Posted on 03/02/2020 8:43:16 AM PST by Red Badger
Thomas Knight with the enormous lake trout that broke New Hampshire's 62-year-old state record for the largest lake trout.
(CNN)When Thomas Knight set out on the ice to go fishing for lake trout, he was determined to haul in a big one. He came prepared with an 11-inch sucker because big bait attracts big fish, he said. But what he reeled in was bigger than anything he could have imagined. Knight, of Meredith, New Hampshire, caught a lake trout last Tuesday that weighed in at 37.65 pounds, easily breaking the state record that was more than 60 years old. The previous record was 28 pounds set in 1958. Usually, records are broken by a couple ounces, but Knight's fish shattered the record by more than nine pounds.
And before he even reeled it in, he knew it was going to be massive. "The line was so tight, it got so thin and the adrenaline was full blown," Knight told CNN. "You just do everything you can to not break the line and you try to tire the fish out." Thomas Knight, right, holds his 37.65 pound lake trout.
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I’m guessing Lake Winnipesaukee.
FWIW, Mittens has/had a Summer house there.
i give the fisherman a lot of credit for getting that monster in the boat...
The carcasses of record fish do need to be turned in to be made official. There are however, a ton of anecdotes (with photos) here in FL where captains have released potential record fishes to help maintain the fishery.
“i give the fisherman a lot of credit for getting that monster in the boat...”
Perhaps you should read the first line of the article.
“.....and the fish was. ...that. .....big...!”
You gotta believe me. ...
Looks more like salmon.
Yeah, doesn't say.
The picture shows the shoreline pretty close. Might be a smaller lake.
They're keeping it on the lowdown, where ever it was caught.
hahahahaha
read the arti... hehehe i’m a freeper. we don’t read no stinkin articles.
thanks
[[That’s the ugliest trout I have ever seen.]]
Well at least it’s mother didn’t think so
[[Question: Are Trout good to eat when they get that large?]]
Yes- it’s a soft flaky flesh no mtter the size really- the only time they aren’t good to eat is when they are spawning- the flesh becomes very mushy- (well at least with salmon- when they undergo that weird change)
[[Or are you better off just having it stuffed and mounted for wall art?]]
A fish that size I’d definitely have it on wall- but i think you can get the meat from it too- they take the flesh out- and stuff it with foam i believe-
[[I’m guessing Lake Winnipesaukee.]]
What about Bob, was he there?
We used to call them Lunkers. That is a beauty.
It’s ice fishing. Does LW freeze over? Or perhaps the photo op was not where the fish was caught???
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“Perhaps you should read the first line of the article.”
It says he was ice fishing, so he probably was trolling from a snowmobile.
You should have seen the one that got away.
LOL!.....................
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