Jeffery Sanford was overjoyed for obvious reasons after his recent catch of a 19.36-pound lake trout in the Vermont portion of Lake Champlain. “I just got my first boat this year, and it was my ...

Fishing at an undisclosed lake in Colorado, Scott Enloe battled a big-bellied lake trout that was so big it wouldn’t fit into the net. So, after a 13-minute battle, Scott and his son Hunter ...

The coded wire tag indicated the fish hatched in 1984 and was raised at the Iron River National Fish Hatchery and stocked on ...

A common length for lake trout is 19.7 inches, according to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. The largest ever recorded clocked in at 59 inches long. Tanner poses with the massive lake trout.

Since 1983, the minimum size for trout, found in public waterways, to be kept has been 7 inches. In an effort to protect young, wild trout, the agency is undergoing a study to see if the minimum ...

On a hand scale, the humongous lake trout weighed 73.29 pounds and measured 47 inches. By comparison, the official world-record lake trout is 72 pounds caught on Aug. 19, 1995 by Lloyd Bull in ...