The other day I was reading the January 2007 issue of Fur-Fish-Game, a venerable old magazine that’s been published since 1925. It calls itself “The Magazine for Practical Outdoorsmen,” but is primarily a trappers’ magazine. In fact it contains a Fur Market Report, which lists the current skin prices (wild minks, for example, fetch $15 to $20). The News & Notes section of this issue contains pictures of a brook trout caught by Tim Matheson in Manitoba’s Barbe Lake. Rob Cann of the provincial Water Stewardship Fisheries Branch says, ”Based on the measurements of the fish and the pictures I’ve seen, I’d estimate Matheson’s trout to be between 15 and 17 pounds.”
Since the all-tackle world record brook trout, caught in July,1916 in the Nipigon River, Ontario, Canada, by W.J. Cook weighed 14 lbs. 8 oz.; Mr. Matheson is holding the new world record. Holding, not keeping. He …
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