Picture of the Day: Unbelievable Brown Trout

Dan Kupiac shows off a slab-of-a-lifetime from New York’s Salmon River. photo by Dave Barber

Last Saturday, Dan Kupiac of Farmington, Connecticut, was fishing the Salmon River with guide Dave Barber when something special happened. Dan was high-sticking a nymph through the same slot for 10 minutes, convinced that there was a big fish there. He was right, but even he had never imagined the fish would be so big. In fact, it was his largest brown trout ever: 35 inches long and 20.5 pounds! Barber called it “the largest brown I’ve seen in years!”