- Potential new world record brown trout caught last Friday. Where was it caught? Where else. Lake Michigan. The fish, caught off Racine Wisconsin while trolling for salmon, is not a certified world record yet, but it’s official weight does edge out the previous world record brown caught just last fall in the lower Manistee River, a tributary to Lake Michigan. If two 40lb+ browns are caught in the same year, you know there are probably quite a few more out there. Lake Michigan may be an ecological disaster, but it grows some freakishly big fish.
And if you didn’t see it yesterday, here it is again: Beaver Island on the Fly