# @outdoor_life on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DJ_wJgBzPCe
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/30874484-outdoor-life-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-05-23T12:30:18.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Outdoor Life (@outdoor_life) — https://gondola.cc/outdoor_life

## Caption

Steve Jones, 72, regularly fishes Shaver Lake northeast of Fresno in Central California.⁠
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On a recent trip, Jones hooked a massive 37.5-inch brown trout that weighed 24.48 pounds on 6-pound test. With that weight, Jones’ fish easily tops Shaver’s unofficial lake record: an 18-pound brown trout caught there in the 1980s. The state record brown, by comparison, weighed 26 pounds 8 ounces, and it was caught in 1987 from upper Twin Lakes. The IGFA all-tackle world record brown is a massive 44-plus-pound trout from New Zealand. However, the IGFA 6-pound line class record for the species is considerably smaller at 28.5 pounds. (That fish was caught from New York’s Niagara River in 1996.) This puts Jones’ 24.5-pound California brown near the top of the IGFA’s coveted 6-pound test category.⁠
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#fishing #trout #fishingseason #fishingtrip #troutfishing #California #browntrout #outdoors #conservation #outdoorlife⁠
📷: Steve Jones⁠
Story by: Bob McNally

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conservation, browntrout, trout, outdoors, fishing, california, troutfishing, fishingseason, outdoorlife, fishingtrip

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