Record brown trout in Wisconsin | StarTribune.com

That’s one monster brown trout.

Wisconsin officials have verified that a 41-pound, 8-ounce brown trout caught by Roger Hellen of Franksville, Wis., caught in Lake Michigan on July 16 is now a Wisconsin state record fish. And it may be a world record, too.

It smashed the old record by almost 5 pounds. The previous record was 36 pounds 8.9 ounces and 40.5 inches for a fish caught August 23, 2004, in Lake Michigan near Kewaunee.

Hellen’s is the ninth state record set this year, and the first for a fish caught by hook and line.

He caught the fish north of Racine while competing in a fishing tournament. The fish measured 40.6 inches long.

The fish is an ounce heavier than the 41-pound 7-ounce world record brown trout caught last year in the Big Manistee River in Michigan.

“It was very exciting – it was certainly the biggest trout or salmon I’ve ever seen,” says Cheryl Peterson, DNR fisheries technician who weighted, measured and processed the fish at the tournament. “We knew as soon as it was on the scale it was going to be a new state record.”  Click Link Below For Full Story!

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