A potential world-record rainbow trout was caught earlier this month in Saskatchewan, Canada, and a Central Oregon fishing guide is planning to team up with the lucky anglers.

Adam Konrad of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, caught and landed a 43.6-pound rainbow trout out of Lake Diefenbaker in southern Saskatchewan on June 5, according to Rick Arnold of Bend, who runs the Web site www.trophytroutguide.com.

If confirmed by the International Game Fish Association (IGFA), the catch would break the old rainbow trout record: a 42-pound, 2-ounce steelhead caught on Alaska’s Bell Island in 1970. (A steelhead is actually an ocean-going rainbow trout).

Arnold, a bull trout fishing guide on Central Oregon’s Lake Billy Chinook, said he had made plans to fish with Konrad, and his twin brother, Sean Konrad, before Adam caught the potential record trout. The brothers contacted Arnold through his Web site, where photo evidence of the giant trout was first publicized.

”They are big trout junkies,” Arnold said of the Canadian anglers. ”We’re going to try and help them promote it.”

The rainbow trout measured 38?223-179? inches long, with a girth of 34 inches, according to www.trophytroutguide .com.

”It is an ugly one and it is fat,” Adam Konrad told the Saskatoon StarPhoenix newspaper. ”With a 34-inch girth, that’s bigger than a human, almost.”

Konrad caught the fish from shore using an orange, 4-inch Mepps Syclops Spoon, according to ESPNoutdoors .com. He was using 6-pound line while he and Sean were trying for the IGFA’s 6-pound record, according to Arnold. He ended up with possibly the all-tackle record for rainbow trout.

The fish was weighed on a certified scale and the IGFA application is in process, according to Arnold.

Arnold said he plans to make the trip to Saskatchewan in July to fish with the Konrad brothers and film footage for a planned DVD about the brothers and their record catch.

When he’s not guiding, Arnold serves as an agent for Rick’s Trophy Mounts, a company in California that makes trophy fish mounts.

”We’re flying up and fishing with them in July, and I’m bringing that trout back to mold it,” Arnold said.

Arnold said the Konrad brothers, 26, already own two line-class IGFA records and have landed several rainbows of 30 pounds or more.

Adam holds the rainbow trout 12-pound line-class record of 33 pounds, 6 ounces, and Sean has the 8-pound line-class record of 34> pounds for rainbow trout. Both record catches were taken at Lake Diefenbaker.

But the Konrads aren’t sharing their exact methods just yet.

”They’ve got a secret on the lake,” Arnold said, ”and they won’t tell anybody about it.”