RECORD TROUT

BRANSON, Mo. - The one that got away came back, and it's a doozy.

Marty Babusa first spotted the 23-pound, 4-ounce brown trout a couple of years ago, but twice it escaped from his line.

Babusa landed the same fish last Friday, blowing the state's record for the largest brown trout out of the water. The previous mark, set at Montauk State Park in August, was 16 pounds, 12 ounces.

Babusa, 40, spends most of his time playing the banjo with a Dixieland band in this south-central Missouri town near the Arkansas border.

He said he fishes nearly every day this time of year because business is slow and the trout fishing at Lake Taneycomo is hot.

"I think there's more fish that big in the same area," he said. "Maybe even bigger."