Utah State Record Lake Trout

The fish Smiley.
Utah state record lake trout. 6 UPI -- A Utah angler broke a 32-year-old state record when he reeled in a lake trout that weighed in at a staggering 53 pounds. A fisherman in the Beehive State smashed a 32-year-old record when he hooked a massive lake trout just days after the Utah Division of. Five of Utahs fishing records have been set at the Flaming Gorge Reservoir Rainbow Trout Lake Trout Brown Trouth White Sucker and Kokanee Salmon.
2019-12-16 The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources is making several changes to the states fishing records in 2020 including adding several new record categories for cutthroat trout. 2019-06-14 Matt Smiley of Fairplay poses with the record 48-inch lake trout he caught at Flaming Gorge Reservoir in northeastern Utah on May 4. 2020-12-29 The Utah record for lake trout is 53 pounds 15 ounces caught by Chance Scott earlier in the year.
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources The same week Kendall Johnson hooked a record golden trout at Marsh Lake. 2019-10-18 Isaac Vance was all smiles after landing a prized golden trout recently in Utah and the 13-year-old must have been even happier to learn that his catch breaks a 42-year-old state record. But when he got a bite it was a big one.
Hes now the current catch-and-release state record holder for lake trout. It was set all the way back in 1988 but that fish was also caught at the Flaming Gorge Reservoir. 2017-07-20 The Utah state record for a kept Lake Trout is 51 pounds 8 ounces.
The fish was caught at Flaming Gorge and was 48 inches long. Theres never been a better time to go fishing in Utah. 2019-06-13 Matt Smiley of Fairplay Colo caught a 48-inch lake trout at Flaming Gorge Reservoir last month.
Cutthroat are regularly caught in the 2 to 5 lb range with some falling in the 8 to 10 lb range. The record before that was a 515-pounder in. I had been wanting to catch a fish over.