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Olancha angler catches record brown trout from Oregon lake
Jim Matthews ONS
10/16/02
BEND, Ore. -- Ron Lane of Olancha, a long-time member of the Brownbaggers, caught a 28-pound, five-ounce brown trout from Paulina Lake in Oregon on October 3rd to topple that state's record for brown trout. The fish beats the old record caught in 1993, also from Paulina, by nine ounces.
Lane was shallow-trolling a seven-inch A.C. Plug when he made the catch right at dusk on Thursday evening. The big trout took about 25 minutes to land.
"I told Allan [Cole] I had a picture of the fish with the A.C. Plug in it's mouth, but that he was going to have to pay dearly for it," joked Lane last week about the maker of the lure he used to catch the record fish.
The 64-year-old angler is well-known to long-time Eastern Sierra anglers, having landed a 22-pound, 12-ounce brown trout from Pleasant Valley Reservoir, and three trophy browns on the same day that weighed 13-8, 13-3 and 7-4, all which are mounted and on display in Culver's Sporting Goods in Bishop where Lane grew up.
Lane was one of the original members of the Brownbaggers, a club started by Allan Cole, who's only requirement for membership was that you land two brown trout over 10 pounds.
Lane said they didn't weigh the big brown officially for a couple of days because they didn't realize it was a state record. But once they heard it might topple the existing state record, it was fished out of the ice chest and weighed on a certified scale. Lane said he submitted all of the official paperwork to gain state record status last week.
"We didn't catch another fish this whole trip," said Lane. "But this made it a pretty exciting trip.
"Howard Bryan [another famous Brownbagger] was there two weeks before, and he'd caught a 15 1/2 pounder," said Lane, who said that Bryan and Cole had fished the lake two weeks early and caught a number of quality fish. "We fished five days and this was only fish. They just turned off, except for one. The big one."
Lane was fishing with Bryan and another Brownbagger, Ray Patterson.
Todd Brown, who owns the Paulina Lake Lodge, suggested they weigh the big brown on a certified scale and get the state record. He said that before Lane's fish, the best brown taken this year was a 20-pounder landed early in the season.
Jim Matthews ONS
10/16/02
BEND, Ore. -- Ron Lane of Olancha, a long-time member of the Brownbaggers, caught a 28-pound, five-ounce brown trout from Paulina Lake in Oregon on October 3rd to topple that state's record for brown trout. The fish beats the old record caught in 1993, also from Paulina, by nine ounces.
Lane was shallow-trolling a seven-inch A.C. Plug when he made the catch right at dusk on Thursday evening. The big trout took about 25 minutes to land.
"I told Allan [Cole] I had a picture of the fish with the A.C. Plug in it's mouth, but that he was going to have to pay dearly for it," joked Lane last week about the maker of the lure he used to catch the record fish.
The 64-year-old angler is well-known to long-time Eastern Sierra anglers, having landed a 22-pound, 12-ounce brown trout from Pleasant Valley Reservoir, and three trophy browns on the same day that weighed 13-8, 13-3 and 7-4, all which are mounted and on display in Culver's Sporting Goods in Bishop where Lane grew up.
Lane was one of the original members of the Brownbaggers, a club started by Allan Cole, who's only requirement for membership was that you land two brown trout over 10 pounds.
Lane said they didn't weigh the big brown officially for a couple of days because they didn't realize it was a state record. But once they heard it might topple the existing state record, it was fished out of the ice chest and weighed on a certified scale. Lane said he submitted all of the official paperwork to gain state record status last week.
"We didn't catch another fish this whole trip," said Lane. "But this made it a pretty exciting trip.
"Howard Bryan [another famous Brownbagger] was there two weeks before, and he'd caught a 15 1/2 pounder," said Lane, who said that Bryan and Cole had fished the lake two weeks early and caught a number of quality fish. "We fished five days and this was only fish. They just turned off, except for one. The big one."
Lane was fishing with Bryan and another Brownbagger, Ray Patterson.
Todd Brown, who owns the Paulina Lake Lodge, suggested they weigh the big brown on a certified scale and get the state record. He said that before Lane's fish, the best brown taken this year was a 20-pounder landed early in the season.
