That's what happened to Steve Jones, a 72-year-old lifelong angler who was dipping his line in Shaver Lake in California on May 16 when he pulled in the lake-record brown trout.

The 40-pound, 6-ounce brown trout Bill Babler caught Wednesday out of Lake Taneycomo has been certified as a new Missouri record. It's an astounding catch, one that's less than two pounds short of ...

“New state record alert!” South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks exclaimed via social media. “Ty Smith broke a record in the ...

The lake-record brown trout is 15 pounds, 14 ounces. If there ever was a time when a bigger one might be caught, that time is now. Info: Blue Ribbon Fishing Charters, (530) 544-6552 ...

Duffy landed a brown trout on 6 pound line that tipped the scale at 31 pounds, 8 ounces. Word spread quickly in the angling ...

With that weight, Jones’ fish easily tops Shaver’s unofficial lake record: an 18-pound brown trout caught there in the 1980s. (California doesn’t maintain official lake records.) The state record ...

Shelby Holder of Kemmerer set the new record on June 6 with a 14-pound, 15.2-ounce fish caught in the Hams Fork River near ...

Dec. 23—McAlester resident Marty Donaldson was fishing along the bank of Lake Carlton at Wilburton's Robbers Cave State Park on Dec. 15 when he knew he hooked something big. The avid fisherman ...

Located 16 miles north of Kemmerer, Lake Viva Naughton is one of several reservoirs that WGFD stocks with tiger trout, a sterile hybrid species that’s a cross between a female brown trout and a male ...

For those wondering, the South Dakota hook-and-line record for brown trout stands at 24 pounds, 8 ounces, for a fish caught (and kept) at Canyon Lake in 1990. The world record is listed as a 44 ...

South Dakota last week recognized a new state bowfishing record for brown trout, stirring anger on social media. “New state record alert!” South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks exclaimed via ...