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Jason Brooks, who has been camping and boating at Riverview RV Park & Marina in Vermilion, Ohio since before 2002, will likely capture a coveted spot in the Ohio state record fish book. On Friday June 25th around 11:00 a.m. Jason Brooks and Joe Boewe, in their 22-foot Grady White boat, fishing 15 miles from Lorain's Avon Point reeled in a massive steel-head trout.
The fish weighed 21 pounds, 3 ounces and measured 38 inches long. The current recognized Ohio state record for a steel-head trout was caught by Mike Shane way back in October of 1996. That fish weighed in at 20.97 pounds and measured 36 1/2 inches.
"The fish jumped three times and power-dived in much the same fashion as a walleye", Jason reported. When the fish was hung on a 20-pound fisherman's scale the tool broke as the hook bottomed out.
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