Todd Young of Nazareth had quite a catch on May 6.
Fishing on Lake Erie for the first time, Young nabbed a 29-pound, 4-ounce lake trout that the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission officially certified as a state record fish for the species on Wednesday.
Young, who recently graduated from Clarion University, caught the fish on a Northern King spoon about three miles offshore from Harbor Creek less than 10 minutes into the trip he took with his father and two friends.
The record-breaking lake trout was more than 3 feet long, but state records are certified by weight. His fish outweighed the previous record 27-pound, 13-ounce lake trout caught by Tom Illar Jr. on Lake Erie in 1996.
According to a wire tag in the fish's snout, the fish was raised at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Allegheny National Fish Hatchery and stocked several years ago
from Michael Vo
Wow! Congrats Todd!
June 1, 2012 at 10:27am | Report Abuse
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