Newfoundland Record Brook Trout?

I’ve had a couple of emails forwarded to me with an image that purports to show a “Tom Turnbull” of Labrador City, Newfoundland holding a very large speckled (brook) trout. The email suggests that Mr. Tom Turnbull recently caught the 17lb trout near “his cabin.”

Turns out that someone is probably playing a trick or pulling a hoax on Tom Turnbull, whoever he might be.

The photo actually shows Tim Matheson of Manitoba with the huge brook trout he caught on Barbe Lake, about 130 km from Sherridon, MB. Tim was not fly fishing though – he was trolling with a crankbait.

Full story (along with the photo that is being emailed, purporting to be Tom Turnbull) is here.