The catcher of the giant brown trout is Robbie Dockter from Conrad in the US state of Montana. His fish weighed 32.42 lb (14.7 kilograms) and came from the Marias River. The fish the angler caught earlier this year has been a new state record since then, beating the old record holder from 1966 by about three pounds. The brown trout grabbed a spoon spoon on a string that was only two kilos. Robbie thought he had a trout around ten pounds on the hook, but then he saw in the light of the headlamp what was really on the hook. And then the mail went off …
The fisherman and daughter go fishing once a week
Robbie knows the river like the back of his hand and goes fishing with a daughter Sierra at least once a week, especially in the early evening hours. At first Robbie thought he was hooked. Then the fish shot back and forth in the river as if it weren’t even hanging on the hook. “I was afraid that it would jump or roll and so break the cord – but that did not happen,” he said in an interview with Field & Stream magazine in the spring of this year. With his ultra-light spinning rod he could only play the brown trout very carefully, and it paid off.
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After a quarter of an hour of drilling, Robbie was able to strand the fish. Daughter Sierra had never seen such a large fish and immediately suspected that it might have caught a record fish. The next day Robbie had the brown trout weighed and recognized as an “All State Record” of Montana. “The drill of this fish was a unique experience, but I would have indulged my daughter’s fish even more,” he said.
Jason Rhoten, ranger for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MFWP), comments on the catch: “The Marias River is home to some very beautiful brown trout, but it is an absolute exception that it would produce such a record fish. Such a fish is rarely caught. In addition, Robbie was very lucky that he was able to land the giant with his light device. “
Robbie had a replica of the new state record made, leaving the fish to the MFWP for analysis.
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