Michael Mitchell hooked into his record rainbow trout from Loch Earn, located in Perthshire, Great Britain (UK). With 38 inches in total length and a girth of 26 inches and weight over 34 pounds.
Trout raibow is a fish native to the west coast of North America from southern Alaska to Durango, Mexico and inland as far as central Alberta in Canada and Idaho and Nevada in the U.S. It has been extensively introduced across the lower Canadian provinces and throughout the area of the Great Lakes to the Atlantic coast, south in the Appalachians to northern Georgia and Alabama, east in the southern U.S. to western Texas and sporadically in the central U.S. as well as above the Great Lakes on the Atlantic coast. It has been transplanted to New Zealand, Australia, South America, Africa, Japan, southern Asia, Europe and Hawaii. An Asian species known as the Kamchatka trout is believed to be a form of the rainbow trout. It is native to the Amur River in the eastern part of Russia as well as Kamchatka.
| DISTRIBUTION: | North America Europe |
| MAX SIZE: | 55 lb / 25 kg |
| MAX LENGHT: | 40 inch / 100 cm |
| MAX AGE: | 15 years (?) |
| ENVIRONMENT: | Freshwater |