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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Young said he landed a 35-inch, 18.75-pound brown at Shaver Lake on Jan. 11 in the 1980s while Stickler’s fish was caught on Jan. 14. “My brother kept excellent records of every trip, and we ...

The biggest brook trout ever caught. IGFA. Weight: 14 pounds 8 ounces Year: 1915 The longest-standing trout record of all was certified by Field & Stream more than a century ago, when Dr. J.W ...