BOISE, Idaho — An 8-year-old broke a world fishing record after she caught a 36.5-inch rainbow trout.

Sophie Egizi set a new catch-and-release Gerrard rainbow trout record at Lake Pend Oreille.

The lake has a reputation for being home to a lot of trophy trout. It still holds the certified weight record Gerrard rainbow of 37 pounds in 1947.

Gerrard rainbow trout in Idaho are unique to the Clark Fork River drainage, and have long been handled as a separate trout record species because of their notoriously huge sizes.

 

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