![]() Cook ensured that his fish was weighed and meticulously examined by fishery experts, whose findings were indisputable. However, I find it more plausible to accept that it was a pure Salvelinus fontinalis, as the Nipigon is full of big brook trout and hybrids are very rare. At 14 ½ pounds, sceptics have suggested it was too big to be a pure brook trout, but rather some sort of hybrid. Much has been written about this fabulous specimen, but here’s my two cents worth. Today, the river is very much different from what it was a century ago, but trophy brook trout still inhabit this beautiful, austere place. Cook’s massive trout was hooked, fought and landed on the upper Nipigon River at Rabbit (Mac Donald’s) Rapids. I now live within two hours of the river and consider myself blessed to be able to regularly enjoy its treasures, fishing over water that was once home to the record fish and possibly its counterpart today.ĭr. Cook and his party fished the Nipigon and made history. I know the record brook trout story all too well, growing up chasing brook trout in Southern Ontario while dreaming of the Nipigon and its trophies, often wondering what it must have been like on the river that week in July 1915 when Dr. ![]() The fish, that date, and the angler are the stuff that dreams and obsession are forged from. Cook caught the world record brook trout, in Ontario’s Nipigon River, one of the most notable of all freshwater fishing records. July 21 st , 2015 will mark a century since Dr. Excerpt is from Randy Beamish’s article ‘Nipigon River Brook Trout’ published in The New Fly Fisher Magazine.
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