26-YEAR RECORD FALLS
Ashton Angler Lands Record Brown
By Bill Schneider, 11-16-07
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| Wes Case with his record brownie. Photo courtesy of Jim Fredericks, Idaho Department of Fish and Game. | |
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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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