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Adam Konrad of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan caught this Rainbow Trout in Lake Diefenbaker on June 5th , 2007. Most notable are the world record brown trout and state record rainbow trout catches that have occurred in Arkansas's lakes and streams. Arctic Char: Snail Lake / Fort Whyte Ponds 2010 / 1994 : 71.12 / 28.00: Arctic Grayling: Wolf Lake: 1991: 58.42/23.00: Black Crappie: South Cross Lake This fish is now the largest lake trout caught in all of New England. Weight: 41.45 pounds. We proudly support the International Game Fish Association : IGFA IGFA World Record Cutthroat Trout Mens 16 LB Line Class 24 LBS 0 OZ Caught on Marabou Jig "Monster Magnet" IGFA World Record Cutthroat Trout All-Tackle Length 85 cm (20 LBS 8 OZ) Caught on Ma The impressive trout weighed in at 43 lbs 6 ounces. Studies show that brookies in the North Fork can reach 19 inches and three pounds in only two years, while in their native ranges they seldom exceed one pound. © Copyright 2020 Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism. As mitigation for the dam's impact on the Little Red, the Greers Ferry National Fish Hatchery opened in 1965. Rainbows from the hatchery grew phenomenally well in the White and North Fork and soon the two streams were among the country's finest destinations for trophy trout. Arkansas tailwaters now contain a significant number of browns exceeding 30 pounds and fish in the five-to-10-pound range are common. A 38-inch brown trout caught by Eric Haataja in the Milwaukee harbor has been certified as a world record in the all tackle length division by the International Game Fish Association. The fish will have to be tested to see if it's a pure bred or a genetically enhanced trout before it receives official World Record status. With the completion of Norfork Dam on the North Fork of the White River in 1944 and Bull Shoals Dam on the White River in 1951, the groundwork was laid for major expansions of the state's trout fisheries. The fish measured out to an impressive 87 cm (34.25 in) and was released alive—qualifying Ledbetter for the All-Tackle Length world record. Trout Rivers: Little Red River (Greers Ferry Tailwater), White River (Bull Shoals Tailwater), White River (Beaver Tailwater), Spring River, North Fork River (Norfork Tailwater), Ouachita and Little Missouri rivers. Pictures were supplied to me by www.trophytroutguide.com, if (document.body.clientWidth <= 600) {
The world record for a brown trout (40 pounds, 4 ounces) was set in May 1992 on the Little Red River, 29 miles of which had become suitable trout habitat with the completion of the Greers Ferry Dam in the early 1960s. document.write('
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Search for the biggest fish in the International Game Fish Association's database of biggest fish for each species. Adam Konrad of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan caught this Rainbow Trout in Lake Diefenbaker on June 5th , 2007. Such is not the case, however, with brown trout. The International Game Fish Assn. An 83 pound Lake Trout was pulled out of Great Bear Lake, a fish that would’ve broken the existing world record by a whopping 11 pounds. Wednesday, September 9 / 2009. That is true in part because natural reproduction of rainbows in Arkansas streams accounts for less than one percent of the state's annual rainbow population. Coincidentally, that world record Lake Trout was also caught in Great Bear Lake, the same place the fish at the center of this story was caught. }, if (document.body.clientWidth <= 600) {
Catches of 5-to-7-pound rainbows were common and the state record rainbow trout (19 pounds, 1 ounce) was caught in 1981 by Jim Miller of Memphis on the White River.. Length: 43.75 inches. In 1983, the AG&FC made an initial release of cutthroat trout on the White and North Fork and the new species adapted well. The record inland rainbow fish was caught on Lake Natoma in 2005 with a weight of 27 pounds. The Spring River State Fish Hatchery enables the AG&FC to raise its own trout year-round and has increased opportunities for widening species diversity in Arkansas's trout waters. Regular stockings of cutthroat were begun early this decade and today cutthroats in the 2-to-3-pound range are common. It is a new World Record. Search for the biggest fish in the International Game Fish Association's database of biggest fish for each species. Lake trout are the largest of the chars; the record weighed almost 102 pounds (46 kg) (netted) with a length of 50 inches (130 cm), and 15–40-pound (6.8–18.1-kilogram) fish are not uncommon. You can search all IGFA World Records for freshwater and saltwater fishes in All-TackleLine Class, All-Tackle Length for male, female and junior anglers. Faced with the devastation of significant stretches of habitat for warm-water fish species, the AG&FC decided to introduce trout into the combined 97 miles of oxygen-rich, cold-water races below the dams. list as the all-tackle world record a 72-pound lake trout caught in Great Bear Lake in Canada’s Northern Territories in 1995. }
The record steelhead was caught on the Smith River in 1976, weighing in at 27 pounds, 4 ounces. Rainbow trout were first stocked on the Spring around the turn of the century. –Images courtesy of Erik Poland. This record stood until it was surpassed in 2009. Species Location Year cm/in. Ledbetter’s seatrout measured 34.25 inches, or 87 centimeters, making it about 10 centimeters longer that the current length-record held by the International Game Fish Association (IGFA). Prior to 1950, Arkansas trout fishing was basically limited to the state's only major cold-water stream, the Spring River. Cooperating with federal officials, they placed 39,216 rainbow trout into the streams in 1951. The current state record (9 pounds, 9 ounces) was caught on the White in October, 1985. In the past two decades, increased fishing pressure on the White and North Fork has mostly limited catches of trophy rainbows to catch-and-release areas (though overall catch rates remain among the nation's highest). “Most state records, when bested, are done so by only a few ounces. The Spring begins as the 58-degree, 9-million-gallons-an-hour flow of Mammoth Spring, which is located in Arkansas at the Missouri state line. After a test stocking of brook trout in the 1980s, the AG&FC began stocking them in the Spring River and three tailwater sites in 1995. By the late 1970s, it was clear that, with only a jump start from AG&FC, the brown trout had succeeded in developing its own wild population. In 1985, the AG&FC came into possession of its own trout hatchery, a donation from the Kroger Co. of Cincinnati. Fish and Wildlife Service opened the Norfork National Fish Hatchery near Norfork. }
The world record for a brown trout (40 pounds, 4 ounces) was set in May 1992 on the Little Red River, 29 miles of which had become suitable trout habitat with the completion of the Greers Ferry Dam in the early 1960s. Knight’s fish shattered the old record by over 9 pounds. When it comes to fish, Arkansas is most famous beyond its borders for the outstanding trout fisheries that have been developed over the last five decades by the AG&FC with help from two federal trout hatcheries.