The Missouri Department of Conservation reports Paul Crews of Neosho has become the most recent record-breaking angler in Missouri when he hooked a brown trout on Lake Taneycomo using a rod and reel.
The new “pole and line” record brown trout caught by Crews on Feb. 23rd weighed 34 pounds, 10 ounces. The new record beats the previous state record by 6 pounds and 2 ounces. Crews was fishing with 4-pound test line and a sculpin colored marabou jig.
MDC staff verified Crews’ record-weight fish using a certified scale at Shepherd of the Hills Fish Hatchery.