They sure know how to catch big fish, can't take that away from them. Me personally will never recognize 1 of their rainbows as a true world record as they are trypliod (sp) fish. They are genetically altered to be sterile and don't even go through the motions of spawning. They just eat 12 months outta the year which a true rainbow would not.
actually, even if they are sterile it still takes years to get them that big, let alone catch them, because stocked sterile fish will eat almost anything you throw at them, so for it to survive that long it had to have been extremely lucky or incredibly smart. i've personally never seen a rainbow that size, i caught a glimpse of one half that size while fishing the Lochsaw river (however you spell that), and it would follow our flies along the top of the water, just examining them, never got a hit. trout that big have to be special.