Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3722 Oct 12-26 | Page 20
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FRESHWATER
Oct 12 - 26, 2018
FRESHWATER REPORTS:
PARDEE LAKE
CONTINUED FROM PG 14
NEW MELONES LAKE
Trout Dominate Early
Fall Angling Parade
cont.
IONE – Trout dominated
the catches at Pardee Lake
over the past couple of
weeks. The latest plant of
1,000 pounds of rainbows in
the 1 to 5 lb. range went into
the reservoir on September
19.
“Tony and his buddy from
Stockton caught 7 trout,”
said Sylva Rodgers of the
Rocky Mountain Recreation
Company. “They walked the
shore line trail on the back
side of the recreation area,
(Stony Creek Landing) out
to the point and were fishing
with green garlic power bait.
Their average fish weighed
3.5 pounds.”
Lee Hang also with a great
day fishing when he landed 7
trout, keeping five, and a 4 lb.
catfish, fishing off Porcupine
Point, across from Marina.
He was also using the green
garlic bait.
While fishing at the south
end of the lake, Herb Speas
and Sylva Rodgers caught
a couple of very nice trout
using white and green Power
Bait. Their trout were in the
2.5 to
3 b.
range.
will be moving up within the next month,
eventually rising to the surface when the
lake turns over by mid-November.
For largemouth and spotted bass, the
topwater bite remains slow, but the shad
schools are forming with the slightly
cooler water temperatures. The bass
are transitioning from a summer to fall
pattern, and the bite will improve with
the temperatures dropping. Plastics on
the drop-shot or small swimbaits in shad
patterns have produced numbers of bass
while the larger grade can be taken in the
warmer waters of the afternoons in the
shallows with crankbaits or jerkbaits.
New Melones is known for trophy
catfish, and the registration for the Glory
Hole Sports Catfish Contest beginning
October 1st and lasting throughout the
month has started with only a few more
spots left. Glory Hole has added a ‘Big
Cat Pot,’ and the first 12-pound catfish to
the shop wins the pot. Crappie can still
be found around the marina cove with
live minnows or small minijigs around
structure.
The lake dropped slightly to 75 percent.
- Dave Hurley
OROVILLE LAKE
Rolling Shad Yields
Landlocked Kings
PYRAMID LAKE/TRUCKEE
RIVER
Anglers Battle Big Lahontan
Cutthroats
RENO - Pyramid Lake reopened to
trout fishing on October 1, seeing the
usual large crowd of anglers descend on
the lake to pursue the huge Lahontan
cutthroats that it is renowned for.
“The fishing has been really good for
boaters and bank anglers this morning,”
said Valerie at Crosby’s Lodge on opening
day. “One angler just reported catching a
10 lb. Lahontan cutthroat trout at Pelican.”
Beaches currently open to fishing
include Pelican Point, Warrior Point,
Blockhouse, and Popcorn Rock, according
to a press release from the Pyramid Lake
Paiute Tribe.
“The Tribe has closed beaches on
These folks hit the Feather River with Rustic Rob on