Now the  Monsters have pulled many trout out of this stretch of the Kennebec River right in Solon Maine. We make a trip there every year. There’s a spot known as “rainbow pool” to the locals. Two years ago in fact Monster Kristen hooked into a rainbow right there that took air, so she identified it,  then it proceeded to vaporize her tippet. When she came down she was a bit shaken when she told us that it was the biggest rainbow she had seen. But Anders Olafson gets the free beers tonight for just setting the new Maine State record for a rainbow–8.42 lbs, and caught October 31st right there on the Kennebec in Solon. That is one hog of a rainbow. Cheers!

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Rainbow trout sets record

By Doug Harlow
 

SOLON — A Starks man caught a record-setting rainbow trout in Somerset County — and that’s no fish tale.
Anders Olafson caught the fish on Oct. 31 on the Kennebec River in Solon, according to Deborah Turcotte, spokeswoman from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
“It’s a state record — it’s a record for weight,” Turcotte said Friday.
The fish was weighed 8.42 pounds and was weighed on a certified scale at the Solon Superette on U.S. Route 201, Turcotte said. The previous state record was caught by Michael Thebarge of Skowhegan on Lake George on Feb. 6, 2009. It weighed 7 pounds.
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and Harry Vanderweide, editor of the Maine Sportsman newspaper, jointly announce new records. The publication has maintained the state record book for more than 30 years.

Contributed photo RECORD TROUT: Anders Olafson of Starks caught a record 8.42-pound rainbow trout Oct. 3 while fishing on the Kennebec River in Solon. The fish is the heaviest trout caught in Maine, according to a news release from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and Harry Vanderweide, editor of the Maine Sportsman newspaper. The paper has maintained the state record book for more than 30 years, according to the release.