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PEDRO FOR TROUT & BASS
By: Ron Wilson
March 8, 2010.... The water in
Lake Don Pedro is rising daily and I look for the lake to end up
brim full this year.
The trout are still active and they're in the top 20 feet of water. Once
the sun gets up and they get a little pressure they go down a little
deeper.
I was pre-fishing for a trout tournament
that will be held this weekend with one of my fishing friends Harold
Willey. We launched at Blue Oaks and headed to the
Jenkins Hill area.
We put out 3 rods to troll with to start the day. One rod at 2 colors of
lead core in the water and one at 3 colors and the other rod 150 feet
out the back of the boat top lining with a quarter ounce weight 3 feet
ahead of an Ex-Cel Lure.
When we got to the area the fish were
jumping and feeding on top as the full moon was setting and the bite was
awesome. We hadn't traveled a 100 yards when we had the first 2 pounder
on an Ex-Cel Blue Gold
Lure. I just love those nice holdover trout as they jump and run just
like wild trout and fight you all the way back to the boat. Nothing like
getting that first fish in the box and getting the skunk off the boat.
I am not sure if we had gotten the rod
back in the water when it was Harold's turn to fight a chunky holdover
trout. Harold was all smiles as the fish would go airborne dancing and
then hit the water on a drag pulling run. These 2 pounders have some
shoulders and know how to use them Harold said.
 We
made a couple circles boxing fish on every circle and then we headed
upstream to look for bigger fish. I know, leave fish to find fish is
senseless but hey we had 5 in the box and I was up there looking for
something bigger.
Twenty
minutes and no
action I complained. Harold chuckled and said boy are you spoiled we
were hooking up every 10 to 15 minutes and now 20 minutes is to long. We
found a couple more 2 pounders in the next hour and went back to our
starting spot and finished off our limit by 9 a.m.
The sun had hit the water and when I put
the lead core lines out to 4 and 5 colors deep we had a double almost
immediately on the blue-silver lures I had changed to. The trout were
very selective on what they wanted to hit and how they wanted you to
present it to them.
If you know your on fish and can't catch
them keep changing lures until you find one they want to eat then feed
it to them.
Next stop was
bass fishing.
We headed into Fleming Creek to check it out but never got so much as a
nibble. Next stop was back in Rodgers arm for one nice smalley which
there seems to be a lot of in the lake this year. The fish fell for a
drop shot 6 inch 1050 Wright Bait straight tail worm.
The fish was off a point in 10 feet of water.
We fished the area pretty well but never
caught another fish, so we headed to 49er Creek to check it out. Harold
said he hadn't checked it out in years and its been a few years since
the water has been high enough for me to want to go in there to give it
a try. I soon found out that the water needs to come up another 10 feet
or so for the area to turn on where I can get to the rock wall I like to
fish there.
Next stop was up Big Creek and some steep
walls where I missed a couple more bass and then put another smalley in
the boat for dinner.
Harold said lets go clean our fish and
call it a day as he was getting worn out. Those desk jobs can ruin a
guys stamina, I know I did it for 40 years and now I have to contend
with the couch syndrome.
After these storms the bass fishing bite
should turn wide open and with the rising water a swim bait for the
biggies and a crawdad bait for the rest should be a meal ticket for
anyone who is hungry. |
