On the weekend of July fourth, 2025, Benjamin Ferguson caught a record-breaking brook trout while fishing a remote pond on a three-day canoe trip. The previous record was set in 2013 by Rick Beauchamp ...

The north country has caught a case of fish-record-breaking fever, as another angler has recorded a top catch in local waters in the past 12 months. Last week, the New York State Department of ...

The all-tackle record of a huge lake trout answers the question "What is the biggest trout ever caught on rod and reel?" But that question, in fairness, should ask what is the biggest trout ever ...

Ferguson said that after a quick visit with DEC officials on July 6, where they confirmed the fish was a brook trout and not a splake, he got a call from the agency letting him know his state record ...

His catch breaks the 2013 record set in the southern Adirondacks by Rick Beauchamp, who had reeled in a 22.5-inch Brook Trout weighing six pounds.

After 12 years, the New York State brook trout record has been broken again. On July 5, Benjamin Ferguson of Croghan, NY, reeled in a  6-pound, 3-ounce brook trout. After an interesting sequence ...

Recently on Facebook, there were pictures and an article about a giant brook trout that was caught in the Adirondacks on July ...

The story of Ben Ferguson’s record brook trout has touched a lot of people and created a variety of responses in many people. Perhaps because the brook trout are so beautiful or are the state ...

A filmmaker from British Columbia has used Nipigon, Ontario's world record brook trout as the back story for a new feature film. Travis Lowe's movie "Finding Fontinalis" will be shown in Thunder ...

He's famous for catching the world record brook trout, but Dr. J. W. Cook actually smashed two world records during his fishing trip on the Nipigon River back in 1915.

The Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame has awarded Manitoba, Canada, angler Tim Matheson, its Fresh Water Fish, World Angling Record for a 29-inch brook trout Matheson caught and released, ...

The brook trout weighed 2 pounds, 14.56 ounces, which broke the 2-pound, 12-ounce record that had been caught Feb. 12 in Lake Jocassee by Bryan Lee of Mauldin.