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Saturday, March 13th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 52 - 54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Same old thing

    Tips: Fish slow. If you burn more than 2 quarts of fuel you have moved to far from the ramp. Green six inch worms are the hot item. Jigging, what some very new rookies call

Friday, March 12th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 57-61

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Started off by heading up Yorty, Water still pretty muddy. My buddy and I threw spinnerbaits , jigs , and watermelon plastic to no avail, Landed our first fish around 11:30 am on a Root beer senko in less than 10 feet along the tree off the main lake. Went up to Mountain Spring and started to pull fish off wood in 5-10 feet. Caught 6 on Senkos and brown jig with purple trailer. Around 3pm, my buddy nailed a nice 5lb on a natrual color yum worm that was tight to the bank. Caught a couple dinks on plastic worm and reapers. All fish were tight to the bank along any type of rock.
    City: Gold River, Ca

Tuesday, March 9th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: got on lake at 9 30 caught 1 fish small saw the biggest fish of my life swim by. got out around 2 30.
    City: san bruno

Monday, March 8th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Warm Springs arm from 10 a.m. to 1. Caught only one small bass. Used drop shoting, black and brown jigs, brush hogs, and worms - no luck. Warm Springs arm is fairly clear at the top end. Muddies as you get into the larger part of the arm.
    City: Novato

Sunday, March 7th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 55 to 62

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Sunday from 7:30 to 3:00, Fished up Yorty and Cherry early, got nothin, located fished on the X-135, but could'nt get the to bite. Fished main lake, nothin, still muddy everywhere. At the end of the day went up warm springs and started throwing a brush hog right up on the shoreline, picked off 3 fish, a dink, 2.5 lber and a nice 5lb female. All fish were still white which means they had just come up from deeper water to feed. That 5 lber was a good fight, took some pics and let her go. Anyday and this lake is going to blow up, be ready for some hot fishing.
    City: Davis

    Tips: Stay persistent and try to find a pattern as early as you can in the day, Thanks Dad and Allison for a beautiful, I love you both!!
    Tight Lines and Heavy Sacks!

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    Water Temp: ???

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Test the letter "F" f F F f
    City: san bruno

Friday, March 5th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: got on the water on fri at 9am with my friend. we drove up to warm springs expecting tons of easy fish from all the reports on how good it was. well, we threw spinnerbaits all day all over standing timber. nothin. we saw other boats out there saying they wearnt getting anything. so i met this one guy saying he caught 5 on jigs off main points, so i tried a baby brush hog, and got one nice small mouth bass, didnt know there were small mouth in there. so that was it. it was a perfect day so whatever.

    Tips: i guess the water level is dropping from the lake being drained, so once it levels out and warms up, it should break lose. clear lakes the best bet now. catch and release only

Saturday, February 28th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at sunup and pulled out at noon. Weather was perect all day long

    Tips: Fish slow. I burned lest than one gallon o gassoline. Use dark colors - I used dark green (my Grey Ghost). The very sot outished my irmer baits. The very small six inch worms worked better than my larger worms - not sure why.

Saturday, February 14th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Yorty last sunday. Arrived around seven. Started up the north bank in my loat tube and picked up one keeper. I ished a perect winter area. Fish were stacked on the edge o the break in 20 to 25 eet. I picked up three on a drop shot rig. One went 4lbs. On the way back I picked up one dink and cranked up a 4.5 on a at ree shad. The limit went about 11 to 12 pounds.
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: Fished mostly drop shot, jigs, and crankbaits. SLOW...

Saturday, February 7th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 49 - 53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Today we went out with my ishing buddy, Kevin and his ishing riend, Russ. Morning was really cold but the day turned nice. Kevin and Russ know Sonoma well and put me on ish. I caught a couple o keepers early in the day thanks to my "guide" Kevin. I keep telling him that when he's the guide, he doesn't have to catch any ish, but he is not convinced and wants to catch a lot o ish too! Guess that's why we need our ishing buddies to keep some rivalry and competition in the mix. I caught some ish with a Yamamoto Hula Grub and others with my "secret" lure (sorry guys, its too new to share). Fish are holding between 10' and 20' o points with a sharp drop o. Check out the points and you can catch them i you ish very slo-o-o-wly!Good ishing!Ciau
    City: Antioch

    Tips: Natural colors work - smoke, browns, etc. but ish it slo-o-o-o-o-o-wly

Friday, January 30th, 2004

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: use texas rigged/carolina rigg 4" to 6" magic worms. they are magic.
    City: sonoma

Saturday, January 24th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Water is crearing to a nice stained green. Drop shotted a brown jig most o the say. Fish aren't real active yet, but managed 4, w/ the largest 4 lbs.
    City: Santa Rosa

Saturday, January 17th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 50-53

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: The Contra Costa Bass Club had their TOC Today. Although most o the members have little experence with this lake it was a nice change. The bite was tough or most o us with just 2 limits or 20 guys. The key was to ind the rock and wood in 20-45 t. Most bites came on jigs and a majority o the ish were biting green type baits, (ie. watermellon, greenpumpkin). For some reason our winner said that i he ished with brown in his jigs or spider grubs he didn't get bit.
    City: Concord

Thursday, January 8th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished sonoma rom sun up til noon only one small keeper. Wierd thing was i was at my little honey hole right as the sun broke the water and the bass went on a crazy top water buet. This time o year I had no top water in the boat but i threw out my blade and hooked up instantly and lost a ew others. With the water temp at 49 I've never seen a top water bite in eb. I thought maybe trout until i started hooking into them. I don't know you tell me. The visibility is unreal also, I think we are going to have a great spawn.
    City: santa rosa

    Tips: Wait or the water to warm a little then it's on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday, January 7th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Redwood Empire Bass Club is welcoming new members both boaters and non boaters to fish our club tournaments. Our first meeting of the year will be on Wednesday January 12th at the Rohnert Park Community Center on the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway And Snyder Lane at 7p.m. Our first tournament will be at Berryessa on January 22nd and next month on Lake Sonoma on Febuary 26th. Log on to www.rebc.net for more details.
    City: Santa Rosa

Thursday, January 1st, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: went out around 5:00am decided to go fishing for some bass I went to the south side of the lake started fishing around 7:45am I had no bites I headrd some fish jumpin and i looked back they looked diffrent the any fish i have seen. I casted out a crankbait on the third cast i felt my rod bend i set the hook and the fish started to pull drag out for a couple of min. it took 15 min. to bring in, it was a weird fish when i got to the dock i asked around to see what it was they said it was a sturgeon it weight 10.6 pouunds they said they were geting reports aof sturgeon caught but they didn't belive it until know. Their really is sturgeon out their who knows what else could be out their.

    Tips: fish the trees

Saturday, December 27th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 50 to 55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: We got on the lake at about 8:30am and roze our butts o. Caught 2 steelhead,on a tube and senko,1.9 largemouth and a dink spotted bass. The day was slow ,but it was a nice day on the lake.
    City: Paciica

    Tips: dropshot with dark colors

Saturday, December 13th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished all day or 1 ish caught on a pumpkin baby brush hog. Most o the ish being caught I'm told were on jigs around wood.
    City: Rohnert Park

    Tips: jigs, jigs and more jigs.

Saturday, December 6th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 55-57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Lots o og, rain and wind today. Water very clear in most areas. It was a good quality bass ishing day or the most part.Fished points with wood and trees. Splitshot and dropshot were winners with Wes Sheehy's Killer Worms in gray ghost. The ish went rom three to just over our pounds. No dinks. Would have been nicer i there wasn't so much wind. A pict rom the trip.http://www.sonic.net/sheehy/FishingFolder/Recent_Photos_Folder/RECENT_PHOTOS_PAGE.htm
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: Don't give up.Fish hit rom 10am until 1pm.

Friday, November 21st, 2003

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: All you need to throw up there is a jig and pork. I caught some nice ish using the jig. All were caught shallow. No more than 15 eet. My 5 best ish weighed in at about 22lbs(7,5,4.5,3,3). All caught on or near wood. I you ind one, there should be more. Be patient and ish that jig really slow. You can't beat a jig this time o year whether it's sunny or cloudy. The best part about it(the jig) is that you can eliminate all those other rods and know you're gonna get quality ish with the jig. One rod and one bait. I love it. D.B.COOPER
    City: Petaluma

    Tips: 1/2oz brown and orange Skinny Bear Bass jig(ootball head) with brown Super Pork(senior). You need to slow down and get it in your head that you are looking or quality bites. At some point during the day you're gonna run into them and get hammered just like I did. Don't give up on the jig. Thank you Scott Green. D.B.COOPER