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consistency wasn’ t there.

“ Don Pedro is behaving strangely,” Monte told me.“ The surface temperature is several degrees lower than it should be and I’ m marking some sort of odd thermocline down around 25 feet. There shouldn’ t be a thermocline this time of the year, but there is. I’ m not hooking or seeing anything up on the surface.”

“ Everything we’ ve been getting is down in that 30-foot zone. There seems to be very little holding above or below that depth, but it’ s not like a summer thermocline situation either. The fish aren’ t stacked in the thermocline like you’ d

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It was a long dark 170- mile drive for me to reach Don Pedro, but seeing the lake nearly full after so many years of drought was in itself worth the effort. The hills were green, the lake was up and day promised to be beautiful and rain free!

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Presently, Monte was ready to roll and a few minutes later we were on the troll pulling a spread of Monte’ s handmade Chucker T spoons at around 30 feet. We also had a pair of Rapalas working on the surface off a pair of big yellow planer boards. At some point the rainbows would move up toward the surface. Maybe this would be the day!

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couple weeks annoying biting insects like mosquitos and ticks are out in force. Just the other evening my wife Gena was out on our deck and suddenly ran inside.“ Mosquitos got me and now I’ m itching,” she said. Sure enough she lifted up her shirt and there were six bites quickly forming into welts. After I put some Benadryl lotion on the bites I asked her if she wanted some Deep Woods Off.“ I don’ t like putting those chemicals on

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Dan, Reed and Ben rounded up plenty of rainbows for a good old fashioned fish fry when they fished Don Pedro Reservoir this April.

Photo by CAL KELLOGG, Fish Sniffer Staff.

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- Cal Kellogg