World Record Brook Trout | Nipigon River Ontario

[@curtisamos1615]

I'm from Thunder Bay Ontario Canada....45 minutes drive is nipigon river..brook trout fishing is in my blood

[@Mainland444]

Got a chance to fish it from shore in the mid 90's just by a roadside pullout near where 11 & 17 highways met. I still remember it today. Landed 4 brookies dry fly all in the 19-20 inch range and chunky. Still my best brookies!

[@raymonblodgett4537]

When I was a teenager I was camping with my family at Weber Lake in the California Sierra Mountains. The lake was a private lake at that time. This would be in the late 1960's. I caught a 3 1/2 pound Brook Trout trolling with spinner blades and night crawler. That is still my biggest brook trout. A few days later I caught a 7 1/2 Brown trolling a flat fish in the evening. I miss those days with my family camping.

[@suzannekukko5860]

The Nipigon Historical Museum is now in possession of the rod that caught the world record brook trout!! I stopped by to see it the other week. Very cool!!!

[@monmixer]

Did she charge you a nickel?

[@manifestgtr]

I hope these people understand how special their fish are. I fish for native brookies in the white mountains during the summer. Average catch is probably 4-6” and a “trophy fish” is 12”. Granted, we’re fishing in brooks that you could hop across with little effort but still…seeing brook trout of this magnitude is mind blowing for a typical native brookie hunter like me.

[@newflyfisher]

Hopefully you will get an opportunity to visit the Nipigon River region in the near future. We have more shows/videos planned for this region coming in 2025. Cheers

[@The_fish_rizzler]

Wow gotta love those small towns with deep rooted fishing history

[@jamesreiman9849]

Fished that river all the time when I was young (early 1970's). Good memories

[@klantifashakur9894]

Lucky bastard

[@jeansimard6944]

Beautiful video. I really want to go fish the Nipigon river ASAP now. I love the respect shown to nature in this video. It's just really great.

[@kjvtruth9831]

Great video.. I actually broke this record when I lived in Argentina. The problem was I couldn't get the fish to a scale in time and it dried out a few ounces. I was around 18 years old and the catch is written in Nick Karas' book entitled "Brook Trout"... It was a wonderful memory, and the trout weighed in at just under the record when we finally got it weighed.. After I got it mounted, It resided in the guiness book of world records in Gatlinburg TN for many years. It now is with my Dad in Virginia and I have a copy of it on my living room wall. The fish is a testamony to my dad who has fished almost exclusively for brookies since he was a boy.. perhaps one of the most accomplished fishermen the world has ever known.. Love you Dad! Thanks for the memories!

[@dgreenbluet]

Sounds like some fish tales to me!

[@suecook659]

KJVTRUTH well how much did it weigh?

[@kjvtruth9831]

Well, Sue, in retrospect, I guess I probably didn't actually break the record... Dr. Cook's weighed in at something like 14 1/2lbs.. mine when it got weighed was 12.2 It took us at least 2 days to get it to the scales. I'm sure that it lost at least a half a pound... so it still wouldn't have broken the record... my apologies.. but it was still a crazy cool catch!

[@kevinsmith8318]

KJVTRUTH they have bought 30 to 40 pound 45 inch trout in new zealend

[@upsidedahead]

Great story !

[@walter777smith6]

OMG I use to fish there so many times. What a beautiful place Lake trout Salmon Brooke trout. Beautiful memories lot's of fun.

[@outasightgear]

Wow!! Just amazing brookies!! Thanks for putting this together.

[@UsedBrain4U]

My father grew up in Nipigon. His 2 brothers still live there. One has a 9lb mounted and the other has a 6lb mounted. They are both very impressive fish.

[@mbaker24]

Great history and episode!

[@mauricebrown9094]

Great video lads... good area information , and great footage , , makes you just want to go there ..thank you for sharing.

[@shanewells9067]

Saturday Michigan opens, good luck everyone

[@STEAMBOLTANNIE]

I still have my mount from (Telesky taxidermy ) I caught a 6.5 pound brookie from emerald lake north of manitouwadge Ont. They did such a great job mounting it that today it looks like the day I caught it...that was 36 years ago! They also mounted my 14 pound pickerel.

[@frogsnacks]

I live there and still fish emerald, I've only gotten them up to just under 5lbs though. The waters still as clear as it was 36 years ago too, what a beautiful little lake.

[@SeanCleverly]

What a truly wonderful trip back through history. As an Australian, we don't get to fish for many of the North American/ Canadian species obviously and the size of our Rainbows and Brown Trout are nothing by comparison. The biggest Trout probably are to be found in Tasmania, cold oxygen rich waters over there are highly conducive to large fish, but here in my neck of the world. W.A. we just don't get monster Trout, so it was a real pleasure to watch this. Thank you for sharing.

[@adirondackwayne]

Nice job lots of good content and your video work is flawless.

[@reeloutdoorscanada]

Amazing footage!

[@Taoghiro]

Great video. What a wonderful outlook on life!

[@ChrisWalklet]

Its a shame would like to go back in time. Good info and well done.

[@Htown113]

SUCH AN AWESOME VIDEO! THANK YOU!

[@seandonovan5559]

2nd trout I ever caught was a 27 inch native brookie out of the saddle river,new jersey. I new nothing of trout and I ate it. That same year I caught an 11 pound largemouth ,a kid from Florida, I saw it was a female with eggs and let her go. Years later I find out both of these fish would have been state records

[@sparkablizzy9983]

Sorry to burst your bubble none of those 2 would have been state records the record largemouth in florida is like somthing stupid big same with a brekkie from jersy

[@unclefuddelmer9224]

Now that’s what I call a fishin Story👍😎😁

[@unclefuddelmer9224]

Sean D. ...You’ve reminded me of 50 years ago as a teenager I caught a 16.5” Brook, my 1st one, brought it home and thru it into the freezer planning to mount it. He was probably 3- 3.5# or so. Next morning I went to get to show my younger brother being all proud. Just to find out he came home drunk the night before AND COOKED & ATE IT❗️ He said “ I wondered why it still had the guts inside!” Honestly a true fish story.

[@keithsage7258]

My Father and Uncles fished this river many years before the dam was built.

[@channelcats7041]

As a young boy my grandfather used to fish the nipigon all the time and his biggest brook he ever caught was a 26 incher that weighed just under 12 pounds, they’re such thick fish

[@David-uj2ms]

Great show!

[@bassmasterillinois2252]

I had the opportunity to go out and fish lake nipigon at the mouth of the river with family, caught my pb 22 inches

[@psa10hunter94]

I enjoyed this video, thanks!

[@tedgorsline6318]

A larger brook tout may have been caught in Labrador. Is weight was estimated at 17 pounds. It was released. The world record Nipigon fish was split itwo and both halves mounted. I measured one of the halves before it was stolen. My memory is a bit foggy now but I believe it was from 36 to 38 inches long. It was not caught on a fly like Field and Stream Magazine claimed. It was caught on a fresh water sculpin not a fly. I interviewed the guide for the angler who caught it when it was caught.

[@jasonralph5767]

6.2lbs my record in Nfld.

[@Esox-cw1ik]

Great vid

[@beebop9808]

Someone needs to take a trip to the Smokey mountains. Stop in at the local restaurants and check the pictures on the walls. There's loads of huge specks in this class that were caught by loggers in the 50's while they were logging out the American chestnut killed by the blight. All since gone with the ignorant introduction of rainbows and browns to compliment the Chinese chestnut blight.

[@nickking1510]

I caught some of the tiny rainbows at Cade’s cove about 30 years ago in the park 6 inches fully mature. I read that logging in the late 1880 damage the creeks causing silting and temp increase so then they started stocking rainbows to replace the lost brook trout. Here in southwestern Ontario most of our former brook trout creek have been damaged from clear cutting and denuded channelized creeks urbanization run to many nutrients from lawns ,golf courses, industrial agricultural, and municipal spraying of ditches along most roadsides with herbicides . Also most of the head waters of our rivers are classified as municipal drains and a cut channelized . These tiny creeks or creeklets are vital for the survival of tiny young brook trout very little concern over any of this it not Co2.

[@willyeo43]

This reminds me of p.e.i sea run brook trout

[@ImSoAkai]

Very interesting!

[@LarrySmithOutdoors]

Awesome! Great video!

[@georgemartian2827]

I was 8 years old. Was entered in the fishing derby. Caught a catfish one ounce under a lb. Couldnt win a prize. I was with my father and a man offered me a bag of pan fish. My Dad let me make the decision. He explained how it would be lieing and stealing and it would bother me. It did right at that momment in the decision I must make. I went to booth and weighed in. I received a little wee trophy. My total weigh in was 11 ounces. Fishing memeories have life lessons for me. I love the sport and the peace I have out on a small bropokie lake all alone. or with my son. God Bless

[@justinwilliams9452]

16 ounces in a pound bro , u suck even more I took my niece fishing for the first time to a kids trout derby at my all time fav lil pond its a vo-op hatchery so they raised fish & the state sticks it its a gun club land open to public , chick caught 89 trout in 4hrs I came back in the morning for the adult derby n completely smashed my personal best with 362 trout in 10hrs my roommate caught round 250 hungover like a b his sweater he never left the chair now they out a record number of fish that ur they had a robbery all their pumps n generators got stolen there were huge donations it got news n facebook coverage from that fucking moment she was hooked I got her man now shrs ny ototege gonna give her all my shit in my will I've been fishing since I hit the dirt n I don't throw nothin away fishing or hunting and she turns 12 this yr legal hunting age where she needs her very own own license cant wait to sit thru a 9 hr safety course again I ain't retakin the test wit her tho I aced it she will too

[@georgehaddaway3762]

@@justinwilliams9452 Sorry, I can't understand stupid..

[@yuriideresh]

Пан Мельник вітання з вашої Батьківщини))

[@wirymarrow9435]

This record was broken by someone who caught one a pound bigger at barbe lake Manitoba but for some reason it didn’t qualify for being a record

[@newflyfisher]

I've seen the pic and understand the angler released the fish. But guess the way they measured/weighed the fish did not meet IGFA standards, so it does not count...but it was a giant!

[@bronsonwawia9582]

I'm from here 7.5 pound was my biggest caught right under the nipigon river bridge my cousin lost one on shore that I'm sure looked bigger than my 7.5 lb er

[@unclefuddelmer9224]

I love to hear and read great fish catching stories like yours even if they’re lost on the bank! thanks a bunch man

[@rogerw.schultz9150]

This has always been a dream of mine. A whole lake full of monster square tails. ABY

[@lukegriebel]

5 lb brookie! Wow

[@gopro_audio]

NEW 2014 WORLD RECORD RAINBOW Hybrid Trout 34 lb. 11.8 oz. Idaho American Falls Reservoir.

[@gopro_audio]

not a brook I know but way bigger trout have been caught, many in Idaho.

[@canadiantaxslave8300]

@@gopro_audio check out fishing geeks channel. Manitoba rainbow record.

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

Alaska has 43 lbs rainbow/steelhead. Bell island

[@AndrewBeveridge461]

This video is great but just makes me sad. The Pine Portage dam only produces about 130MW. That's about enough for 80k homes. One medium size town. The rough equivalent of about 50-65 typical utility-scale wind turbines. I know Canada loves its hydropower, and it's great that it's CO2-free. But damn if a lot of incredible places and fisheries have been just wrecked by it. That's a rough trade off, and will continue to look worse and worse as the cost of solar and wind continue to come down. You'd love to at least see fish ladders or some other means of making the dams passable, but even with that you don't guarantee anything considering the fish may not thrive in the reservoirs or successfully swim up them. The US is obviously guilty of this as well, but there have been a significant number of dam removals (usually at the time of of license renewal, because companies decide it's cheaper to pull it than to bring it up to current standards). And the US has pretty much gotten out of the business of building new massive dams. Hopefully going forward, Canada power producers can find ways to move to other energy sources that aren't so hard on these fishing and scenic resources.

[@tdk74]

The gloves do more damage to the fish then wet bare hands

[@chadbloss5479]

WalterRamjet HeroOfOurNation You get the idea. This is not a literature course.

[@bevrizzolo1588]

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[@SleepyGH22A]

31.5x23 sounds right to me. Incredible to happen still and too bad it won't likely happen again

[@ManicMindTrick]

I put those measurements into two different trout measurement calculator and one said almost 21lb an the other 18.5 so I'm not so sure.

[@unclefuddelmer9224]

Y’all never know what’ll happen in the future

[@FeldwebelWolfenstool]

Buddy lost a 10 lb. + Brookie last week of the season up here, not sayin' exactly where...season opens again in a couple of weeks...a high-school pal's old man used to own a lodge on the Nipigon R. Fishing there has never been better, since they instituted catch-and-release. That poor friend of mine drowned in that very river when he was 17...R.I.P.

[@jamesreiman9849]

Was your friend Harold Baron?

[@missesmew]

Sorry for your loss. I live right on the reservation beside the Nipigon. Many years ago I drunkenly swam across it when the water was low. I made it from the nipigon side to the reserve side and the current sucked the shoes off my feet. lol I’m lucky to be here. The current you see on the surface is absolutely nothing compared with the torrent underneath. Scary power

[@xXtimesplitterxX]

Native brook trout. The north american gem! Thankfully there are biologists today that protect the species.

[@user-fl6nr7et8l]

the brook trout was weighed several days after its death and was likely 20 lbs. while alive

[@OutkastAdventures]

Nice video man and nice char. Hope our channel (Outkast Adventures in Connecticut) can get as popular as yours someday. Keep up the great fishing footage. Never gets old.

[@scottie8984]

They are my favorite fish to eat👍

[@keithsage7258]

Good old T-Bay..Boy did I get drunk.The black flies were every where and the mosquito's vicious ,,,It was raining and snowing we had waves, whitecaps it was thundering and lighting the sky was on FIRE..We killed the Brook trout one every 4 to 5 minuits. We got board..We killed the walleyes Dave brought his smoker..Smoked walleye is great and smoked pike is right up there too.

[@waxandwayne]

Funny that the record brookie came from a river called "Nip-again"

[@samsonpamson893]

Hilarious

[@adanacman666]

you havent lived until you fish for speckies on the mighty nipigon river now if i could just catch one haha

[@sweynforkbeard8857]

I went up there and my impression was of a really big river with a lot of "greased bowling balls" (rocks) in it. Pretty much impossible to wade fish, so that did not have a lot a appeal to me. Lake Nipigon with it's huge pike is another story. Definitely got to make that trip. I'm also curious about the tributaries to Lake Nipigon and if any of them get fall runs from the lake.

[@unclefuddelmer9224]

@@sweynforkbeard8857 ...Ha that’s what I’ve been thinking that I’d love to fish all the Feeder Cricks They’ve gotta be boiling with brooks and browns you’d think right⁉️

[@PauzSycho]

Skip to 1:48 thank me later

[@altitudeillume6729]

#clickbait title BLOW THE DAMN DAM, DAMMIT.

[@patricknoveski6409]

When's the Dam coming down?

[@sweynforkbeard8857]

You wanted green energy. This is the price you pay (unless you think nuclear power is OK).

[@derekcollins1972]

@@sweynforkbeard8857 I like that idea better than damning off rivers

[@nickking1510]

Exactly is that Cameron falls

[@ManicMindTrick]

Demolish the dam, let the water flow like nature intend it to flow. Replace electricity production with solar roofs and generation three/four reactors.

[@ManicMindTrick]

@WalterRamjet HeroOfOurNation Never is a very long time. Hydro could be replaced with nuclear power and solar if the will is there. A lot of spent fuel laying around that could be used as fuel in next generation reactors. Burning wood sounds absolutely retarded if you don't mind me saying it.

[@SCROGY]

Apparently nature intended fields to be covered with thousands of solar panels and intended for Fukushima to poison the Pacific ocean.....:/

[@moottorisorsa3099]

ManicMindTrick check out kemijoki, a couple of generations got robbed out of the salmons that it used to have, me included

[@nickking1510]

Not reactors all of them leak period don’t be fooled . . The older they get the radiation and all the daughter isotopes go through the containment/cement/ piping into the environment. Any nuclear accidents released to the air water or ground are very serious . The multiple continuing reactor core and fuel rods meltdowns have been polluting the water and air into the Pacific Ocean for years with little media coverage and on going . As Albert Einstein said it a hell of a way to boil water !

[@nickking1510]

If the dam can’t be demolished for energy reasons . Why not build an artificial channel to allow the fish to migrate freely ,not some useless fish ladder as I haha seen on great lakes rivers . I would cost money but some of the river water above the dam could be opened up inland to allow a sizeable artificial river (not cheesy fish ladder ) to flow around the dam it could also be part of an emergency spill way in case of flooding . The artificial river granted would not be as good as dam removal but would allow fish to Lake Superior to lake Nipigon un impeded .

[@justinwilliams2346]

Biggest brown I have ever caught is a 2 1/2 pound convict lake in 2000

[@bmoutdoors6870]

Justin Williams-Giroux how long? My pb is 19 and a half inches

[@erictrottier927]

nice glove

[@Alan-oo2cq]

The river and Nipigon bay are both great .Flies ,ebgs .just go to 8-15; you'll get specs +15 nice Lakers and even some golden whitefish.Lots of motel/ loges off Hw 17. Good luck.lots of fish. Catch and realised Lakers.specs very good!! Also cohoe in the lake outside the bay,.😊😊😊🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@oak8728]

Ditch the glove when handling a fish, especially any you choose to release.

[@tdoutdoors6423]

I’ve meet the don gapan man his lures work good I’ve met him like 4 times

[@brianmcdonald9502]

Don't wind the line in, bring it in with your with your fingers let the line drop at your feet.

[@swagmcgee3558]

what kind of reel do u use?

[@STEAMBOLTANNIE]

The whole North shore of Lake Superior is pretty much poverty stricken today. Some work but certainly not like it was in the 50s to late 80s. Mostly American paper companies pulled out and left us Canadians ship wrecked.I live in Manitouwadge retired now and wouldn't move to the City if you gave me 5 million. FACT!!

[@JaimieTLA]

My biggest Brookie was just over 7 pounds in Jasper Ab, i wont say the lake.

[@newflyfisher]

I may actually know what lake you speak of...but will not say it here! Have a great 2020 season!

[@JaimieTLA]

@@newflyfisher You too friend!

[@shawnyork9065]

Maligne! Lol

[@AnthonyRubeoOutdoors]

#hatcherywildcoexist learn more at www.hatchery-Wild-Coexist.com

[@hookedonbassncats]

Talk about click bait title. I thought I was about to watch a video of a world record brook trout being caught.

[@newflyfisher]

No click bait, it story of this river and where world record was caught. Hopefully someday we will have a new record on-camera to show you somewhere!

[@hookedonbassncats]

@@newflyfisher should of said in the title "story of the Brooke trout record". Just my opinion. Still a cool video.

[@patricknoveski6409]

Bigfoot area🤣. Watch for print in the sand.

[@deschutesmaple4520]

Tear down the dams, like they did on the Elwah River in WA state.

[@loucifer323]

The largest brook trout ever caught was a 17lb or 18lb but it was caught by a angler who was fishing in a tournament for another species and he released it but he took a picture before he released it but they didn't weigh it but it size they guessed 17 or 18lbs at minimum

[@newflyfisher]

You're absolutely right, that was a giant Brook Trout which would have had the record. Nice that the angler let it go!

[@brandensoutdoorb-channel8084]

Flooded oat

[@kelvinplaysyt1077]

trasssshhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@johnbuchanan9220]

Beautiful trout. But I still say New Brunswick is canadas best kept secret. You know every story I see where dams are made they killed world class fisheries. The old footage is awesome.

[@MariuszPierog]

! Pikes

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

Wonder if people realize salmon and steelhead aren’t native to the Great Lakes and probably compete with brook trout for forage. And of course damns always ruin fishing

[@newflyfisher]

Some do not know that, thanks for pointing it out

[@nickking1510]

@@newflyfisher neither are smelt ,brown trout ,

[@backyardbassin7213]

100th comment

[@denisSwe]

if i could i would blow up every dam there is

[@ajglover719]

You would kill hundreds of thousands of humans to save fish

[@derekcollins1972]

@@ajglover719 Were over populated anyway.

[@klantifashakur9894]

I know a place in California that kicks out 7 pound football shaped brookies fat off fresh water shrimp. If I get 69 likes I will share the information with everyone that comments. Maybe lol

[@crustybear]

Is the click baiting title really necessary?

[@montana12810]

IN MY DREAMS ---I HAVE FISHED (THE RABBIT ) AGAIN AND AGAIN! MY COCAINE

[@noemendez7244]

It sucks that the Dames had to be put in😠

[@thatsme7805]

Why not just use worms, they go nuts over them

[@maineoutdoorsman677]

So all the poor local people that caught bigger fish don’t matter a rich doctor an know it’s a record I think if u can’t produce it it’s not real fuck rich made up records.

[@uramag7]

i say all the dams should have to come out asap.. if you lose power or a job ... who cares.

[@uramag7]

Nick Harrell really?? so you don't care about fish?? you are happy as long as we're creating jobs regardless of its impact on the environment?.. bet you can't wait to vote for trump in 2020 huh.

[@68wayupintheskyftw61]

meze maccalman lol you got me backwards. these dams do very little in damaging the populations of fish its not the dams that have made the fish small like this would have you believe. the reason the fish are small is because the fishing pressure. there used to be huge fish all over the east coast and South but no one wants to put back there trophy so they rarely get above a certain size before being caught. if you go to the west coast the fishing culture is much different and there are larger fish. if anything these dams should increase there size by creating milder climates with more food. also what would the power generated by those dams be replaced with? only real option is Cole which is much more destructive over all. finally I'll be voting bernie, tulsi, or tunder depending on who runs.

[@uramag7]

the columbia river has 7 dams or something like that.. all fish moving past the dams have to been trucked across each one in shipping containers .. often times poor returns are the result of the fish not living through this... all the dams that have been removed in washington so far have had an almost instant rebound in fish health and numbers... replace them with wind mills... 1 of the windmills in eastern washington will power an average of 500 houses.

[@thomasfenaroli]

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[@aaronwbakeman]

you kept that 19 inch brook trout? shame on you guys!

[@Wildernessnorth]

Hi Aaron, thanks for your comment. I can guarantee this fish was released after it was placed in the live well to be tagged. I should have shown the release in hindsight. Thanks again.. Mark Melnyk

[@iowatroutfishing802]

My buddy just kept a few sizable Brooks. It all depends. We were fishing a creek never gets fished so it's okay to harvest them. I smell a soyboy

[@MrJohnnyorange]

Clickbait

[@lasselaitinen4161]

Great video. I just can't accept the world record. Here in Finland fishermen have caught dozens of brown trouts larger than that on this century only - not mention 90's or 80's. Our current record is 10,15kg (year 2001) and here's an example of 8,7kg trout from couple years ago (in Finnish unfortunatelly): www.ess.fi/uutiset/paijathame/art2404001