The record catch weighed eight pounds, nine ounces and was 26.25 inches long.
Before sunrise on that fateful October morning, Smiley felt a sudden impulse to go for a long, hard hike with his fishing gear to Waterdog Lake in the Uncompahgre National Forest near his home in Lake City. He started the four-mile trek a little before 6 a.m., got to the alpine lake about three hours later, after a climb of 2,400 feet, and wound up catching the biggest brook trout in Colorado history.
, setting that state’s catch-and-release record for the species. And, in 2003, he caught a lake trout at Blue Mesa Reservoir near Gunnison that broke the existing Colorado record. That one was eclipsed a few weeks later, though. “More than anything, I probably put in more time and effort, to the point of being of being extreme, than most people would be willing to,” said Smiley, whose brother Steve is the head men’s basketball coach at the University of Northern Colorado. “And there’s still luck involved. You can spend all the time in the world doing this stuff and there’s no guarantee that right fish is ever going to bite. But, the more opportunities you give yourself, you have a lot better chance of it happening.
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