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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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Dean and Cal worked all the usual spots but were unable to
get another hit. The weather was brutal, and as it neared time to get back all
twelve boats powered in looking like bobbers on the ocean. All I could think
about as we were heading in was that it was a good thing that John’s boat was a
full size Ranger. Anything less than 20 feet would have been flat out dangerous,
and we powered back at a pretty good click.
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You know the
weather is bad when you can't keep rain off your camera lens, or your boat
for that matter |
On the way back we took
two waves over the bow, and John laughed and said “I was thinking about taking
the time to head them off, but it isn’t that cold.”
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We get a
break towards the end and John boats a nice largemouth |
When we got back to the ramp everyone gathered around for
the weigh in of all the fish. Everyone was still gawking at Dean’s smallie hawg
when the very last boat came in.
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John powers
us back in |
Despite the tough conditions many of the pros managed
to scratch up largemouth and smallmouth from 2 to 4.5lbs each.
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RJ Bennett
measure a 4.3lb largemouth |
The last rig belonged to Alan Fong, host of the “Fun
Fishing” television show, when he got to the top of the ramp he reached into his
livewell and pulled out a 5lb+ smallmouth at which point many anglers
congratulated him on what was a quality fish, but remarked that Dean’s was still
bigger.
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A crowd
gathers to check out what Alan has in his livewell... |
In response Alan reached back into livewell and double
fisted a fish that was a cookie cutter of Dean’s! After digital scale
comparisons Alan had Dean beat by just over a single oz.
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...and they
are not disappointed by his fistfuls of bass |
That’s Pardee for you!
Just when we thought the day was won by Dean Alan proved that the big
bronzebacks are plentiful in Pardee. The lake, and state record keeps getting
toppled at Pardee, and judging from our sampling today it seems likely we can
expect the trend to continue.
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Pro Swimbait
Angler Russ Graves (right) with a contest winner from Kent's show, who had a
great day on the water |
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