A 16-year-old fisherman netted two big bull trout final fall, breaking two separate size world information saved by the Worldwide Gamefish Affiliation (IGFA) within the course of. In response to lately launched IGFA information, Ryder Humphries landed the “junior all-tackle size world report” on November 2, 2025 and the traditional “all-tackle size world report” a couple of days afterward November 7.
Each of the fish measured roughly 25.5 inches or 70 centimeters in size. Logan Exton, IGFA’s Angler Recognition Coordinator, tells F&S that Humphries’ bull trout from November 2 went down because the all-tackle youth report, whereas his November 7 trout claimed the general all-tackle size report. As a result of the trout had been caught on standard lures, they’re acknowledged individually from the fly-fishing size report for the species—a 31.8 incher caught by Bo Nelson in Fernie, British Columbia in 2011.
Exton says Humphries was fishing a pink grub on a jig head when he landed the youth report on November 2. Then he hooked the general size report simply 5 days afterward a Krocodile Spoon in a rainbow-trout sample.
A Uncommon Native
Critically endangered all through a lot of the their North American vary because of improvement and warming waters, bull trout are adept predators that feed nearly completely on different fish as soon as they attain maturity. They develop massive and quick because of their fish-heavy weight loss program and voracious feeding patterns. The fish are likely to migrate to headwater streams to spawn within the fall earlier than transferring again into lakes throughout winter months.
The Bow River—the place Humphries caught and launched his record-breaking bull trout—is a scenic, glacier-fed river that flows by the guts of Banff Nationwide Park. It’s a premier fishing vacation spot extra well-known for its hard-fighting rainbows and trophy-sized browns than its native bull trout.
The largest bull trout within the IGFA report books weighed a whopping 32 kilos. Angler N. Higgins caught that fish in Idaho’s Lake Pend Orielle in 1949.
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