Not even close!

I'm pretty sure David White's saltwater steelhead is still the official hook and line world record anadromous steelhead, though they do lump in rainbow trooots and steelhead together in the record book, so some middle 40's trout from Idaho is the world record I believe.

Fish on...

Todd

P.S. I've caught mid-20's fish as big as that 44 pounder...he must have been made of brass and lead.

44lbs my [Bleeeeep!].... a 25lb steelhead is nice enough why make it into a larger one?

Here is a 34lb steelhead. HUGEEEEEEEE

dont know if Steelhead in Slovenia are the same as the ones we have here... should be tho... but heres a 66 pounder caught there..

thats a salmon

http://mrriver.com/record_fish_pictures.html

its in the trout section... 2nd one down...

That looks like a brown trout.

Fish on...

Todd

I've never wanted to be one to trash on peoples estimates but I really have to agree. That is really rediculous.

Taimen

I was aware of David White's oddity but I was referring to an "in-river" sport caught fish.

Too bad a fish has to die to get into the record books. I will say that it's hard to believe some of these C&Red records even if they are somehow confirmed.

I guess I just enjoy the guessing game and sometimes I just don't want to know. It seems to make for good conversation anyway.

Not the right shape to be a Taimen...and I doubt there are any taimen in Slovenia, anyway...taimen have very skinny back ends, and live in Mongolia and Siberia, which are a long way from Slovenia

Fish on...

Todd

It's a Huchen aka Danube Salmon

Danube Salmon

Taimen live on the other side of the continent in Siberia. That fish was caught in Slovania. It's a Huchen.

Done deal.

Correct, as soon as I seen it it was a taimen. It's an oversized dolly if I remember correctly, well not literally a dolly but a char native to Mongolia and Russia. It's definitely on my list. 2/5 oz rvrfshr with 30 lb braid.

I retract my statement, todd proved me wrong before I even posted.

Amazingly beautiful river. Looked like a oversized bull trout with a catfish mouth. The angler apparently had a difficult time parting ways with his trophy.

On first seening the "Slovenia steelhead" my immediate thought was a huchen - in the few steelhead I have handled can not recall ever seeing one with out spots on its tail.

The huchen is found in the Daunbe drainage and is a closely related species to the Siberian taimen - some even think the two are just sub-species of the same fish. Both can get very large (over 100 pounds) though the largest taimen have exceeded 200 pounds.

tight lines
curt

learn something new every day...

i should have realized something was up with that page anyways... one of the world record brook trout is actually a spawning Dolly...