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Saturday, October 18th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 65-67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished north end on secondary points with grass near drop-os. Boated a limit, biggest going around 4lbs. All ish came in less than 10 eet o water, all on texas rigged baby brush hogs.
    City: rohnert park

Wednesday, October 15th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished around the marina in my tube today.Lots o bait between 12' and 20' deep with big bass suspended under them in 35' to 55' o water.Broke o a bunch in 50' o water beore landing a 5. Its the biggest bass I've hit dropshotting. Got the 5, a 4 and a 3 with a bunch o 1.5 to 2 lb bass.Biggest 5 were 14.2 lbs.Also caught a 14" redear dropshotting.Not a bad day.
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: Find bait and drop 4" and 6" worms through them. Used Killer Worms in Gray Ghost made by Wes Sheehy on #4 line.

Friday, September 19th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rom 6:45 a.m. to noon. Beautiul day. Started at Yorty Creek with top water. One medium ish hit a buss bait. No other bites. At 7:30, drop shotted with several colors o robo worms. One 12" bass on a morning dawn worm. Then ished gigs, carolina rigged worms, texas rigged worms, and only one more 11" bass on a morning dawn worm. Two riends also ished today and caught three bass around 12" drop shotting. Not good - any tips? Just could not determine what they are hitting.
    City: Novato

Monday, September 15th, 2003

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went up on sat. around 5:00 and ished until about 9:30. Didn't get much or about an hour or so in the north end. Caught one that went about 4 swimming a black jig along a weedline in about 10'. Around 7:00 the bite switched on hard, and I picked up 13 ish in about a hal hour, including a 5.1 and a 5.7 on consecutive casts. All bites came o o a single, massive weed bed. Threw a shad pattern popper the whole time. Best ive went 18+.
    City: Rohnert Park

    Tips: Threw the popper to small pockets in the middle o the weeds and twitched it once or twice, then just let it sit there or 5 or 6 seconds. The last hal hour or so beore dark has been the most productive or me lately. Nothing new here, but the topwater bite is pretty good right now very early and just beore dark.

Friday, September 12th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went our with Sonoma veteran Jimmy Mac to see i we could catch a ew hogs. Typical sonoma wind throughout the day but very hot in the out there. We threw a variety at them starting at 8:45 and staying till dark. 10 ish landed nothing o size. First ish not till 11:00 motoroil chartruse worm 1.4lbs (little did we know that would be the biggest one). 11:05 a dink same bait, 11:20 1.0 on a wht/char spinnerbait. 12:25 dink spinnerbait, same thing throughout the day. More ish came ron the north end than the south. We used Blades, Cranks, Splitshot, Dropshot, T-rig, jig, jerkbait, gave them a good chance to tell us what they wanted. Their answer was Chartruse and only the dinks were talking. Fish were caught around structure and o shore a little. Better luck next time, as always it was a heck o alot better that working!!!!
    City: Paciica

Saturday, August 30th, 2003

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    Water Temp: nice

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: was there last weekend! smooth and deep is the answer! (just have un!)

    Tips: ish early and late!

Friday, August 29th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 71-74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The early morning bite has been great. Last riday I had 5 ish in one hour rom a grassy lat that totaled 15lbs. This morning my irst ish was a nice 4.4lb and ater that the wind came up but I did get a couple o 2 pounders and a couple more missed my bait. Oh, yeah I caught them all on one bait. A yellow headed blackbird buzzbait...Check em' out at Outdoor Pro Shop in Rohnert Park.
    City: Sebastopol

    Tips: Fish early and look or areas o lats next to deeper water.

Saturday, August 16th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 74-75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ished our club tourney ... bite was tough ... i had three ish or 5.78 and inished second . tourney was won by a guy with ONE ish but it was a seven plus. he said he caught three ish on his irst three casts and then didn't get another bite all day . i caught my three ish in cherry creek on a white terminater spinner bait. boat partner got skunked.. guy that caught the seven caught it split shotting a our inch brown worm ....
    City: SUNNYVALE

Wednesday, July 9th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: A short and sweet night trip to Sonoma. Only ished 9:30pm to 1:30am, but scored a 22lb 5 ish team sack with the Dominator. Big ish was a 7, ollowed by a 5.5 and a bunch o 3+. Bite was slow until about 11:30. Midnight to 1 was lots o un.
    City: Petaluma

    Tips: Brush hogs in 5-10 eet around whatever structure or cover the ish are using. Wood was better than rock last night.

Sunday, July 6th, 2003

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    Water Temp: good question

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I went up to Sonoma with my dad or our annual ishing & camping trip together. The ishing was really good considering it was a holiday weekend and the crowds were out.The unny things is, just when ya think you've got a lake igured out, it throws you a curve. In this case it worked out in my avor. I irst got on the lake saturday morning around 8am and caught one ish deep on a 6" PBJ Zipper worm then another on a Rapala Risto Rap crankbait. That was it and I stopped or lunch. I didn't expect to ind any so I was happy. That evening I went over to where I caught the crankbait ish and ound 'em chewing white tandem spinnerbaits really well. I caught 6 to 2 lbs. Not bad beore the sun went down. I stuck around to wait or the night bite but never ound it and went to bed around midnight. The next morning I got out about 6:30 and promptly caught 5 keepers to 3 lbs all on the white blade. FUN!
    City: Rohnert Park

    Tips: The ish were on the lats in Yorty creek around the island. They were anywhere where green vegetation was. Mostly the new sparse tule growth and always near a good dropo to deep water.

Friday, June 27th, 2003

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    Water Temp: nice

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: got on the water at 8am, thinkin i was gonna catch tons o bass ater all the reports iv been hearing rom dierent tackle shops and the internet, boy, was i wrong. All i caught was 1 small bass, and aew good bites. Caught it on a senko, warm springs. I think its all the location, iv ished this lake many times all in warm springs, and iv only caught like 7 ish out o here, pathetic. Can someone tell me i cherry is really better, or what im doin wrong, thanks.
    City: ksjkalsd

    Tips: sot plastics, good luck, catch and release only

Sunday, June 22nd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Stayed the weekend at a boat in site. The water was pretty clear so when the sun was up the ish were deeper. Fished the ace o the dam with 4" Senkos in grn/purple. Caught and released 3 10-12 inch smallies. Moved up to the arms and released a ew small largemouths. Lots o shad schools on surace being chased by small bass. Ater the sun went down and the moon came up started catching 2-4 lb bass in upper arm areas. Fished in 10-15 eet o water o rocky shorelines with submerged trees. Lots o small 7-8 inch Landlock salmon and trout caught as well. Used green Baby Brush Hog at night.
    City: Rohnert Park

    Tips: Stay weedless and work the thick cover. Dark green and blue colors.

Saturday, June 14th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished our local club tourney this weekend and really enjoyed a great day. Both ishing and weather were antastic, sure beat the heck out o working. Started at the dam with spooks and speedtraps and got a couple o dinks, one was an inch shorter than the spook he hit. My backseater put a limit in the boat beore I had a keeper, he was ishing speedtraps and dropshot 4" worms. The wind was pretty high there so we went up the small arm to get out o the north wind and boy, was that a good move. Ater messing around the little island or a ew ish we headed up to the second "no-wake zone" to get away rom the skiers and jet-skis we ound a stretch o bank with a row o trees 30 eet away and about 20-35 eet deep. We started dropshoting between the bank and trees and it was "on". Every pass through we caught no less than 3 ish or 5 hours straight. We had "doubles" 3 dierent times and I had my biggest ish on my last cast o the day. I let my "non-boater" run the ront or a ew hours so I could soak in the great day ishing in the sun and catching ish without any o the stress that normally comes with ishing in a tournament. I can't remember when I've had such a relaxing day while ishing a tourney. Most ish were small, 12" to 3 pounds but a lot o un anyway. I took 4th and my partner took 2nd with 10.75. The winner had a 3 ish 11.5 pound bag with big ish o 6.3 lbs. A good ish on any lake. Got it "Spooking" or bass busting on shad in the middle o lake.
    City: Ukiah

    Tips: Topwater beore the sun comes up and then get out them little bitty 4" worms with your avorite dropshot rog and have a blast.( Green pumpkin was a great color)

Saturday, June 7th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 67-73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went looking or crappie today with my good riend Wes. Found a 3# bass on my irst cast.Lots o small bass 9" to 2# all over. Also ound some bass busting shad in the coves.We ended up with close to 70 crappie and 11 bass to 5 lbs. The big bass came on a ripbait. Fished rom 07:00 tp 11:30.
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: Crappie and small bass suspended around 16' in 30' water at large cove entrances. Lots o smaller crappie ound between 8' and 16' in weeds. Barbless hooks are the way to go.

Saturday, May 31st, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took the tube up to Yorty at 0500 this morning to try out a new rod and new plastics. On my second cast to a submerged stump I got hammered by a spawned-out emale that went 9.9 on the digital. This beats my previous Sonoma personal best by about 3.5 pounds so I was pretty stoked. Got her to hit a wacky-rigged mossy mud colored Dominator by Reaction Innovations. I think that these things just came out, but they outished the old-standby o Senko's today 2 to 1. Caught ive males in the 2-4 pound range guarding beds later on the Dominator and motoroil senkos. Best ive went 21.2 and was o the water by 1030 when the bite shut o. All ish were released to be caught again.
    City: Rohnert Park

    Tips: Try out the Dominator. A guy at the Outdoor Pro Shop in R.P. turned me on to them, and rom what I saw today, the unky looking plastics work pretty good, plus they hold up a lot better than senkos. Fish early in the morning beore the sun hits the water, because when it does the bite shuts down.

Saturday, May 24th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Had a great time ishing with the Night Stalker and Dominator. It was the Dominator's irst night trip on his boat and we initiated it well. We boated 40 ish. Largest was 5.5. The Dominator had 18-19lbs or 5. There were many active 3-4lb ish. Much un was had.
    City: Petaluma

    Tips: Brush hogs, senkos, BDR's in about 10 eet ater dark

Monday, May 19th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 67-70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: wellll......today i went back to sonoma with my riendand.....in my mind i was saying to mysel let's go ish the back o the coves and the creeks because those bass have to be spawning!!!! guess what people i was wrong, those bass are all over!!1
    City: san rancisco

    Tips: throw what is realistic....use colors that meet the orage....o-yea last but not least tight lines!!!

Saturday, May 17th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Saturday rom 6 a.m. to 2 with a riend and caught several nice bass in the north end o the lake. Caught all my ish on a senkos ished slowly. My riend caught several smaller bass drop shotting a robo worm. Spoke with another angler who caught ive bass beore 7 a.m. on a white and chartreuse spinner bait. He said that once the sun hit the water, the bass quit biting.
    City: Novato

    Tips: Fish the senko slowly. Have patience.

Friday, May 16th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished early morning on the backside o the island at Island View. Caught my irst 7 pounder. See the picture at http://geocities.com/dov7/08.jpgCaught her on a Baby Brush Hog (Pumpkin).
    City: Sunny San Diego

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    Water Temp: 62-65

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Cherry Creek rom 7am to 1:30pm. pinpointing all the shallow lats. Saw 2 male bass on beds. Thru swim baits, senko's, zarra spook, drop shotted, spinnerbaits. Had one hit on the spinnerbait and one ollow-up on the swim bait. That big ull moon all night along with the eclipse had to eect those ish. The only bright spot was a couple o guys I saw hook and land about a 7lber on a spinnerbait and they released it too.
    City: Sebastopol