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Event Article:
Pros and Press on Pardee Lake |
Rain or Shine the
Smallies come out for the Pros on Pardee Lake
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To
get more quality fish they headed over to find fish the docks in the marina. Cal
cut off his swimbait and went with a cinnamon/black&purple flake (color
221)Yamamoto Kreature. The change paid off with a strike, a solid one. Bub
turned back and said, “Smallie, good one.” Cal loaded up on the Loomis Shakey
head rod and cranked on his Daiwa Certate 2000. The fish responded and Bub
yelled “easy Shooter, let her run!” The rod loaded up and Cal brought it up
closer to the surface.
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Cal jokes
with Bub about the "trout incident" |
With no net on the boat, Bub kneeled down to lip the fish,
when he was greeted with a spastic 6lb Rainbow trout. In total dismay, he stood
up turned to Cal and said “well, you’re on your own bro.” Cal worked his way
down to the fish and fought it along side the boat once more so he could reach
for the underbelly of the trout. As he grabbed his line to steady the fish, it
dove once more and *snap* went Cal’s line.
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Alan Fong
host of "Fun Fishing" TV talks shop |
Cal looked up at Bub and told him, "Dude, what's up with no net in the boat. We
had the trout derby won on that fish. Wait until I get done with the write up on
that one. People are going to be calling you for trophy trout trips on Pardee
instead of bass on Don Pedro!"
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Mid way
through its looking good for Dean and Zander |
With
the day half done we head back to the marina to regroup and compare notes. Out
of twelve boats Dean and I had caught the most fish, and Dean had also boated
the largest fish of the day so far.
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Double G
(Greg Guiterrez) works a worm at the start of the second half |
For the
second part of the day Cal fished with Dean and I ran shotgun with John Meas.
John and I decided to focus on quality largemouth since Dean had already caught
what was pretty much the unbeatable smallmouth of the day.
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John Maes
focuses on finesse lures and drop shot |
The
weather so far had been windy but we knew the rain was coming just by the way
the wind was increasing in strength. Within the first hour the wind went from
about 12 to 20mph, and Mother Nature threw in some solid bouts of intense rain
for good measure. The bite got a whole lot tougher, and staying dry was just as
hard as keeping our lures in position.
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The weather
turns and winds and heavy rain come pouring in |
I
continued to focus on jigs and deep diving cranks while John turned to worms and
a drop shot rig. I had one hit, but wasn’t able to boat another fish all day.
John on the other hand had a few hits, and with just twenty minutes before weigh
in he boated a football shaped 4.5lb largemouth that put up a serious fight on
his light spinning drop shot St. Croix rod.
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Zander gears
up for the rain |
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Section: John shows us a Pardee Largemouth
