However,below is a 29" trout that I caught and measured, and it looks it looks a lot smaller to me.
40" Trout
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Re: 40" Trout
I wish I could tell the naysayers that this is truly a 40" fish, but I have no idea since I didn't take the picture, and its third had information.
However,below is a 29" trout that I caught and measured, and it looks it looks a lot smaller to me.
However,below is a 29" trout that I caught and measured, and it looks it looks a lot smaller to me.
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big bend gyrene
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Re: 40" Trout
Put me in the skeptic list... and not because it doesn't appear 40" or that I suspect it's seen some photoshop work (thought it may well have)... I'm skeptical because it very likely would be a Florida record and it's kind of hard to believe a new record wouldn't be getting more detailed press. Here's info on the currently listed record, and you'll note it falls in just under 40".
http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/ga ... t?photo=20
http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/ga ... t?photo=20
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Re: 40" Trout
Probably due to this if in fact a 40" fish---big bend gyrene wrote: I'm skeptical because it very likely would be a Florida record and it's kind of hard to believe a new record wouldn't be getting more detailed press. Here's info on the currently listed record
big bend gyrene wrote:Found floating in Mosquito Lagoon.
Also could this photo be from TX? There are several articles about giant fish found floating after freezes - also saw this---
"There are reports and pictures to verify a 48-inch, 25-pound trout found floating during fish-killing freezes in the 1960s. "
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big bend gyrene
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Sorry, Redfin, just had my first cup of java and actually woke up! 
Still skeptical it's a FL fish 
Still skeptical it's a FL fish "The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank GOD for the United States Marine Corps." Eleanor Roosevelt, 1945
Re: 40" Trout
ditto-big bend gyrene wrote: Still skeptical it's a FL fish
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Re: 40" Trout
I had a buddy that caught a 36 inch trout in Pensacola. I know for a fact that it was legit, and he has pictures. I'll try to get him to post them. As for the 40 incher being the world or state record, didn't he say he found it floating dead? Wouldn't that automatically disqaulify it? The photo doesn't look tampered to me. I have no reason to disbelieve.
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Re: 40" Trout
big bend gyrene wrote:Put me in the skeptic list... and not because it doesn't appear 40" or that I suspect it's seen some photoshop work (thought it may well have)... I'm skeptical because it very likely would be a Florida record and it's kind of hard to believe a new record wouldn't be getting more detailed press.
IGFA does not have a world record category for fish found dead and floating so maybe thats why theres not much said about it.
World Record 17 lb trout was caught in FLA. Not TX. And on a Super Spook. Nice!