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Apr 12 - 26, 2019
MAP FEATURE
VOL.38 • ISS. 9
Lake Amador is full to the brim and the Mother Lode foothills it is nestled in are now a verdant green, thanks to this year’s abundant
precipitation.
Photo by DAN BACHER, Fish Sniffer Staff.
Stockton Angler Wins Amador NTAC Event with 7.79 Lb. Trout
L
arry Valderrama of Stockton won
first place in the adult division
of NorCal Trout Anglers Challenge
(NTAC) event at Lake Amador on
Saturday, March 23, by catching a 7.79-
pound rainbow trout.
The angler was fishing with his wife,
Mary, from shore when the big trout hit
his Rooster Tail spinner in the launch
ramp cove.
“It was the only fish either of us
caught,” Valderrama said. “After it hit
around 9:30 a.m., it took about five
minutes to bring in. It’s my personal
best trout in my 20
years of fishing
the local lakes,
including
Amador,
Pardee,
Camanche and Rancho Seco.”
The morning started with some heavy
rain, but anglers enjoyed beautiful
spring weather on the Mother Lode
reservoir the rest of the day.
“The third event of the 2019 NTAC
season is in the books and we want to
thank all 166 anglers that participated
for being part of all the fun,” said Vince
Harris, President of Angler’s Press
Outdoors, the organization that created
and hosts NTAC events. “We
look forward to hosting the
next big event at Collins
Lake on April 13.”
Rich Peterson placed
second in the adult
division with his 4.79-
pound fish, while Jeff
Garcia placed third
with a 4.63-pound
trout in the event.
The fourth
through tenth
place
winners were:
(4) Susy
Martinez, 4.51;
(5) Jimmie
Trejo, 4.31; (6)
Chase Enswei-
ller, 4.19; (7)
Jimmy Wynne,
4.12; (8) Adam
Chollet, 4.1; (9)
Bruce Alger,
4.08; and (10)
Mark Wixon,
3.84 pounds.
Twen-
ty-four
anglers
fished in
The kids winners at the Lake Amador NTAC show off their prizes and
ribbons.
the youth
Photo by DAN BACHER, Fish Sniffer Staff.
division,
with 11
weighing in fish. Joey Hill Jr., who a tackle box filled with Rooster Tail
had just won the NTAC event youth lures for catching a trout while using a
Rooster Tail.
division at Pardee, also won first
Anglers hooked a mixture of beautiful
place in the Amador event with a
cuttbows,
rainbow trout and lightning
4.44-pound cuttbow. He was fishing
trout
raised
in the lake’s onsite fish
with his dad, Joe Hill Sr., during
hatchery.
Fishermen
landed the trout
the event.
while
fishing
PowerBait,
spinners and
Ryder Salveson placed second
spoons
from
shore
and
while
trolling
with a 2.91-pound. trout, while
Rapalas,
Kastmasters
and
other
lures
Derek Carlson placed third with a
from
boats.
2.76-pound fish.
Sponsors of the event included Gone
The fourth through tenth place
Fishin’
Marine of Dixon, Lasher Elk
winners in the youth division were:
Grove
Ram
Thomas Lures, Silver
(4) Jacob White, 2.6; (5) Harvey
Horde,
Yo-Zuri,
Mack’s Lure/Shasta
Levin, 2.22; (6) Ricardo Diaz III,
Tackle,
Hot
Spot/Apex,
Rapala, Luhr
2.16; (7) Ryder Peterson, 191; (8)
Jensen,
Dick
Nite
Spoons,
Yakima
Blane Ebojo, 1.63; (9) Bella Bender,
Bait,
Berkley,
Pro-Cure
Bait
Scents and
1.2; and (10) Shayden Seda, 1.2.
Fisherman’s
Warehouse.
Daiwa
is spon-
The event was sponsored by Gone
soring
the
2019
NTAC
Daiwa
Angler
of
Fishin’ Marine and Lasher Elk Grove
the
Year
Award.
Ram and hosted by Angler’s Press
Outdoors and the Fish Sniffer
Lake Amador has planted a total of
magazine.
21,500
pounds of trout from mid-Oc-
Matt Carlson won $100 and
tober to present. “We’re currently
stocking a mixture of Bonneville
cuttbows, a cross between a Bonneville
Susy Martinez bagged the biggest lighting trout, this 4.51
lb. beauty, during the NTAC event at Lake Amador on March
cutthroat and rainbow trout; Donaldson
23.
cuttbows, with heavy steelhead genetics;
Photo by DAN BACHER, Fish Sniffer Staff.