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 25 pounds and 2oz!!!!!!!!! Caught by Sean Konrad on March 27th, 2010. Now, that's a monster.

Check out our new ESPN Outdoors and Field and Stream articles.

The 36th week of 2009 will forever be known as "Trout Week" in North America.

On Sept. 5, Canadian angler Sean Konrad obliterated the IGFA all-tackle world rainbow record with a 48-pound rainbow out of Saskatchewan's Lake Diefenbaker, eclipsing a 2-year-old record held by his twin brother.

Four days later, retired construction manager Tom Healy eclipsed the world German brown mark with a 41-pound, 7-ounce monster on Michigan's Manistee River.

Two trout, 89 pounds, less than a week apart. Here are their stories:

The rainbow warriorsEven looking at the photos, it takes some suspension of disbelief to wrap your mind around a 48-pound rainbow trout. The dimensions seem freakish and otherwordly -- 42 inches long with a 32-inch girth -- and the tiny head looks like a science experiment gone wrong attached to the basketball-round rotundity of the belly.

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“Do we compete with each other? Yes, we’re human. But, it’s a healthy competition and it keeps us on our toes.”

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