48 pound trout Holy macaroni!!!

[Pez]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...npu=1&mbid=yhp

can you imagine hooking this behemoth while trout fishing on your trout outfit.

[Dabalone]

Basically a juiced trout, it is incredible. No way this should be a record Rainbow, hybrid rainbow yes and it should have its own category for record keeping, as well as anything else genetically tweaked we keep records of. Would be a shame to put this thing in the record books ahead of a legitimate natural rainbow.

Thinking, if they can do that to a rainbow trout imagine tweaked King salmon, 200 pound Kings in our future?

[medfly]

ugly mutant not even worth chasing

[Darian]

So What!!!! Probably was a lot of fun to catch....

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Wow...........that's how I feel after eating a big Thanks Giving meal.

[TaylerW]

no matter how ugly or "fake" this fish may be, id love to catch it

[Fochetti]

Saw this on Yahoo, it is genetically altered. It can not reproduce, so it can spend the extra energy usually used up spawning to grow very large. At least that is what the article stated.

[jbird]

Saw this on Yahoo, it is genetically altered. It can not reproduce, so it can spend the extra energy usually used up spawning to grow very large. At least that is what the article stated.

This is not uncommon at all. Triploid trout are stocked in many lakes. A good number of trophy trout lakes have geneticaly altered fish that cannot reproduce.

[dryflychico]

I agree with Dabalone. My views are not as harsh as some when it comes to these mutants, I would still love to catch a monster like that but there should absolutely be a 2nd category in the record books for these genetically altered fish. Just have two records and a lot of the debate would go away.

Just my .02 cents and it's probably worth every penny.

dryflychico (aka Josh)

[Darian]

All debate would be unnecessary if we weren't interested in records....