Trophy Catch-22: Angler's Record-Breaking Trout Can't Be a Record

Field and Stream ^ | 01/20/15 | Ben Romans

[Slambat]

That’s a trick. That fish really isn’t that big. Proportion
it to her hands and they would be bigger than her head.

Or she has really big hands. Still a pretty lady though.

[Uncle Miltie]

Not with that body-shape.

I’ve caught hundreds of both. That’s a localized rainbow.

I’ve caught a 20 pound steelie. They are much more bullet-shaped. Always. Never that fat in the center.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

That bow must have developed a taste for ducks...

[Uncle Miltie]

I’ll bet money that critter lived directly below a hydro dam, and ate up the chopped fish (probably out-migrating steelhead and salmon smolt) that came through the turbines.

Extreme growth in a rainbow that causes a fat center like that is usually associated with extreme food supply.

[Daffynition]

[Hot Tabasco]

and ate up the chopped fish

Yea, that was one of the explanations given in the F&S article that was posted........

[DPMD]

Steelhead...and she’s holding a fish.

[Daffynition]

[al baby]

Now she cam make me a fish samich

[Vendome]

People will carp about anything...

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Talk about chopped fish...

[Daffynition]

COLD *chopped fish*

[panaxanax]

You are correct on all points.

That is NOT a Steelhead.

[Osage Orange]

GREAT PIC!!

[FlyFisher]

THAT is a nice fish. Article never mentions what caught that critters attention. I’m bettin’ that dude was a bait dunker. Chopped fish?