A Georgia woman set an Idaho fishing record with an “exceptionally rare” catch that broke the previous, nearly decade-old record.
Idaho Department of Fish and Game officials said in a news release Wednesday that Caroline Langdale set the record for catch-and-release brown trout while fishing on the South Fork Snake River on May 30.
Langdale said she was fly fishing with South Fork Lodge guide Ed Emory on a multiday trip when she landed her catch. According to the news release, Langdale was using a rubber legs fly at a hole in the river, which is known as a trophy trout fishery, in the hopes of enticing fish…