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Monday, February 19th, 2007

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    Water Temp: not sure.

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: hiked in to the lake again. water's way up at the lake. only easy shore access i found was at the damn. a decent amount of debris in the dirty water, weeds, reeds, etc. threw senkos for about 10 minutes with no strikes so i switched to a red 1/4 oz. spinnerbait. caught one bass of about 1 lb. (at most). that's it. slowed since my last two visits.
    City: petaluma

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 50?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: hiked in to Annadel and reached the lake at about 5:00pm. pretty cold on the water, wind and air temp of about 45. caught a nice fish again on my first cast, about 2.5 lbs (17") on a green senko (same as my report from sunday). when i was taking the hook out i noticed the tail of another less fortunate "baitfish" sticking out of the gullet. pretty cool and indicative of some pretty active feeding, i'd say... caught another one of about 1.5 and another much smaller shaker. hooked and landed three, total weight of about 4.5 lbs. nice results for about 40 minutes of fishing.
    City: petaluma

    Tips: all fish were caught with the senko texas rigged. i threw it wacky for a while, but didn't get a strike using this method.
    Catch and Release!

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 50???

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: hiked into Annadel today and brought my gear. on my first cast throwing a green senko i hooked about a 1.0 pounder, a nice one that fought pretty hard, especially on my UL rod and 4 lb. test line. fished for about a half hour and had four hits: one landed, one on and off (drag malfunction, totally my fault) and two missed.
    if you haven't been here in a while (as was the case for me today) you'll be surprised how low the water is. there is a ton more structure to the lake than i'd previously thought and it was nice to take notice for future outings.. a nice day with no one else out fishing.
    City: petaluma

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: My friend and I made our anual hike up to my favorite float tubing lake. We got on the water around 7am and had the lake to ourselves. We slayed fish all day. We caught them on spinnerbaits in white/chartruce and chrone speed traps, drop shootiong and flipping.
    I caught 34 fish with the largest being around 3 pounds. My buddy Dave caught 35 fish. We had the lake to our selves all day. We saw two float tubers coming up as we where leaving. We fished until 2pm. If you haven't hiked up to Sanj, then you must try it. Strap your float tube ontop a backpack and enjoy the walk. Leave early in the morning and take a lunch and get ready for a great time on the water.
    Also please visit our float tube club web page at www.scbbbc.com

    Rich
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: Keep all your gear simple and be sure to bring a flipping stick and a drop-shoot rod.

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught 32 fish!! Mainly 1-pounders, did get a handful of 2-pounders. First time using my new float tube on Lake Illsanjo. Caught on
    1) Zoom super fluke, green pumpkin color
    2) Senko, wacky rigged, green pumpkin and green pumpkin with red flake.
    3) Yammamoto Kreature, green pumpkin with red flake
    4) Brown jig with brush hog trailer, cut the brush hog in half.

    Threw a snagproof frog on top of the weeds, but no bites. Tried white and green frog. Nothing. I was dying to catch something over 2pounds so I cast my new RivertoSea Live Bait, no hits and then it got snagged on the bottom.
    City: Hidden Valley Lake

    Tips: Any soft plastic in green pumpkin just kills them. Also, worms rigged wacky.

Thursday, June 7th, 2001

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    Water Temp: warmish

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: well the thing is you gotta hike into this mountain lake and basically use ly ishin&or light tackle. Cause o' the reeds r so thickaround the banks,its tough castin out to deeperareas with structure.
    City: rosatown

    Tips: haul in a loat tube or those hard to reach spotswhere you might ind a 21/2 lber. turtles will bite.

Sunday, March 25th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I'm posting this with hopes that some one out there in the ishing community can help. On Sunday night,03/24/01, sometime ater 10:00 p.m. I had all o my ishing gear stolen out o the back o my truck in the vicinity o west college ave. and Stony point rd. in Santa Rosa. my gear consisted o;One G-Loomis medium-heavy 6 1/2 t. spinning rod with a silver rear drag quickire reel.One FLW burnt orange medium-heavy 6 1/2 t. baitcasting rod with a red Quantom baitcasting reel that was in serious need o a tune up.One Bill Dance blue 7 Ft. medium heavy baitcasting rod with a silver baitcasting reel.One red 6 t. medium action spinning rod with a silver rear drag spinning reel.one green plastic lat type tackle box with a white double lid(creates two level storage)illed with numerous plastic baits, hooks, wieghts, etc.One brown and ivory split lid tackle box with side latches and six trays(3 small and 3 large) illed with numerous crank baits, spinner baits, top waters, a box containing Cabella's 31 piece jig kit, a box containing a 5 piece scum rog and popper rog kit, Castaic threadin shad and many other blade, spoon and swimm baits. I any one comes across any o these items or can assist in there recovery in any way please contact me at 546-3401 or e-mail me at randy@ren-o-masters.com. As most o you can understand, ishing is my passion. Please help i you can. Thank you
    City: Santa Rosa

Sunday, October 1st, 2000

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    Water Temp: 68 F

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club held its 9th event o year @ Annadel State Park's Lake Ilsanjo on Saturday. Winning weight was 6.34 lb or 5 ish. Big ish was 1.65 lb. Twenty-one anglers participated, & 68 bass came to the scales. Bass went or a huge variety o lures - blades, crankbaits, topwaters, sot plastics, etc. Fish were caught both shallow & deep throughout the day. Lake level was down, water was clear, weeds were thick in spots.
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: For more ino about the club, send me an e-mail and/or check out our website @ http://scbbbc.homestead.com.

Friday, June 18th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: This is a test o the automatic report cgi
    City: San Jose

    Tips: lets hope it worksFishing Reports or Lake Ilsanjo

Sunday, May 23rd, 1999

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    Water Temp: 67-68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club held 4th event o year @ Lake Ilsanjo in Annadel State Park. Winning weight was 7.51 lb. Second place was 7.44 lb (less 0.2 lb late meeting timepenalty), 3rd @ 7.10 lb. Big ish was 1.85 lb. Eleven anglers participated, & nine o them brought in 5-ish limits. 51 bass total weighed in. Fish went or a variety o lures, including crankbaits,spinnerbaits, lukes, buzzbaits, & jigs & sot plastics lipped & pitched into tules. Congratulations to our 4 new anglers, 3 o whom brought in 5-ish limits (the other weighed in 4 ish). Also, one o them caught big ish (not easy on this small ish lake).
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: *** Float Tubers/Kick Boaters: Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club will next meet on June 2 @ 7 PM @ Coddingtown Round Table Pizza in Santa Rosa. Next event in June 6 @ Spring Lake (also in Santa Rosa). And, check out our web site @ www.tweenit.com/scbbc/index.htm. E-mail me i you would like more ino on club. ***

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: how did the water look was it way down?
    City: santa rosa

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Anybody know if the lake is completely dried up yet? I havent been able to go but i plan to this weekend, hopefully with a float tube. I dont want to take everything just to see a dry lake! haha. I just thought that since there havent been any recent reports that maybe there was no more Lake Ilsanjo. Email or another post is fine. Thanks, good luck!
    City: Santa Rosa