26-YEAR RECORD FALLS
Ashton Angler Lands Record Brown
By Bill Schneider, 11-16-07
Wes Case with his record brownie. Photo courtesy of Jim Fredericks, Idaho Department of Fish and Game.
Wes Case knew there were some big brown trout in Ashton Reservoir, near Idaho Falls, Idaho, and he sure was right. On November 6, after a long battle on 8-pound line, he landed a 37-inch behemoth, weighing 27.3 pounds, big enough for a new Idaho State Record.
Dan Garren, regional fishery biologist with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game verified the weight with a certified scale. The previous record was a 26.5-pounder caught in the South Fork of the Snake River in 1981.
“It took me about an hour to land it,” Case said in a press release from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. “It headed out to deep water and just laid there, so I just kept the pressure on it.”
“I had to scramble down the rocks and through the brush to land it,” he said. “When I finally got it up on the bank, I just sat on the shore and stared at it for about 10 minutes. It was totally amazing.”
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