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Beautiful Pardee Lake features plenty of great shore and boat fishing access.
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VOL.38 • ISS. 7
Photo by DAN BACHER, Fish Sniffer Staff.
Kris Caceres’ 7.03 lb. Rainbow Cinches
First Place in Pardee NTAC Event
ris Caceres of Loomis caught
just one fish at Lake Pardee on
Saturday, March 2, but it was the right
one.
He landed a 7.03 lb. rainbow trout
while trolling with his buddies Ishi
Cholette of Sacramento and J. Staffes
of Loomis, winning first place in the
Norcal Trout Anglers Challenge Tour-
nament at the popular Mother Lode
Reservoir on the Mokelumne River.
The fish was a beautiful wild trout
from the Mokelumne River or a
holdover planted fish, with perfect fins
and tail.
“I hooked the fish about 8 feet deep
behind a boulder,” said Caceres. “It was
the only fish any of us hooked all day.
The rod broke as I was fighting the fish,
but we managed to net it anyway.”
“I didn’t catch the fish until noon,”
he emphasized. “It just shows that you
are never done until you’re done. It was
the first trout tournament that I have
ever entered, though I have fished bass
tournaments before.”
Joey Hill Jr. won first place in the
event’s youth division by
catching a 1.76 lb.
rainbow while fishing
across from the
marina with his
dad, Joe Hill Sr.
“I was bait
fishing when I
hooked the fish,”
rainbow, while Dennis
Pajazetovic won third
place with a 2.67 lb.
rainbow.
The fourth through
tenth place winners were
(4) Rick Muller, 2.39;
(5) John Lo 2.23; (6)
Don Sciarrretta, 2.22; (7)
Tom Wolfenberger, 2.2;;
(8) Jeff Garcia, 2.19; (9)
Jay Larson, 2.19; and
(10) Luke Taromina,
2.17.
Twelve anglers entered
the youth division for the
tournament, with three
weighing in fish. Aponi
Taylor placed second
with a 1.44 lb. rainbow,
while Jacob White
placed third with a 1.3
lb. trout.
The Youth Division winners of the NTAC event at Pardee
One angler won $100 proudly pose with Sheldon Bright of the Fish Sniffer.
Photo by DAN BACHER, Fish Sniffer Staff.
and a tackle box filled
with Rooster Tail lures
for catching a trout Warehouse. Daiwa is sponsoring the
while using a
2019 NTAC Daiwa Angler of the Year
Rooster Tail.
Award.
Sponsors
Rainbow trout are the most popular
of the event
species pursued at Pardee – and grow
included
big and fat in the rich waters of the
Gone Fishin’
reservoir. Ronny Shelton of Ione set the
Marine of
lake rainbow record on June 14, 2002
Dixon, Lasher
when he landed an 18.65 lb. fish while
Elk Grove Ram
bank fishing with Power Bait in the
Thomas Lures, Silver recreation area.
Horde, Yo-Zuri, Mack’s
The fishing last season opened under
Lure/Shasta Tackle, Hot
new management, the Rocky Mountain
Spot/Apex, Rapala, Luhr
Recreation Company. The rainbow
Jensen, Dick Nite Spoons,
trout fishing was superb at Lake Pardee
Yakima Bait, Berkley,
on the opening weekend of 2019.
Pro-Cure Bait Scents and Fisherman’s
For example, Daryl and Therese
Carter of Sacramento reported catching
their five fish limits of trout averaging
Kris Caceres of Loomis proudly displays the 7.03
1 to 1-1/2 pounds each by 9 a.m. on
pound rainbow that propelled him to first place at
the Lake Pardee NTAC event on March 2. What a
February 15.
beautiful trout!
“It was lights out fishing,” said Carter.
said Hill. “We caught our three fish by
9 a.m. We didn’t catch any fish after
that.”
The anglers braved the cold and at
times torrential rain to catch their trout
in the event presented by Gone Fishin’
Marine and Lasher Elk Grove Ram and
hosted by Angler’s Press Outdoors and
the Fish Sniffer magazine.
“Once again this group of dedicated
anglers braved the elements and showed
up in big numbers to stay in the hunt for
a berth in this year’s championship on
Collins Lake in November. The race is
on and it’s shaping up to be and exiting
year,” noted Vince
Harris, president
of Angler’s Press
Outdoors, the
organization
that created the
NorCal Trout
Anglers tour.
Trevor Krugg
won second
place with a
2.95 lb.
Photo by DAN BACHER, Fish Sniffer Staff.