42# Brown Trout out of New Zealand

[Pike Hunter]

https://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/field-notes/2013/07/kiwi-angler’s-42-lb-brown-trout-official-world-record

 

Who knew that there are much bigger brown trouts out there! This is a real hog!

Edited February 10, 2018 by Pike Hunter

[Pike Hunter]

One don.t need to travel all the way to NZ to find monster browns. Michigan does hold huge browns! 41# brown out of Michigan. https://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/gallery/fishing/2010/07/wisconsin-angler-lands-potential-world-record-brown-lake-michigan#page-4

[PeltHunter]

I’m in New Zealand right now these are all mounts in the outdoor store. The rainbow is from a lake where they troll for them with down riggers. The last one is the only one I got a pic of that I caught in a small lake yesterday.


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[ogrob56]

Glad I didn’t hook him, probably would have pulled my little boat to Canada .

[Pike Hunter]

Pelthunter - that's a fantastic display of massive trouts. Which part of NZ are you travelling?  I will be heading down to NZ - Bay of Islands for the  Marlins and the Swordfish in the beginning of March.

[PeltHunter]

Pelthunter - that's a fantastic display of massive trouts. Which part of NZ are you travelling?  I will be heading down to NZ - Bay of Islands for the  Marlins and the Swordfish in the beginning of March.

Hey sorry I just saw this. I go down to Christchurch (middlish of the South Island) every year for work. This is the first time I’ve had some time off to try to fish. From what I found out talking to some guys that worked at this store trout fishing is very big their but they are experiencing a lot of baitfish issues similar to us and it’s causing size to go down. It was cool to see they use some similar tactics to us.


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