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Tennessee Kid's Giant Cutthroat Trout Sets New State Record
Story by Steven Hill • 1h ago

The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency released 2,550 Cutthroat Trout into the upper portion of Fort Patrick Henry Reservoir on the Holston River below Boone Dam in 2021.
The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency released 2,550 Cutthroat Trout into the upper portion of Fort Patrick Henry Reservoir on the Holston River below Boone Dam in 2021.
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ATennessee 10-year-old didn’t just set a new state record for cutthroat trout, he blew the old one out of the water with a 4-pound, 12-ounce fish that topped the standing mark by more than two pounds.

Palmer Tipton reeled in his trophy catch from the tailwaters of the Boone Dam, according to a July 27 Facebook post from the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency (TWRA). Boone Dam is located on the South Fork of the Holston River, which is where the prior state record, weighing 2 pounds, 8 ounces, was set by Daniel Scalf in October 2022.

That spot on the upper portion of the Fort Patrick Henry Reservoir is also where the department released 2,550 cutthroat trout in 2021 as part of a management plan to establish a put-and-take and put-and-grow trout fishery in two tailwaters along the Holston. Cutthroats were stocked in Tennessee tailwaters in the 1950s through the early 1960s, but the species never thrived due to poor water quality prior to the Clean Water Act.

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The new stocking project is a partnership between the TWRA and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, which provides fine-spotted cutthroat trout strain eggs that are hatched and raised at the Dale Hollow National Fish Hatchery in Celina, Tennessee. In 2021 cutthroats were stocked in the Tims Ford Tailwater of the Elk River, the Appalachia Tailwater of the Hiawassee River, and the Boone and Fort Patrick Henry tailwaters on the Holston.

ghaynes1 Loc: Strawberry Plains, TN

Boone Dam is 80 miles north of me. I've been told it's a great area to trout fish. Part of the Holston River is very close to me but all the rivers here flow into each other and then into the Tennessee River.

Fredfish Loc: Prospect CT.

Congratulations Palmer! Wow a 10 yr old record holder. I'll bet a bunch of geezers are jealous of that young man. Thanks for the report Leo.

PLS Loc: Kingsport, TN

Guan, if you should get the urge to go in a couple months to that part of Patrick Henry Lake or Boone Lake, either one, I should be finished with my medical restrictions at that time and would be glad to show you around. I normally bass fish, but will trout fish when someone wants to go.

PLS Loc: Kingsport, TN

Forgot to mention, that area is about 15 minutes from my house and Daniel Scalf, former record holder, is a friend we could talk into giving us pointers or maybe go with us.