102 Lb Lake Trout

Lake trout are the largest trout native to North America.
102 lb lake trout. It turned out to be an abnormal fish a male whose testes failed to develop allowing all of its food intake to be utilized for growth. The largest lake trout on record weighed 463 kg 102 lb which was caught by the commercial fishery at Lake Athabasca Saskatchewan in 1961. Trout live well over 70 years.
Lake trout are the largest of the chars the record weighing almost 463 kg 102 lb. 2017-03-20 83-Pound Lake Trout that Wouldve Smashed the World Record OutdoorHub Reporters 032017 The rod-and-reel world record for lake trout is 72 pounds and was caught in 1995 on Great Bear Lake in. Recently at Plummers Lodge on Great Bear Lake there was a 7885 pound trout that was caught and released and is the unofficial World Record Lake Trout at this time.
It is also very late to mature. In 1961 a massive 102 pound46 kg Lake Trout was caught in Lake Athabasca Saskatchewan using a net. Lake trout inhabit cold oxygen-rich waters.
Their flesh is firm with an excellent flavor and may appear white pink orange or orange-red. It features in the annual lake trout fishing derby of the people of Geneva and New York. Habitat can greatly affect the lake trouts diet.
They are pelagic during the period of summer stratification in dimictic lakes often living at depths of 2060 m 60200 ft. The official live release record trout caught on Lake Athabasca in 2000 was 132 cm 52 in long. Lake Athabasca contains 23 species of fish with a world record lake trout of 463 kg 102 lb caught from its depths in 1961 by means of a gillnet.
It is also very late to mature. Lake trout inhabit cold oxygen-rich waters. The largest lake trout on a rod and reel is 72 lbs caught by Lloyd Bull in Great Bear Lake Canada on July 19 1991.