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Trophy Catch-22: Angler's Record-Breaking Trout Can't Be a Record
Field and Stream ^ | 01/20/15 | Ben Romans

Posted on 01/22/2015 11:54:14 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway

On January 8, Idaho angler Larry Warren caught and released a 28-pound rainbow trout from the Clearwater River near Orofino. It was a fish big enough to best the current state record—set in 2009—by 8 pounds, if it weren’t for a few "technical" circumstances governing the handling of wild fish and how the state evaluates records. Many news outlets are running headlines about the release of this record-sized fish, but few are explaining the regulations that mandated Warren's actions. In an exclusive interview with F&S, the Idaho Fish and Game Department’s Clearwater Region fishery manager, Joe DuPont, clarified the situation.


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1 posted on 01/22/2015 11:54:14 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

28 pounds!!??


2 posted on 01/22/2015 11:56:15 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: smokingfrog

Tecnically it may be an ocean run steelhead


3 posted on 01/22/2015 11:57:49 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

I don’t consider them Bows till they start showing color. Until then, Steelhead.


4 posted on 01/22/2015 12:00:08 PM PST by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

You expect anyone to believe that that fish just swam from the Pacific?


5 posted on 01/22/2015 12:02:14 PM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: smokingfrog

Good illustration what what happens once the government gets involved.


6 posted on 01/22/2015 12:04:28 PM PST by centurion316
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Gees...you can’t even weigh a fish anymore without breaking some bureaucratic regulation.


7 posted on 01/22/2015 12:04:37 PM PST by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
While DuPont believes Warren’s fish was indeed a trout, the fact that the angler released the fish before weighing it on a certified scale bars the fish from record consideration.

But, according to DuPont, Warren didn’t have a choice—the fish had an unclipped adipose fin, indicating that it was wild, and anglers must release all wild Clearwater rainbows and steelhead.

Moreover, Idaho maintains specific guidelines on the catch-and-release handling of wild fish. One of the stipulations is that anglers can’t hang wild fish from a scale.

...at least they didn't charge him for taking the picture.

8 posted on 01/22/2015 12:07:31 PM PST by TexasCajun
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9 posted on 01/22/2015 12:11:01 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: TexasCajun

Fish and game regs are as out of control as Obozo is.


10 posted on 01/22/2015 12:13:03 PM PST by exnavy (Got ammo, Godspeed.)
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Donate

11 posted on 01/22/2015 12:21:56 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: smokingfrog

You should see the Steelhead trout.


12 posted on 01/22/2015 12:23:36 PM PST by mylife
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

That is not a steelhead.


13 posted on 01/22/2015 12:24:06 PM PST by mylife
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To: smokingfrog
Steelhead


14 posted on 01/22/2015 12:26:53 PM PST by mylife
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We’re gonna need a bigger frying pan!


15 posted on 01/22/2015 12:36:58 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: mylife

Your wife has man hands........LOL!


16 posted on 01/22/2015 12:37:30 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I'm a man of no-color and proud of it.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

LOL!


17 posted on 01/22/2015 12:38:20 PM PST by mylife
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18 posted on 01/22/2015 12:39:05 PM PST by mylife
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outdoor ping


19 posted on 01/22/2015 12:41:01 PM PST by randita (Obama entrusted the transformation of the best healthcare system in the world to a scam artist.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

“Essentially, the mandatory-release regulation counteracts the record-book weight rule,” DuPont says. “That almost prevents any wild rainbows from the Clearwater from ever being considered a record. It’s a catch-22.”

Then the current record holders name should be stricken
from the record and it should be established that there
is no official record of the largest Rainbow Trout because
it is legally unobtainable.

Or the current record holder should be prosecuted.


20 posted on 01/22/2015 12:46:26 PM PST by Slambat
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