Hi everybody,
I received an email from Bill Karr of Western Outdoor News a couple of days ago and he said he needed to run a test on a new product and we needed to go to a lake that had King Salmon in it. We settled on Tuesday the 16 Th of March at Don Pedro, we get the boat in the water at 7:00 and head out to the fishing grounds and get setup, we set out the rods and its not to long and we start getting bit, we fished for alittle over two hours and we caught 10 small Kings, the test we ran were on some new flashers, and I tell you what they really worked great I have not seen anything like this and I don't think the fish have seen them either, as the side of the boat we had them on was the only side that was getting bit.
I wanted to get Bill some nice fish, so I switched over to catch some trout as we trolled along for awhile with out a hit, bill was starting to wonder how long it was going to take to catch something one of the rods doubles over hard! he grabs the rod as I turn around to watch, the fish is already airborne again and again and I'm thinking this is a nice fish, this fished made several hard runs and as we get him close to the boat and we finally get a good look at him, we were like wow that's a nice fish! as I eased it into the net and after a few high fives, he measured twenty inches and weighed Three pounds, so we work the area and 15 minutes later the same rod goes off again and again another nice fish, although it was not as big as the first one it was still another beauty, around two pounds, and then we boated one more trout after another twenty minutes a smaller fish yet, but a good fish, so we pulled in the rods and called it a day, as Bill had a long drive home.
A successful day on the water catching fish and running a test on a new product.
Monte Smith
Gold Country Sportfishing

OK I guess it time to catch up on my posting.
Wow have we had some rain or what!
Sure has been tough getting out between the storms rolling through, but that's okay we neeeeeeddd the rain.
Finally a day I know its going to be nice Thursday the 11Th of March, I called my dad to see if he would like to get out and go fishing no hesitation there.
We headed for Don Pedro and it was a pretty cool morning, but I new we were in store for a very sunny day.
As we got to the lake it looked as if allot of other people had the same idea.
We started out fishing for Kings for the first hour and a half and we only boated one small king, and then I switched over to troll for some trout and once we found the fish we caught some good fish, one weighed in at three pounds and another weighed well over two pounds and then some smaller ones a little over a pound, we also lost three others that we seen , but just came undone, so at the end of the day we boated six trout and lost three and we caught two small salmon that we let go.
Monte Smith
Gold Country Sportfishing

Okay, I know its been to long since my last posting so here it goes.
February the 20Th took my two girls out fishing to Don Pedro, it was an overcast day and it took awhile to find some fish that wanted to play, but once we found them it was a blast watching my kids reel in some very nice fish as you can see on the gallery page of my web site.
Taylor my youngest daughter was the only one that wanted her picture taken as my oldest is now a teenager and you know how that goes, but as long as they still want to go fishing thats fine with me.
Monte Smith
Gold Country Sportfishing