Angler breaks state record with 30-inch rainbow trout
Mike Mott thought he caught his line on a log when he was fishing last month at the Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Nevada.
Instead, the Elko angler ended up breaking the state's 39-year-old record for the largest rainbow trout ever caught in Nevada.
State wildlife officials have confirmed the 30-inch-long whopper caught on Feb. 10 weighed 16 pounds, 8 ounces. That is 4 ounces more than the old record set at Lake Mohave in 1971.
Mott decided to eat the fish instead of mount it, but is making replicas and has granted the state's request to display their own copies in Reno and Elko.
