California man spends 30 minutes reeling in monster-sized trout: 'Quite a shock'

California man spends 30 minutes reeling in monster-sized trout: 'Quite a shock'

SHAVER LAKE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Reeling in a potential record-setting fish can be rewarding, as long as you have the patience, one California man recently discovered. An average brown trout typically weighs between 1 to 5 pounds. However, on Friday, Steve Jones of Clovis made an impressive catch on Shaver Lake: a trophy German brown trout weighing 24.4 pounds. "It was, it was quite an ordeal, quite a shock," Jones said of his catch, which may …

Huge Brown Trout Caught on Light Line Just Misses the 38-Year Old California State Record

Steve Jones, 72, regularly fishes Shaver Lake northeast of Fresno in Central California. He started fishing the lake as a youngster with his father, and he knows it well after all these years. On Friday he was trolling on the lake alone in his 21-foot fiberglass boat. Using a pair of downriggers, he was pulling lures and targeting kokanee in roughly 90 feet of water. He’d already caught four of his five-fish kokanee limit when one of his light-a…