Anglers land two world record trout
The 36th week of 2009 will forever be known as "Trout Week" in North America.
On Sept. 5, Canadian angler Sean Konrad obliterated the IGFA all-tackle world rainbow record with a 48-pound rainbow out of Saskatchewan's Lake Diefenbaker, eclipsing a 2-year-old record held by his twin brother.
Four days later, retired construction manager Tom Healy eclipsed the world German brown mark with a 41-pound, 7-ounce monster on Michigan's Manistee River.
Two trout, 89 pounds, less than a week apart. Here are their stories:

The rainbow warriors
Even looking at the photos, it takes some suspension of disbelief to wrap your mind around a 48-pound rainbow trout. The dimensions seem freakish and otherwordly -- 42 inches long with a 32-inch girth -- and the tiny head looks like a science experiment gone wrong attached to the basketball-round rotundity of the belly.
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    • "raised in a pen, genetically manipulated to grow huge, and regularly fed."Said by an unnamed website.
    ...really? These fish were released 9 years ago. In no way is that pen raised and fed regulary. A fish is released 9 years ago at a few pounds and lives in the wild for all that time and it's made to sound as if we were handed the fish right from it's pen. More to come...