While most of us were eating hamburgers and watching fireworks over July 4th weekend, Benjamin Ferguson and his buddy, Shawn Widrick, were fishing for brook trout deep in the Adirondack backcountry.

Recently on Facebook, there were pictures and an article about a giant brook trout that was caught in the Adirondacks on July 5. It was 22 inches long and beat the previous six-pound record by three ...

Benjamin Ferguson from Lowville, New York, and his fishing pal Shawn Widrick of Croghan, New York, are old hands at wilderness camping, canoeing and fishing in the wilds of the Adirondacks, located in ...