";s:4:"text";s:2604:" The current state record (9 pounds, 9 ounces) was caught on the White in October, 1985. WORLD RECORD GERMAN BROWN TROUT. The trout, caught by fishing guide Bill Babler, weighed 40 pounds, 6 ounces, was 41.25 inches long and had a girth of 28 inches. The spot is now called Barnett Access, and that's a picture of it below as seen from the highway 110 bridge. The plastic fish ain't bad either.The 40-4 behemoth blew away the previous all-tackle record of 38-9, which was caught by Mike "Huey" Manley of North Little Rock four years earlier. While the White produced North American-record brown trout in 1972 (31.5 pounds) and again in 1977 (33.5 pounds), another development was being noted.
The specimen is exceptionally lifelike and looks quite natural. That mark was 40 pounds, 4 ounces. Browns were stocked early in the AG&FC stocking program but were discontinued in the 1960s and 1970s. That's So here's the story in a nutshell. The record before that was also a trout from Arkansas weighing 38-9#. Most notable are the Prior to 1950, Arkansas trout fishing was basically limited to the state's only major cold-water stream, the With the completion of Norfork Dam on the North Fork of the Faced with the devastation of significant stretches of habitat for warm-water fish species, the AG&FC decided to introduce trout into the combined 97 miles of oxygen-rich, cold-water races below the dams. The Manistee river is a Tributary of Lake Michigan, and year after year provides fisherman great opportunities.
Catches of 5-to-7-pound rainbows were common and the state In the past two decades, increased fishing pressure on the White and North Fork has mostly limited catches of trophy rainbows to catch-and-release areas (though overall catch rates remain among the nation's highest).That is true in part because natural reproduction of rainbows in Arkansas streams accounts for less than one percent of the state's annual rainbow population.Such is not the case, however, with brown trout. When it comes to fish, Arkansas is most famous beyond its borders for the outstanding trout fisheries that have been developed over the last five decades by the AG&FC with help from two federal trout hatcheries. Let's get right to it, then. The Norfork River is only 5 river miles of trout water but it is a gem in our state. The Norfork also offers a chance to catch four species of trout with the rainbow being the most common in the river.