{"id":42167,"date":"2022-02-17T00:08:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T07:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/shaw-lands-a-fish-of-a-lifetime\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:05:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:05:44","slug":"shaw-lands-a-fish-of-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/shaw-lands-a-fish-of-a-lifetime\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaw lands a \u2018fish of a lifetime\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5ae5cb73-70a1-5fc2-91ce-26bce22e35fe&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1199\" height=\"1600\" alt=\"Lonny Shaw shows off the rainbow trout he caught recently in the Animas River. Shaw estimated the fish was 28 to 30 inches in length. Courtesy\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Lonny Shaw shows off the rainbow trout he caught recently in the Animas River. Shaw estimated the fish was 28 to 30 inches in length. Courtesy<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Lonny Shaw, 75 of Durango, said he was fishing Jan. 31 in the Animas River above 32nd Street, where rafts launch, when he felt a bump in his line.<\/p>\n<p>Shaw said he had been there a couple of hours and hadn\u2019t seen anyone, but as soon as he got a bite and started reeling the fish in, some help showed up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust when I hooked him, a guy pulled up, saw what I had and ran down to help me,\u201d Shaw said.<\/p>\n<p>Shaw is a fly-fishing instructor, but was using worms for bait because he said he can\u2019t wade in the river because of the condition of his knees. He didn\u2019t have a net with him either, so after fighting with the fish, he ended up dragging it on the shore to land it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the biggest one I\u2019d ever seen,\u201d Shaw said. \u201cI\u2019ve caught thousands of fish in my life, but that one got my heart going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shaw estimated the rainbow trout he caught was 28 to 30 inches long. After the driver who ran to his aid helped him snap a few pictures for evidence, Shaw released the fish back into the water, saying that he doesn\u2019t like to keep the really big fish he catches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI let him go, and he took off like a torpedo,\u201d Shaw said.<\/p>\n<p>Shaw, however, won\u2019t soon forget the catch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the fish of a lifetime,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>catches a big rainbow in the Animas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[885],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-42167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-fishing"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85246,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42167\/revisions\/85246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42167"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=42167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}