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Here's where you check your trivia skills
on record fish caught in Idaho |
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November 5, 2014 |
Ready for your Idaho Record Fish Trivia
Extravaganza Contest?
Information on Idaho's record fish catches is
available on the Idaho Fish and Game website.
You now get a chance to see how well you fare on
a few skill-testing questions from Idaho's
record book:
Q-1: Have any
record fish been taken in Boundary County?
A: Yes.
Idaho's record burbot, a 14-pounder, was taken
out of the Kootenai River in 1954.
Other nearby waters have also yielded a few
record setting fish. The current Idaho record
Dolly Varden, Kamloops, and Lake Whitefish were
taken from Lake Pend Orielle, and the current
record holders for Kokanee and Mackinaw came
from Priest Lake.
Q-2: Has a 20
pound rainbow trout ever been caught in Idaho?
A: Yes, by
Michelle Larsen-Williams. She caught Idaho's
record rainbow trout in the Snake River in 2009,
fishing with a worm. That record rainbow was
over 34 inches long--just short of a yard long.
Q-3:
What is the oldest, longest-standing record in
the book that still stands and hasn't been
surpassed?
A:
The oldest
record in the book that still stands is the
record 675 pound sturgeon caught in the Snake
River on a set line way back in 1908, over a
hundred years ago. The fisherman who captured
that fish is unknown. The record still stands.
And as we all know around here in Boundary
County, sturgeon can no longer be legally
harvested, going back many years.
Q-4:
So what is the oldest, most long-standing record
for a fish that CAN
be legally harvested, and that still has active
fishing seasons?
A:
So far, no one in Idaho has beat the 37 pound
Kamloops caught in Pend Orielle by Wes Hamlet 67
years ago, back in 1947.
Q-5:
What is Idaho's newest, most recent record fish?
A:
That would be just 18 days ago, when Ethan
Crawford of Moscow hauled in a 9 pound, 6 ounce,
nearly 31 inch ocean-run Coho from the
Clearwater River (using a Vibrax spinner) just
last month on October 18.
He caught that record Coho the day after Idaho's
first ever Coho season opened. It happens that
Mr. Crawford is a fisheries biologist for the
Washington Department of Fish and Game.
Idaho Fish and Game officials were not surprised
to see a new Coho record set, since this was the
first season for Coho, coming after the species
was re-established in the Clearwater after many
years work by the Nez Perce tribe, the
Department of Fish and Game, and others. And
after Fish and Game officials counted more than
15,000 adult Coho returning to the Clearwater
this year--one factor leading to the
establishment of the first ever Coho season.
And, speaking of Mr. Crawford's record 9 pound,
6 ounce bruiser of a Coho, Joe DuPont, regional
fisheries manager for the Idaho Department of
Fish and Game, had this to say: “I can tell you
that there are many more out there that are even
bigger.”
If you're thinking you might want to try to land
one of those big Coho, the season runs through
November 16.
Idaho's Record Fish register is available
online. You can look over all the specs on all
of Idaho's trophy record fish at this web
address:
http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/public/fish/?getPage=82
Look it over, and maybe you can put together
some of your own Idaho Record Fish Trivia
Extravaganza.
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