If you want to know what it takes to win a kayak tournament on Lake Don Pedro in June, you don't have to guess — it happened on June 27, 2026, and the leaderboards are public. Yak-A-Bass ran three boards that weekend: the main event, a points event, and a WCC-qualifier team event. Joseph Silva's name finished #1 on all three.
The June 2026 numbers
Main board: 110.75 inches over six bass, with a 20.75-inch kicker, against an 84-kayak field where fifth place needed 106.75 — a four-inch spread across the top five. The points event (best-5 format, 61 anglers) won at 90.0 inches. The team-event board won at 98.0 over five, and the weekend's biggest bass measured 21.75 inches. June here isn't a big-bite lottery; it's a grind-out-a-limit fishery where every quarter inch counts.
The April benchmark
The other data point is April 27, 2024: 99 kayaks — one of the club's biggest fields — and James Sanchez won with 106.0 inches over six, where the event's biggest bass went just 20.0 inches. Two events, two seasons, same lesson: winning Don Pedro bags live in the 106–111 inch range, built on 17-to-19-inch fish rather than one giant.
Where to launch
Fleming Meadows Recreation Area, 11500 Bonds Flat Rd, La Grange (37.7020, -120.4046) — the ramp the club's 2026 team event ran from, operated by the Don Pedro Recreation Agency. 2026 fees: $20 per vehicle day use plus $15 per vessel, cards add 3%. Gate hours are 8am–4pm daily mid-May through mid-September (weekdays only off-season), and a use permit is required for all access — plan your tournament-day entry around that gate, and confirm current rules at (209) 852-2396.
Reading the pattern
Don Pedro is a deep, clear foothill reservoir with 160 miles of shoreline, and the results say depth-and-coverage, not hero bites: no event big fish here has cracked 22 inches in the data, while winning limits keep landing within a five-inch window. Bring the electronics, commit to the mid-size pattern, and don't leave fish to chase a kicker that history says isn't coming.
