman on the Manistee River here in Michigan just landed what's believed to be a world record brown trout. It weighed 41 lbs., 7.5 oz., smashing the state record by nearly 5 lbs., and the world record by about 4 oz. That's a fish!

That fish could probably eat my cat.

Unbelievable!!

Think of all the "Long John Silvers" fried fish that could make!!! Yummm!

that is awesome! oh, this reminds me of The Old Man And The Sea from my 9th grade english class. thanks for sharing!

"The old man was dreaming about the lions." Neat book!

I've been looking around, but haven't been able to find anything about the line. Probably pretty heavy test, though, because they were fishing for salmon.

Here's a video about it. The guy in the pic above isn't the one who caught the fish. He's the fishing guide who took Tom Healy, who landed it, down the river. Also, the scale in the video shows 41.45 lbs., but it was actually a few ounces heavier than that, after they recalibrated the scale.

Man Catches 41-lb. Trout

That is some fish. He must have put up one heck of a fight.

I love your idea Rhonda, those fries look good.

Kinda makes you sad though, doesn't it? That fish has swam around for so long getting to that size and now that's it. I'd almost want to throw it back in the water & free it again...then I start thinking about all the Long John Silvers I can eat!

We could have used a fish about that size to feed all of us at our recent picnic.

Truly, that is amazing. I can't imagine the excitement he must have felt reeling him in!!

Misti wrote:

Kinda makes you sad though, doesn't it? That fish has swam around for so long getting to that size and now that's it. I'd almost want to throw it back in the water & free it again...then I start thinking about all the Long John Silvers I can eat!

I can't help but think of "Walter" in the movie "On Golden Pond"...anyone remember that? Norman and Bill go out on the water in search of "Walter" (who is a gigantic catfish as I recall) and actually catch it, but they decide to let him go.

Love that video and article Rob---so neat that it happened to that man!

Wow, that's one big fish!!