Calvin Johnston of Olathe, Kansas, set the mark pretty high for his first Arkansas trout-fishing trip. On Friday, February 27, Johnston landed a brown trout weighing 38 lbs. 7 oz. on the White River. (Photo courtesy of Arkansas Game and Fish Commission)
By Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
COTTER, Ark. – Arkansas’s trout tailwaters are famous for incredible scenery, fast action and some of the biggest brown trout in the world – just ask Kansas angler Calvin Johnston.
Johnston, a resident of Olathe, Kansas, was enjoying his first trout-fishing trip to The Natural State Friday, February 27, when he hooked into a fish that will have people up and down the White River talking for years.
“I’m a bass angler,” Johnston said. “But we have a few ponds in Kansas that are stocked with some small rainbow trout. I’ve gone to one of them a couple of times and maybe caught five or six rainbows, but this was my...