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Brook trout catch breaks 75-year-old Colorado record

Brook trout catch breaks 75-year-old Colorado record
Brook trout catch breaks 75-year-old Colorado record 00:31

An angler from Granby set a new Colorado fishing record.

Tim Daniel caught a huge brook trout at Monarch Lake that weighed in at 7.84 pounds in late May. It had a girth of just over 15 inches and was 23.25 inches long.

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Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirmed that this catch bettered the old record that was set in 1947. It was the Centennial State's longest-standing fish record.

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