Syracuse.com - Angler tells his tale of his state record brook trout and how a DEC staffer ate its meat

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Beauchamp gave the fish to the DEC and a trophy mount with his name on it will hang in the DEC's Ray Brook office.

Rick Beauchamp and his state-record brookie.DEC 

I interviewed Rick Beauchamp about his state record-setting brook trout Monday and wrote a story that appeared on this blog the same day.

Beauchamp, of Mayfield, N.Y., landed the 22 1/2 inch, 6.03 pound brookie May 15 on Silver Lake in Hamilton County.

I taped a followup interview with Beauchamp telling about his accomplishment and the fact that he gave the fish to the state Department of Environmental Conservation office in Ray Brook, where it will be mounted and hung on the wall.

There was one fact, though, that wasn't in the original story that came out in Beauchamp's taped statement. After he gave the DEC office his fish, one of the staffers there took the meat home and ate it for dinner.

Granted, only the fish's skin is required to make a trophy mount, but I still found it brook trout. The alternative would have been, of course, to just dispose of it.

Listen to Beauchamp's story.

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View the full article on The Syracuse Outdoors Blog