BOISE, Idaho — Reeling in the "big one" is every angler's dream, but it became a reality for one Stansbury Park, Utah man who caught a record-setting lake trout in Payette Lake. On June 19, 2025, ...

Benjamin Ferguson (right) holds up the state-record brook trout alongside his fishing buddy Shawn Widrick; Ferguson caught the trout during a three-day canoe trip in the Adirondacks. Benjamin Ferguson ...

Idaho officials were proud to announce a new state-record lake trout Monday. The 42-inch lunker was caught by Aaron Goettsche, a fisherman and rod maker from Utah, and a lot of their excitement stems ...

A Utah man set an Idaho state record back in June, catching a 42-inch Lake Trout inside of Payette Lake, state officials said. According to a news release from the Idaho Fish and Game, Aaron Goettsch, ...

Idaho fly angler Cyndle Clift has quite the tale on her hands. In March, she hooked a 8- to 10-pound, roughly 28-inch Yellowstone cutthroat on the South Fork of the Snake River. But she nearly lost it ...

It was 6 a.m. on June 6, and veteran angler Shelby Holder was prowling the edges of the Hams Fork River in Wyoming. He was looking for rainbow trout, which he says were spawning at the time, but later ...

MCCALL — Aaron Goettsche is no stranger to monster lake trout. An avid angler, fishing rod maker, and longtime veteran on Utah’s/Wyoming’s famous Flaming Gorge Reservoir — a world-renowned fishery ...

MANNINGTON, W.Va. (WBOY) — A Marion County man caught the largest tiger trout ever recorded in West Virginia last month. Grant Town resident Robert Riggs made the catch on March 28 at Mannington Lake, ...

Idaho's state records for tiger trout have been falling at a dizzying pace at Deer Creek Reservoir near Headquarters, and it might not be over yet. For now, Rick Miller of Orofino is state champ when ...

Benjamin Ferguson has taken his canoe all across the Adirondacks, searching for big brook trout in wild places. And during a paddling expedition over Fourth of July weekend, the adventurous New Yorker ...