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Monday, July 11th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I got a late start at about 8:00 a.m. The wind was kicking up white caps on the main arm so I headed south past the marina. I started with 6" purple worms. I missed the first 3 bites! The 4th one I was more patient and landed a bright bass from 25 feet of a verticle tree. Decided to try again and the fish bite, it won by burying itself in a limb. I had to break it off. I switched to a white 5" Yamamoto twin tail grub.
    I saw a lot of suspended fish between 10 to 25' and decided to pitch it and just let it sink. I felt pressure and did not sink hook too strong. I reeled it to within a few fish of the boat when the 2lb'er shook off. I got tired of fighting the wind and it was getting too hot so I called it a day after 3 hours.
    City: Windsor

    Tips: Start early if you can before sunrise. Most of the fish were betwee 10 to 25 feet. I had no luck with a Senko or crank bait.

Friday, July 1st, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: i have caught some catfish at sonoma on chicken livers left in the sun for a while. the rot smell seems to work better. i have heard the bridge is the best place because the fish are larger, but have caught fish to 16lbs in yorty creek. near the ends of the creek a bit after dark seem to be best
    City: penngrove

Tuesday, June 14th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Redwood Empire Bass Club had a tournament last Saturday June 11th and the results are as follows.1st.place with 20.05lbs(6.7lb big fish)was the team of Tage Wert & Brandon Service. 2nd. place with 15.02lbs.(7.08lb. big fish) was the team of Mark Urrizola & Rick Camilleri. 3rd. place with 14.41lbs.(5.08 big fish) was the team of David Boettger & John Hatfield. 4th place with 11.52lbs.(4.75lb. big fish)was myself and Craig Stewart.
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: With windy conditions most of the day all of the above winners caught there fish throwing crankbaits(speed traps & DD14 red crawdad),spinnerbaits(white and white/chartreuse),buzzbaits,and top water(Zara Spooks).Most of the fish were caught shallow(10 ft. or less) around wood and grass in the creek arms and around rocks on main lake points.

Monday, June 13th, 2005

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Does anyone know anything about catfishing in lake sonoma. Any information wll help like favorite spots, what creeks, types of bait. if you have any information please email me. Thanks in advance.
    City: windsor

    Tips: N/A

Thursday, June 9th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 64-68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: June 7th-10th fishing trip to Lake Sonoma-
    Just a quick FYI. Went camping/fishing for three days with great success
    for some nice 2 to 3.5lb Smallmouth, and some consistently big, healthy
    Largemouth. Found most action in Warm Springs arm. It rained and drizzled
    the whole time, stirring up the nutrients and consequently the bait.
    Techniques were either spotting and casting to schools of bait on the
    surface with hard/soft shad imitations ( Rapalas, Sassy Shads, Storm
    swimbaits, etc.) or lighting up suspended bait on the 'finder and then
    getting to the baitball with a countdown or rattletrap, and WHOOEEE! They
    were acting like stripers, chasing under and around the bait on the top and
    down at 15-20ft, mostly in about 50ft depth. Biggest Bucketmouth weighed in
    at 10.25lbs according to the bogagrip, with 3 in the 4-5 lb range, and
    LOTS of 2-3 pounders. Lot of smallies in the mix too. Tried jig n'craws,
    hawgs and Senkos, without much luck. Stuck w/ shad patterns and all was
    well. Bite was still going strong when I left.

    Good fishing to you-
    AB
    City: San Anselmo

    Tips: best bite early and late.

Thursday, June 2nd, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Redwood Empire Bass Club will meet on June 8th at 7p.m. at the Rohnert Park Community Center at the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder Lane. Our guest speaker will be Jimm Munk and we welcome boaters and non boaters to attend the meeting and fish our club tournaments.The next tournament will be on June 11th at Lake Sonoma. Log onto www.rebc.net or call me at 568-1277.
    City: Santa Rosa

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Beautiful lake filled with ugly people. First time fishing the lake. Was not aware of all the tension surrounding the caucasions and asians. Hate to say this, but the locals here are sure rude to outsiders. Last I checked lake sonoma was a public lake. Can't seem to understand why the locals believe they own the lake. People here seem to be very disgusted at the sight of an asian fisherman. Other than the awkward feeling, the fishing good.

    Got on the water at about 6 pm. Caught about 16 bass up to 5 lbs. Quality fish were caught in 15-20 ft. Smaller ones caught in shallows. Caught fish on senkos, and dropshot.
    City: San Francisco

    Tips: Fish ledges for quality fish and flats for fun.

Sunday, May 22nd, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: got 5 from shore near water skiers. caught one that looked like a redfish less the black dot. jigs were the ticket around wood cover.

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

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    Water Temp: 46-49

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: As you may have read in the report my father put out we had a tough day with the bite.It was my first time on the lake so I was pretty pumped.We started at the marina. Twenty five minutes after we started i hooked into one and when that happened i thought we had a good day to look at.But i was wrong it wasn't a nother 5 hours til we got a bite.My dad hooked one.Then i hooked one then he caught are last fish of the day.Usually iget upset when we have a tough day like that but that day was different.I was just happy to spend a day on the lake with my father.
    City: Ukiah

    Tips: The fish hat i hooked were in 15-20 feet of water,using robo worms.

Thursday, May 19th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Need tips on what to through at lake Sonoma going up there this weekend on sunday and dont know what to throw.Went last weekend and caught a 3-3.5 on drop shot but that was about it.
    City: windsor

    Tips: What type of top water should I take. Would a zara spook work?

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

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    Water Temp: cool, warming u

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: although I didn't fish in Sonoma, CA the lake list consists of all the cities, yep, this webmaster is on top of it. I guess they don't even read it. goy on te lake at daybreak, little traffic, guess everyone had to work. headed to cherry creek & did some topwater. threw zaras & had 5 hook-ups to 3 1/2 #. water was calm & no wind. topwater stopped as sun started to rise. switched to spinbaits, had 1 hit & started throwing senkos in the grassbeds. caught & released 5 more up to 4 # with 4 of them big fat females. fished till 10 & headed home to get to SBC Park to watch the Pirates beat the giants. it was a nice day. enjoy life, before you can't.
    City: gg bridge X san mateo

    Tips: get on the lake early for topwater action, then switch to senkos!

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Anyone ever caught Crappie out of this lake? Where's a good spot to catch them.
    City: San Mateo

Friday, May 6th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: HAVE BEEN A BERTH-HOLDER SINCE 98.LOVE TO FISH..BROUGHT BOAT UP FOR SEASON,CAMPED IN YORTY CREEK ARM..GOT CAUGHT IN 20 + HR'S OF RAIN..UNDER A 8 BY 10 QUICKSHADE WITH JUS'T ME IN MY WIFE..THAT WAS FUN...THEN TENT LEAKED ..YAHOO MORE FUN...CAUGHT CRAPPIE 14 TO 16 INCH..I HAVE PHOTO'S..POURING DOWN RAIN..3 FT..MINNOW'S ON SLIP BOBBER'S..
    City: SAN RAFAEL

    Tips: FISH THE BACK COVE'S IF YOUR LOOKING FOR CRAPPIE...BASS ON BANK'S,FISH ZIPPER'S ,TROLLING NOTHING TRYED EVERYTHING,

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    Water Temp: 50-55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: beside bad fishing, whomever compiled lake list, should better take a good look at what the lake names should be. with cold front moving in & water levels down about 10 feet, fishing was tough. water is so clear, you can see the bad boys swimming around, you know they can see you! once rain started, bite was on, tons of dinks, all was catch & released with a few in the 3-4 pounds category. Rain stopped & was bite.
    City: x gg & sm bridges

    Tips: make super long casts with Senkos, don't let them see ya!

Sunday, May 1st, 2005

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    Water Temp: 61-65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out sunday with Steve and Tiger trying to find some bigger fish. Started the morning in Cherry seeing if the fish were deep or not no luck. Moved closer to shore and Tiger started with a Senko fish 1.5 and Steve followed with a nice 4.9 (spawned out)in very shallow water. I got a 4.2 (also spawned out)still on Senkos. Tiger and I each got a Jig fish but no real size. Moved to North end of lake but no real luck, tried Yorty and picked up a few better ones. Steve did well with a Chompers super sinker and we went back to cherry for some more. finished till 5:30 with 19 fish Steve took the honors with big fish and 7 fish. Best 5 went 16.6 lbs. No rain and sun much of the day.
    City: Pacifica

    Tips: Majority of the fish came on senko / helix. Some on Drop shot and the salty sinker as well as a couple on Jigs nothing on blades or crank bait. More luck on Grass than on trees/structure. Saw several fish in shallows but none locked on beds, probably too late for that. Did not fish the south end not sure of water temp or spawn status that direction. Did see some fish chasing bait occasionally.

Sunday, April 24th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 58-62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished dry creek and saw hundreds of fish back where the creek comes in. got a hit on the fluke but nothing else till we got further away from the creek. saw a lot of bedding males and some red tails. in cherry fish were looking and towards the sunset the females came to the beds. we got a lot of small males and a 4,4.2 and 4.7 almost at dark, ended up with 31 fish and a couple of big panfish a blk crappie goin 1.3.
    City: Pacifica,CA

    Tips: dropshot works, use it with cut tails and roboworms. dont let the bedding fish see you unless it is a single male on a bed

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 60-63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Could not help myself, still had to go fishing, but same conditions for me as last time. Saw no beds anywhere, saw some larger bass roaming areas with deeper water, stayed in warms springs arm this time, looks great, tough fishing for all we talked with, but we did catch some, and a few smallmouths,

Monday, April 11th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Bass could be anywhere, except just shallow, all related to drop offs, no concentration, must travel. Some caught drop shotting trees in 12+ ft water, some in grass. To slow for me, will wait for the spawn.
    City: S.R.

    Tips: Wait unless you just want to be on the water for the day.

Sunday, April 10th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished on Sunday. Didn't find any pattern. Hooked six fish to four pounds, drop shotting, and using senkos and brush hogs in the Dry Creek Arm. Had to search for the fish which came in groups from water that had totally different structure.
    City: Novato

Saturday, April 2nd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 57-61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Worked Yorty Creek Area for 6 hours, caught 20 fish to 4 lbs. Water temperature was warmer in outer portion of creek and action was much more consistent in that area. Senkos along submurged grass beds was the hot ticket.
    City: Sebastopol

    Tips: Look for warm water areas in outer area of feeder creeks.