Top Pros Come out
for Pardee - 2nd Annual Media Day
(continued)
It was all business at
that point, while fish were being caught there was no sign of the mammoth
smallmouth that we had the pleasure of catching last year. Randy and Zander
decided to head up the Mokelumne river and try and pick some smallmouth bass off
the rocky drop offs. Randy powered up the river and kept looking down at his
finder.
Byron gets on a fish and runs to
the back of the boat to keep up with it...
The deeper he went the
more he frowned and as he entered the 5mp zone he swung the boat full circle.
“Not even worth it,” he exclaimed “the water dropped over 2 degrees just around
this point, let’s work the cut instead.”
...and back to the front
Outside in the cut Randy
started with a Skinny Bear 1oz. jig with a Berkley Chigger Craw trailer and went
straight to the bottom. Zander tied on a Megabass Deep X200T and went to town
cranking the clear water. Pardee is so clear that you could see all the way to
the bottom even in 30 feet of water.
Byron bends down to lip the
fish...
It is an eerie sight when
you cast over 50 feet out and can see your lure wobbling all the way back to the
boat. It is even more uncanny when you can see a fish chase the lure all the way
back to the boat, which is exactly what happened. The only problem was that
Zander couldn’t keep the trout off the lure, and they seemed mesmerized by the
bait.
...and brings up a nice largemouth
Randy and Zander had a
double hookup, double trout that is. Randy kept stinging trout on his 1oz. jig
while Zander couldn’t keep them off the DeepX. If this was a trout derby they
would have been in great shape, as the next 30 minutes in the deep cut was an
absolute troutfest!
Randy McAbee and Zander get into
the trout, it didn't matter if it was jigs or cranks, it was a bona-fide
troutfest
From the distance Randy
saw pro angler Bub Tosh powering towards the cut and waved him in. Knowing Bub
Tosh would have swimbaits on board Randy yelled “can I borrow a Hudd and a
swimbait stick?” Bub parallel parked and dug into his locker for an extra stick
and handed it to Randy. “We’ve been killing the trout at this spot, I want to
run a Hudd through there,” Randy explained.
Randy waves pro angler Bub Tosh
and Tony Stoltz of Westerbass over
