07-27-2020, 01:28 PM
Tarponjim Wrote:No such thing as a "good" picture of a dead 50 year old lake trout. I did see a close up of the ______ holding it though. Record? There have been several larger than that released in recent years, including a 63 two years ago. The one he killed has likely been released a bunch of times over the decades just so this peice of . . . I better stop.
I will say I 100% agree that it should have been C&R'd as a fish that old isn't going to be worth eating and you can get a replica mount that will look just as good, if not better then a skin mount.
Just was curious of what it looked it as the picture I have, don't look like the monster I would have imagined.
I also have seen pictures from guides that have caught and released "record breaker" fish over the years.
I will say that IMO although it is completely legal, I don't think it is morally right to kill a big fish this old just for the record.