My friend Gabe invited me to join him at Pardee for a trout troll. Launched at 6:34 am and we headed for the River Arm. Started trolling around the Grapevine Gulch area. At 7:29 am Gabe got the first fish of the morning. The nice fat harding fighting trout was 19 inches and 2.2 lbs. I was up next with a 17 incher. We ended up getting four more trout,17 1/2, 15,14 1/2, and 15 inches. Best lure was a Frank's Fly Box, Camanche Orange Fox trolling fly. Next best was a Frank's white Porno Fly. Natural chartruse 3'' Power Grubs did ok as well. Best depth was 4 and 5 ft. Best speed was 1.5 to 1.6 mph. Set back 92 and 100ft
Stats- Air Temp- L-39* H-69*, Water temp was 54.6 warming to 56.8*, Water level-full, clarity- 6 ft, skies- sunny, Precipitation-0, wind- NW-5-10 mph, Hrs fished- 7:11 am till 2:08 pm
Gabe with the first fish of the morning
Fish Junky
our six take home fish
