Aaron Goettsche, of Stansbury Park, Utah, was fishing solo on McCall’s Payette Lake on June 19 when he reeled in a lake trout ...

Utah angler Aaron Goetsche caught a 42-inch lake trout from Idaho's Payette Lake that's been certified as a new length record ...

Aaron Goettsche of Stansburry Park caught a whopping 42-inch lake trout, which topped the previous record set in 2018.

Panelists participated in Deer Lodge Wednesday in a discussion about the dramatic decline in brown trout numbers in the upper Clark Fork River and identified possible influences driving the plummet.