Angler lands an enormous silver trout weighing 34lbs 12ozs

An angler caught an enormous silver trout weighing 34lbs 12ozs within 15 minutes and it broke two nets. It was an almighty tussle to land this enormous trout which has set a new British record. This catch beat the earlier British record for a rainbow trout of 33lbs 4ozs that has been held for more than a decade since 2003.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 25 October 2016.

The angler hooked the catch of a lifetime after it escaped from a fish farm and had fed for five years on an endless supply of prey to reach an enormous size. The fisherman was hoping to land a catch of a 10lbs brown trout using a maggot as bait but, what he ended up with was a monster from the deep weighing 34lbs 12ozs.
The fisherman hailed from Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, and he caught the silver giant during a trip to Loch Earn, Perthshire, which is stocked with tens of thousands of brown trout. Most probably the rainbow specimen had managed to escape from a trout farm on the loch and has feasted on an unlimited supply of small fish like minnow and stickleback.
Experts has pegged its age as around five years based on a test of its scales. Obviously, it would have entered the loch at a young age to have put on so much weight in that time. It was 38ins long with a girth of over 26ins.


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