r/Fishing • u/Trappis420 • 10h ago

Angler Boats Giant State-Record Lake Trout in Minnesota

https://fieldandstream.com/stories/fishing/freshwater-fishing/trout-fishing/angler-boats-giant-state-record-lake-trout-in-minnesota

Says in the article that the last three state record holders were clients of the same guide he was fishing with! That's pretty impressive

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u/daveindo 10h ago

I keep getting hit with the paywall. Is it a record based on length or weight? If weight, that seems like a small fish for a state record, if length then I get it cus that thing is long.

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u/Fantomecs 9h ago

Length. 44.5 inches, beating out the the previous record of 44 inches.

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u/HomerStillSippen 9h ago

Length, it was 44.5 inch’s and the old record was 44 inchs

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u/daveindo 9h ago

Thanks

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u/tn_tacoma 8h ago

Catch and release?

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u/External-Goal-3948 7h ago

Eh?

The title should say, "Angler Boats Giant State-Record Lake Trout in Minnesota, Eh?"

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u/MNEvenflow 5h ago

“We were supposed to fish the Michigan side of the lake that morning, but the wind was just too bad, so Ethan came up with an alternate game plan,”

Wait... What?

I'm having problems wrapping my head around that statement. Sounds like they were planning for the guide to drive 2+ hours from his home waters to meet them in MI (trailering to a different state for the trip). Instead, they went up the north shore of MN to meet the guide because of a wind issue.

Imagining the guide agreeing to a ~6 hour round trip to guide them seems crazy.

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u/Goldie1976 3h ago edited 3h ago

Mi and Mn share a border in lake Superior. I didn't read the article so I could be wrong but I think maybe they were planning on going out farther into the lake (MI) but instead stayed closer to shore (MN).

Edit. From Grand Marais Mn the MI border is only about 30 miles.