359-lb Rainbow! HOAX fishing report. LOL MORE PICS!

[Time Off]

April 26th, 2008

Trail B.C.

--Bruce Kruk, who blindfolds his friends to keep his favorite fishing spot secret has come up with a record-beating fish -- a rainbow trout weighing 359.1 pounds.The giant hauled in by Bruce Kruk of Trail BC is 12 ounces above the previous Columbia River record, a BC biologist confirmed It's been cut down to fillets. The first fillet weighed 53 pounds, Bruce said. He caught it near a chemical outflow on the Columbia River . He won't give a more specific description.

'I put myself in a harness and just had to lay back and fight,' Bruce said. 'It was about a 15 or 20 minute fight.' Bruce cleaned the fish late Monday afternoon. 'We'll split it up,' he said.

'I'll make some phone calls and try to get rid of it fresh. The rest, we'll vacuum pack it and cook it later.' Bruce says he believes the fish is about 33 years old. He plans to send an inner-ear bone called the otolith to a university in Victoria where researchers can help determine the
age of the fish. He hopes to get the results in about four weeks.

The world record, caught in BC in 1985, is 436 pounds, 12 ounces.



Okay I added more pics that tells more of the story.

[steelfreak]

HUH?!?! Yeah right! That's one funny looking Rainbow

[Chrome Bumper]

Looks like a Goliath grouper cross. They get that big in 2 years on the Hanford reach. They are pretty spooky as they are pretty leader shy having three eyes and all, you don't see many in the creel. We limited out a few days back, but the boat sank under the weight before we could get a picture.

[quit wishing]

Timeoff...we now know what you do with all your timeoff. Excellent fish story.

[Incredible_Bulk]

LOL!! Well done that's quite the catch! They're also hard to land with the x-ray vision, laser eyes, superhuman strength, and the spidey sense.

Bulk

[Fish Mode]

Originally Posted by Chrome Bumper

Looks like a Goliath grouper cross. They get that big in 2 years on the Hanford reach. They are pretty spooky as they are pretty leader shy having three eyes and all, you don't see many in the creel. We limited out a few days back, but the boat sank under the weight before we could get a picture.

I heard from a 'reliable' source, they've been able to mix around with the DNA of these beasts so they can get this size in two months

They can effortlessly eat 50 burgers in a sitting, or is that a floating...

[Stowaway]

Another reliable source said it was caught on a bowling ball size ball of Pink Power Bait using 27 jars and wrapped on a 30/0 treble hook. It took 48oz of lead to keep the ball from drifting off the bottom.

[B33R]

Originally Posted by Stowaway

Another reliable source said it was caught on a bowling ball size ball of Pink Power Bait using 27 jars and wrapped on a 30/0 treble hook. It took 48oz of lead to keep the ball from drifting off the bottom.

This made me lol

[Boat Monkey]

Originally Posted by Stowaway

Another reliable source said it was caught on a bowling ball size ball of Pink Power Bait using 27 jars and wrapped on a 30/0 treble hook. It took 48oz of lead to keep the ball from drifting off the bottom.

LOL... Or 5 bags of marshmellows strung like christmas decorations and wrapped around an anchor

[SImudBogger]

i heard he snagged it with the achor rope.

Damn flossers....

[Time Off]

ttt

[Dave G]

It is a big something, but not a rainbow. lol

[feisty]

Originally Posted by Chrome Bumper

Looks like a Goliath grouper cross. They get that big in 2 years on the Hanford reach. They are pretty spooky as they are pretty leader shy having three eyes and all, you don't see many in the creel. We limited out a few days back, but the boat sank under the weight before we could get a picture.

Getting kind of deep, a'int it?

[fishkisser]

Originally Posted by feisty

Getting kind of deep, a'int it?

Time to break out the muck boots ...

[Chrome Bumper]

My hip waders are about to get over topped like a New Orleans levee in a hurricane.