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Rainbow Trout State Record

Rainbow Trout State Record
Mark Reed of Bridge Creek holds the new state record rainbow trout caught from Lake Watonga

Originally Posted by NewsOK

Mark Reed certainly wasn’t expecting to break a nearly 50-year-old state record when he decided to go trout fishing last Sunday at Lake Watonga.

“Never in my wildest dreams I thought I would catch a fish that big,” Reed said of the 10-pound, 10-ounce rainbow trout that he hooked his favorite trout lure, a copper and red-headed Super Duper. “That’s the last thing you are thinking about.”

Reed’s rainbow trout is the new state record, breaking the old record of 10 pounds, 4 ounces set in 1966 on the...

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