Traverse City Record-Eagle

September 11, 2009

Record brown trout caught in Manistee

FROM STAFF REPORTS

MANISTEE -- An angler has landed the heaviest brown trout on record in Michigan. Tom Healy of Rockford hooked the 41-pound, 7 1/4-ounce trout Wednesday from a boat in the Manistee River. The previous state record for a brown trout was a 36-pound, 13-ounce specimen caught in Frankfort in 2007.