City Limit Trout 12/3/12

When I was fishing on Melones with Garrett He told me that Hagen Park in Rancho got stocked. I used to fish here a lot back in highschool and since I was gonna be in the area anyways I found the time to go and give the pond a shot while I was in Rancho for school. Got to the pond around 1200 and my friend Adam was all ready out there slamming a few.

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Only him and one other guy out there which was nice not having to deal with a crowd. I walked around and found a few that wanted to hit a jig.

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I just kept moving and working water till I found a consistent area with biting fish. After that it was pretty easy pickings.

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I was working jigs the majority of the time. Adam was slamming most of his fish on powerbait.

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Lots of memories fishing at this pond. Plenty of good and bad, but I love being able to fish a city pond with great action. Especially back when this pond was only a 10 min. walk from my house.

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I gave my friend Brian a call and told him to come on down and join in on some of action. Took a little convincing but I got him and his girlfriend to come down and fish a little bit. Pretty easy convincing when the location is so close and it doesn't cost them a dime.

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Didn't take long to get them on fish.

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I had them set up with a powerworm under a bobber and it was getting hit pretty frequently.

Ashayla with her first fish ever.

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Close to 1530 Garrett finally got out of school and came down to join us. He had a goal of having a double with himself that he never was able to achieve, but he gave it his all in trying for it.

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Closer to sundown the action started to pick up even more.

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The crowds started coming out too though and the sun was setting so we all called it a day around sundown. Not really sure how many I caught. I usually stop counting after 5, but I know I was some where close to 30 when Garrett arrived. Everyone else was doing just as good. Only person I saw doing better then us was a kid throwing some roe that the trout were just hammering.

Felt great getting back to an area where I learned a lot of my roots. I spent a lot of my time as a teenager at this pond and learned how to fly fish here. Also learned how to keep crowds away from you here all in the same process if you know what I man Lots of fun doing some C&R all day and just fishing with friends.

Till Next Time Guys
Mark