Burlington Free Press reported: Vermont’s lone world record fish will keep its top spot thanks to a sharp-eyed conservation officer in Canada. A northern Minnesota angler recently pleaded guilty in Fort Francis, Ontario, to possessing more than the daily limit of lake trout, which cost him the chance to register a 52-pound, 3-ounce lake trout that he caught Feb. 8 while ice fishing on Lac la Croix on the Canadian side of the Minnesota-Ontario border.
The fish would have easily eclipsed the existing world record lake trout taken with a tip-up, a 29-pound, 6-ounce fish that was caught in 1996 on Lake Willoughby by James Alexander Jr. of St. Johnsbury.
But earlier on Feb. 8, the Minnesota angler had his license checked by officers with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, who observed that he had already kept a small lake trout, which represented his legal limit of one on Lac la Croix. When one of the officers later read a newspaper account of the man’s hour-long battle with the giant trout, he recalled checking him earlier that day and contacted officers with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
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