A 75-year-old fishing record, the oldest in Colorado, was broken when Tim Daniel of Granby landed a 7.84-pound brook trout at Monarch Lake, a fishery officials suspected was home to the state record.
“When I headed out to fish that day with my friend Karen and four-legged friend Moose, I had no intention of breaking a record,” Daniel told Colorado Parks and Wildlife. “I wasn’t sure what I had hooked, but I knew it was big.”
The brook trout measured 23¼ inches in length, had a 15-inch girth, and surpassed the previous record by a slim margin. The old mark was 7.63 pounds caught by George Knorr in Upper Cataract Lake in 1947.
