Bull Trout: 32 pounds The world record bull trout. IGFA. The world all-tackle record is held by N. Higgins, with a 32-pound fish caught Oct. 27, 1949 in Idaho’s Lake Pend Oreille. That fish was 40.50 ...

The species is in trouble throughout most of its range, but the Pend Oreille system has one of the West’s largest bull trout populations left – about 10,000 of the federally protected fish ...

The current Oregon record for a bull trout is 23 pounds, 2 ounces, caught in 1989 from Lake Billy Chinook. The world record is 32 pounds caught in 1949 from Lake Pend Oreille in Idaho.

By KTVZ news sources Click here for updates on this story CULVER, Oregon (KTVZ) — Last Saturday, Ryan Mejaski of Bend and Joe Wilhite were fishing for kokanee on the Deschutes arm of Lake Billy ...

Although the Salish Indians historically knew the creek as “the place of small bull trout,” the big fish haven’t had much presence in Rattlesnake Creek for decades since a small dam blocked ...

In 1993, a survey found a little over 90 bull trout redds in Big Salmon Lake. In both 2023 and 2024, the surveys found less than 30.

Bull trout are dwindling in Montana as their home-waters warm, and invasive fish devour them. Scooping up threatened fish and moving them higher up the mountain could backfire.

Here are the changes to bull trout regulations: Big Salmon Creek: Closed to all angling within a 300-yard radius around the inlet (where the creek enters the lake) of Big Salmon Lake.