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Apparently caught in BC. E-mail thread says its a rainbow trout?!
I've caught Rainbows but c'mon....this big?????

I dont think a rainbow would be that big !

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/fish ... id=2901070

check this out !

It is a Grouper.


Ab

Giant Grouper

[url]http://www.jostimages.com/galerie/underwater/giant-grouper.html[/url]

got one of those at the rumble couldnt enter it

Thanks guys. I knew it wasn't a rainbow or any trout for that matter. Someone at work sent it to me. Here is the original text of the e-mail.



Can You BELIEVE this??????

Bruce Kruk lands 359-lb Rainbow April 26th, 2008 Trail B.C.

--Bruce Kruk, who blindfolds his friends to keep his favorite fishing
spot secret has come up with a record-beating fish

-- a rainbow trout weighing 359.1 pounds.The giant hauled in by Bruce Kruk
of Trail BC is 12 ounces above the previous

Columbia River record, a BC biologist confirmed

It's been cut down to fillets. The first fillet weighed 53 pounds, Bruce
said. He caught it near a

Chemical outflow on the Columbia River. He won't give a more specific
description.



'I put myself in a harness and just had to lay back and fight,' Bruce
said. 'It was about a

15 or 20 minute fight.' Bruce cleaned the fish late Monday afternoon.
'We'll split it up,' he said.

'I'll make some phone calls and try to get rid of it fresh. The rest,
we'll vacuum pack it and cook it later.' Bruce says he believes the fish
is about 33 years old. He plans

To send an inner-ear bone called the otolith to a university in Victoria
where researchers can help determine the

Age of the fish. He hopes to get the results in about four weeks.

The world record, caught in BC in 1985, is 436 pounds, 12 ounces.

In BC they also have tours where you can fly fish with BIGFOOT...for rainbow's of course!!!

It's a sunfish!

@ Bobber

I like the part where they say it was caught near a chemical outflow!

hehehe don't knock it...I know someone that fishes the outflow at the NUCLEAR station in Pickering....awesome fishing apparently. they like the warm water...

and its easy to 'sight fish' when they glow in the dark

sumthin just don look right?

the scale of the shot looks real screwy. the front of the boat looks midsize by the width of the gunwales and hatchs but dude looks like an elf. If he stood up he couldn't barely see over the freeboard. And how in the h*** would you get that thing over the transom past the helm and up to the bow? I assume that a fish that big would have to landed at the stern.

Mr. T. wrote:It's a sunfish!

@ Bobber

Ocean Sunfish can get that big or bigger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_sunfish

Hard to tell since the pics are thumbnails when I view them, but it looks like the pics and story are a hoax to me. Those long fish look like King Mackeral or Wahoos and the "smaller fish" look to be Snapper or smaller Grouper. Maybe a n Amberjack or two mixed. I'm no expert, but I don't believe those fish are common to the northwest coast. Those are warm water Caribbean fish me thinks . Most definitely not a Rainbow!

ratsotail

[D4], that was a huge trout man!! I've actually come across that on youtube in the past.


Go onto youtube.com, and in the search bar up at the top, search fishinggeeks. Then, you'll find a video of all of their world record fish. They have about a thousand giant pike. Anyway, in this video, they show you him catching the trout. It is AMAZING!!!

check it out!



tight lines



the torpedo

ratsotail wrote:Hard to tell since the pics are thumbnails when I view them, but it looks like the pics and story are a hoax to me. Those long fish look like King Mackeral or Wahoos and the "smaller fish" look to be Snapper or smaller Grouper. Maybe a n Amberjack or two mixed. I'm no expert, but I don't believe those fish are common to the northwest coast. Those are warm water Caribbean fish me thinks . Most definitely not a Rainbow!

ratsotail

Have to agree with you Ratsotail...Even with El Nino these fish are not in BC waters.