We thought you might like to see what a really big brownt trout looks like!

Austrian fly fisherman Hans-Peter Schaar, of Flattach, landed a brown trout, (Salmo, trutta) while fishing Austria 's Obervellach Moll River weighing 16.5 kg (36 lb 6 oz). The July 2 catch took him an hour to land using 10 kg (20 lb) tippet. The current record is 28 lb 8 oz caught in 2005 on the Rio Grande Tierra del Fuego Argentina.

You can this and other Hot Catches on the International Game Fish Association (IGFA) website.

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