Hockey has the Sedins, Henrik and Daniel, and tennis the Byran boys, Mike and Bob. As good as all four are in the world of sports, the identical twins from Sweden and America can’t match the back-to-back feats of a homegrown Saskatchewan pair, Sean and Adam Konrad.

Try two world records, one apiece.

Fishing on Lake Diefenbaker earlier this month, Sean reeled in a rainbow trout of dimensions once thought unimaginable, a 48-pound world record rainbow trout that’s now before the International Game Fish Association in Florida for verification as an all-tackle record for the species. It helps that the first witness to his catch, the man with the net, was the current IGFA record holder himself, twin brother Adam, who two years ago landed his 43-pound, 10-ounce world record rainbow trout with Sean’s help on the same waters.

Big? Rainbows typically run no heavier than 15 pounds. At their tastiest, the fish fit whole on a restaurant plate.

For the 29-year-old brothers raised in Saskatoon, the past three weeks have been a dreamlike replay of fishing exploits past, only flipped, this time with Sean drawing global attention from the likes of ESPN Sports and Field and Stream magazine.

“Sean is doing most the interviews now, and I said to him, hey, man, now you know how it feels,” says Adam.

Says Sean: “I’m asked, in all honesty, is Adam jealous? I don’t know how he could be. When Adam caught his fish, I was happy for him.”

Saturday night of Labour Day weekend was a much-anticipated get-together for the Konrad brothers. From their identical school days — electrical engineering at the U of S, automotive mechanics at Kelsey Institute — only careers and new families were important enough to separate the twins, Sean eventually moving to Alberta with his wife and baby daughter, an end to what had been four-day-a-week fishing expeditions. Hitting Diefenbaker by themselves, not guiding for American anglers as they do about five times a year, the brothers launched their boat on Sept. 5 with intentions of fishing the way they’ve most enjoyed it since boyhood: intense, strategic and, above all, patient, lines in the water for as long as it took.

Fishing their favourite bay by headlamp around midnight, back-trolling and drift-casting, Sean felt the bite, set his hook and began a fight that lasted at least 20 minutes.

“We use some monster nets on Diefenbaker,” says Adam. “I just didn’t understand why it was so difficult to get this one fish out of the net.” They had a dandy, but the rainbow’s initial weigh-in was the first hint that Adam’s record was in jeopardy. “Sean said he couldn’t get a weight. I said, no way, and he said, I swear, man, the scale just bottomed out. I said to myself, oh-oh.”

And then, and then …

The boys went back to fishing.

“No reason for some big fish to end a great night,” says Adam. Such is their obsession with angling, an addiction that once prompted Sean’s wife, Glenda, to compare the twins to the single-minded technical support staff at her work, the computer geeks. “Yeah, geeks,” says Adam. “Cool. That’s what we were, all right, fishing geeks,” a handle that the brothers have since applied to their website, fishinggeeks.net.