25 Lb. Brown Shocked Up By Agfc

[Quillback]

The Outdoor section in today's Benton County Record has a short piece about a 25 lb Brown the AGFC survey folks shocked up the night of July 19. They've shocked it up several times before in past years they think, as they always find it in the same area. Not much else to the story besides that.

[ollie]

It wouldn't surprise me one bit, that place has some nice fish in it for sure. My biggest brown out of there was a 19" and it was chunky. Saw some nicer ones in there before too.

[Terry Beeson]

No doubt there are 25 lb browns in the Beaver tail waters. I don't think Beaver will ever produce a world record, but it certainly has the potential to produce big trophy trout. Now if the AGFC will just set the regs to protect these big fish so we can get the world record back to the White River system...

[Ham]

Now if the AGFC will just set the regs to protect these big fish so we can get the world record back to the White River system...

There's a world record Brown trout swimming in the White right now. Getting it to bite and landing it once you hook it are all that stands in the way. The current Brown Trout regs are going to give us a LOT more chances at catching big browns. About the only regulation changes I'd be passiomately in favor of making would be to make all on the Norfork river below the dam to the confluence TOTAL catch and release AND stopping all fishing when the oxygen levels get too low. Let the biologist set the boundries for that area and set up the oxygen parameters and monitors.