Trout Releases Big Grouper

KEY WEST, Fla. – Sure, it’s likely baseball star Mike Trout has some groupies. Now he has a grouper. A huge one.

Trout, the center fielder for the Los Angeles Angels and the 2012 American League Rookie of the Year, caught and released a huge goliath grouper while fishing off Key West this month.

Trout, an avid angler, was vacationing in the Florida Keys with his family and booked a trip on the Coolwater, skippered by Capt. Bill Wallace.

"After I picked him and his party up at the Casa Marina, I asked what they wanted to fish for," Wallace said. "They said they wanted something really big, so I decided to target goliath grouper."

Wallace ran the 32-foot...