Hi everyone,
Again, two more trips to Don Pedro this week and the fishing has not disappointed us at all.
Yes, the moon was coming full and we had no problem at all boating mixed limits of King Salmon and Rainbow trout for our clients, Tuesdays clients we were able to get in a great day of fishing, before a Storm was coming and they boated and released many fish before the days end keeping there ten nice fish, they kept four trout and six kings, then Friday the fishing was just as good, as we fished just after a couple days of hard rain, ,it was a great day, we caught some quality fish with the biggest king weighing in at Three and a half pounds.
I can not express enough now is the time to go fishing, and now the weather looks to be great for for sometime (I hope), with some trips scheduled for Melones kokanee, it will be a good change of pace for us.
Will let you know on the outcome of our trips!
Monte Smith
Gold Country Sportfishing

Hi All,
Okay, remember in my last posting where I said the fishing was hot at Don Pedro on Tuesday with three clients, well I was out again on Friday the 21st with four clients at Don Pedro,this time they hired me to go out in there boat and help them with there equipment, so I packed some gear, like lures and a couple of rods and off I went.
I used my home made spoons and we hammered the fish, and thought the fishing was good before, but this time it was smokin hot!
The wind was blowing and the fish were coming on board fast.
We ended up keeping 18 fish at the days end, we also caught a small brown that we let go, one guy lost three fish in a row, everyone lost fish on this day, we also caught a nice bass that went back in the pond.
The three biggest fish were (trout) that looked like triplets all at three pounds, check out the photos on my web site = they should be there soon.
Monte Smith
Gold Country Sportfishing

Hi everyone,
Man all can say the fishing is on here at Don Pedro!
We fished today May the 18Th for great action!!! with three clients.
I did not even get the second rod out and we had fish on, it took awhile to get the fourth rod out and before I knew it we had six nice trout in the box and we lost a couple of fish in the heat of the moment.
We have been running nothing but our home made spoons to catch our trout and some salmon.
The water is warming to the 70 degree mark on the surface, so that means the fish are dropping.
Then around ten or so we swithced over to roll shad at much deeper depths for salmon, it took sometime to get the fish interested in our bait and locate them, but once we did we had some decent action, we ended the day with 13 fish in the boat and lost some salmon in the process, but a great day of fishing.
Monte Smith
Gold Country Sportfishing

We were back at Don Pedro again today the 14Th day of May with two very nice people.
The day started out somewhat slow as it took a little time to locate the fish, but once we found them, and found what color they wanted we focused on that, and after boating a couple of nice trout, then we switched over to fishing with bait to try our luck at Salmon, it was not long before and we found a school of fish that were willing to bite and we ended the day around noon with our ten fish.
A very nice day on the water!
Monte Smith
Gold Country Sportfishing

Hi all,
A trip back to Pedro on May the 13Th with two great people wanting to see my technique's on how I caught trout and King Salmon, so we trolled our homemade spoons for the first Three hours catching, keeping, releasing and losing some fish, then we switched over to fish bait at deeper depths, we were done at 12:oo O'clock straight up with our ten fish, we had three trout and seven Kings, what a great day to be on the water.
Monte Smith
Gold Country Sportfishing

Hi everyone,
Man all I can say the fishing is on at Don Pedro!
A trip on May the 12Th to the lake, these folks wanted to catch only King Salmon, and that's all we caught, we had a great bite with the first fish of the day being Three pounds, and then all smaller fish, but a great day, we ended the day keeping our ten and we released five fish, and losing some in the process.
Monte Smith
Gold Country Sportfishing

Hello everyone.
I tell you what May is a great month to catch Trout.
Saturday the 8Th of May we were back at Don Pedro, this day proved to be a great day, the weather was perfect and the fish were in a great biting mood, we caught big nice trout and King Salmon trolling our home made spoons for the entire trip.
We had three limits of fish by 11:00 o'clock and we also lost a really big king salmon just as it was getting ready to be netted, nobody did anything wrong it just spit the hook, so that means it just was not hooked good enough to begin with.
Check out the photos on my web site.
Thanks
Monte Smith
Gold Country Sportfishing

A trip to the Don Pedro with a single client on the 4Th of May was a good day.
The day started out trolling fast with our homemade spoons, if you have never seen this done, you have to experience it at least once, can you imagine trolling three miles per hour and and a big trout hits it, what the rod does is a sight to see, and trying to get it out of the rod holder is a blast.
This day I did not even get the second rod out as we had a fish on, so we boated that one and let it go.
We fished this way for the first three hours or so and then switched over to Kings, and we caught some from 80 to 95 feet, we also caught a kokanee at 80 feet on shad go figure.
We finished the day keeping seven fish, and letting some go, and we lost a few also.
Monte Smith
Gold Country Soprtfishing

Hi all,
Okay I know its been sometime since my last posting, so please forgive me.
We have basically been fishing just Don Pedro, and the action has been good for us.
A trip on the 30Th of April with three returning clients for the past four years did not disappoint. I thought we would be bucking the winds as the storms we were having, but to my surprise the weather was perfect, we started out by the dam and it was not ten minutes and we had a double, after netting one of the fish, (we lost the other,) as soon as I got the second rod back out it was fish on again, I thought wow this is going to be great, so I worked the area hard for awhile for nothing, so we moved on and had some hits and boated a couple of fish and as the progressed, we had a slow steady pick of fish, when the day came to an end, they had ten fish to take home.
We let some go and we lost a few in the process, but a good day on the water.
Monte Smith
Gold Country Sportfishing