Cutline: Has the IGFA world record for lake trout been broken? Maybe, if the weight of a record book buster from Colorado’s Blue Mesa Reservoir near Gunnison gets certified. So much so that his son is an area guide and Enloe bought a Tracker Pro V 175, complete with a Mercury 115 and Lowrance electronics front and back, to figure out how to catch these big lakers. Since moving back to Colorado, Enloe has developed a passion for bowhunting elk with his son, fly fishing on the Lake Fork of the Gunnison, and chasing the big lake trout that swim in the clear depths of Blue Mesa. There was still ice on the lake from winter, just three days earlier.” “It was opening day, with the ice finally coming off. “It was sunny and cold, about 28 degrees when we got on the water last Friday,” said Enloe of the outing. When it settled in, the pair was left speechless, looking at a number of more than 73-pounds. scale bottomed out, the father-son team of anglers found Scott’s digital scale in the boat, which goes up to 100-pounds. When the weight registered on the device, it simply read “FULL.”

While he knew this laker was huge from start to finish-it also measured out at 47-inches long and 37-inches in girth-Enloe’s first real inkling of what had been caught came when he and his son Hunter tried to weigh the fish on his 26-year old son’s digital scales. Amazingly, that mark that is more than one pound above the existing International Game Fish Association world record for the char species native to northern North America, along with some western and northeastern U.S. On opening day of the season at Blue Mesa following ice off, he did more than that, catching a massive lake trout ( Salvelinus namaycush) that tips the digital scales to a staggering weight of 73.29-lbs.

When homebuilder Scott Enloe launched his boat onto the chilly waters of Colorado’s Blue Mesa Reservoir late last week, he was hoping to catch something big from its depths.

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