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Saturday, March 22nd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 56-57

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: got to the lake at 8:00a.m. started to cherry creek lttle rain but ishing was excellent.brother in-law caught the irst ish. a little over 12inch.stayed in cherry creek till noon and ended catching 12 bass rom 1-6lbs. used senko and spinner bait.

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Back agin or another season. Started out late this year. Shouldve been ishing 3 weeks ago. Blame it on all the rain! Went it early am, very oggy morning. Quite a ew boats already on the water.We tried all the hotspots on the lake starting with Yorty creek. We threw yellow spinnerbaits to no avail, switched to senkos & inally got some hookups, nothing to brag about, in act noone will ever see these ish as they were released as ast as they were unhooked. The digital camera is still at zero. Best was 3 lbs. skinny & very pale. Need a week o hot weather. Going to skip a couple o weeks, next week going to hunt a private ranch or the opener o Turkey season, 2nd week going down to La Paz or some R&R! Lake is super ull & really too cold yet! I think with the rising levels the ront that's coming in pushed ish deeper into a no action mode.
    City: san rancisco

    Tips: Fish really slow with worms & ix your up house & wait til it gets warmer! Plus gas is way too high

Friday, March 21st, 2003

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hit the water about 8 am went directley to my hot spot in cherry and banged the irst keeper on zipper jr. in about 2 t. o water. My partner also got on the board earley with a couple o spinerbait ish.about an hour later i swith to small speed trap and nailed a nice 3.5 lber.my budy still with his spinerbait kept on putting in the boat,but nothing huge.From cherry we worked backed twards the dam and over to the warm springs area picking up ish all the way.Once we got to our spot in warm springs we the action picker up a hal click and we both inished the day with 12 largeies and 1 smallie each. What a day.Will be back in May or our anual riendship tourney among our best riends.
    City: REDWOOD CITY

    Tips: make alot o casts.stick with the basic stu.

Tuesday, March 11th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 56-58+

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Put on a warm shirt,grabed two sets o rain gear and made my very irst trip ever to this pint size lake or some ish'n and a turkey scout(got a draw or end o a month). Got out o the truck,(rain all day) asked a guy which way i should go he pointed to what i believed to be north? Fished or about an hour nothing. Then, about 8am got bit, and it never really let up, no big'uns, just one every 10-15 minutes or so. Jigs worked best(brown) brushhogs also(pumk).Carolina (4 inch worm) would get bit every time but too many dinks. Fish were rom 1 oot to 20 eet must 5-10 oot area. Look or rocks, muddy banks had no ish grass areas OK. Had no luck on hard baits or spinnerbaits. Didn't put a senko in the water. why? Don't know.(to much wind. thats my story) Quit at 2 or so with 15+ 1/2 to 2.5. Gonna take an extra day during turkey season to ish this lake again. Hope to see better ish then. Other wise, what a cool little lake, so don't tell any one.

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    Water Temp: 56ish

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The lake is on right now. It's not diicult to get a limit....or two or three. By the looks o other reports, just about anything will work i you're in the right areas. As or me, I've been tossing reaction baits on main lake points and pre-spawn staging areas and having a great time. Lots o smallies in the mix, some o decent size (2-3lbs).
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: Make hay while the sun shines. You can't get ish i you don't get out there. Grab a kid or someone without access to a boat and go get 'em!

Sunday, March 9th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We ished up the Cherry Creek arm o the lake on Saturday the 8th o March. The water was perect or color and temperature. Visibility down to about two or three eet. Most o our ish were tight in brush cover. Our ish were mostly in the shade

Wednesday, March 5th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 53 to 57

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Landed our ish rom 1 lb. to 3.5 lbs. Big one caught by my 4 y/o son. Great job Michael! Fish were shallow in small coves in lake arms. Caught them using Senkos, Baby Brush Hogs, Pig-N-Jig( black and blue) and Spider jig. Water temp still needs to warm up a bit. (53-57 degrees)God Bless, Jon
    City: San Bruno

Tuesday, March 4th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 58 degres

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Spent a very productive day on the lake, Sunday and again yesterday (03/04). Sunday had 12 ish, best 5 going 18.87#, largest 6.32#. Fish came on a 6" worm rigged with brass and glass. Fish came orm on shore out to 20 eet. Had to eed the bait to them ater they tapped it. Yesterday the ish were more aggressive and hit the worm, spinner baits and jigs. A lot o the ish were white, telling me they had just moved up out o deep water. Best 5 ish went 20.10#.
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: Locate lats where deep water is close by. Work your baits slow.

Monday, March 3rd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 51.5-53.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: On the water at 7:30am. Shot up to Cherry creek. Found ish in 1-3eet o water next to weeds or brush, ish went 2.5lb. to 3.5lb. Went into Yorty Creek and ound ish there also in 1-3eet and next to grass or brush. Caught 7 ish, best 5 were 15.4lbs. Caught all my ish on a 1/2 ounce chart/white spinnerbait with a number 7 single gold blade.
    City: Sebastopol

Sunday, March 2nd, 2003

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: i got on the water at about 9, drove to warm springs. my dad and i ished black jigs the whole time, didnt get nothin. 2 bites, thats it. I tried a senko and a spnnerbait, and nothing. i dont know how everyones catchin all these dam ish. When i was up there,no ones was catchin anything. my Guess is that warm springs is too cold, but i dotn know, anything will help.
    City: joisdhoisadh

    Tips: ish slow, ish are movin up or spawn. catch and release only, good luck.

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    Water Temp: 60 degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: On water at 10 A.M.. Tubed to a steep bank with brush. Worked a 6" worm rigged braa and glass. Got bite, had to give some slack line or the ish to take the bait in. Nice 2 1/2# ish. Worked area with an casts, picked up 2 more ish about the same size. Moved up on a saddle with grass and brush. Made serveral casts and inally got a tick. The emale was real white telling me it had just moved up rom deep water. She went 4.52#. Had a total o 12 ish. Was o the water at 3:30 P.M.. Best 5 would have gone 16.42#. The lake is about to bust open.
    City: Santa Rosa, Ca.

    Tips: Fish are begining to move up and will be crusing. I you ind ish work the area well. Stay with natural colors.

Thursday, February 27th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 54-58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: launched at 8:00am and headed up to the warm springs arm to do some much needed lippin. Flipped brown jigs with brown pork and a watermelon red brush hog on trees and layed down timber. The bite was slow at irst but picked up very ast with the sun comming up. Had the irst ish o the day on and it was a nice 4lber, the bites started to roll ater that. The brush hog took several ish into the 3-4 pound range, but the big ish came on the jig n pig. Ended the day with a nice limit o 20lbs all on lippen.
    City: Geyserville

    Tips: The ish are moving into the shallow water to stage and eed thru the day. Key in on tinber and lats that have lay down wood with deep water near by. Work the jig slow and thorough. The ish will slam the bait and let you know they have it. Good luck and lipp your heart out or the big ones.

Wednesday, February 26th, 2003

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Cherry Creek today. What else is new. Cloudy all day and a ew rain showers. Got a ew taps and no takes and was starting to get a little annoyed, but the ourth tap made up or those. A nice 4lber o the lats. My uncle and mysel caught 12 ish or the day in Cherry. Kind o tough ishing or that amount o time on the water. Our best ive or around 18lbs. A lot o hits, but no takers. What that means, I don't know. Found most o our ish on this one lat near the creek channel. Where are the big ones?
    City: Petaluma

    Tips: Carolina big and small brushhogs(watermelon/red) and just keep moving around until you get one. Then slow down and ish the area thoroughly. Reaction bite not there yet until the water starts warming up.

Saturday, February 22nd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: The Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club (www.scbbbc.homestead.com) held our irst tourney o the year and an amazing 32 "tubers" came out to participate. The bite proved tough or many but it still took over 11 lbs to get into the top three with irst place getting a limit or 14.3 lbs. Fish were caught at all depths and presentations. Crankbaits, spinnerbaits, carolina rigs, jigs, and senkos produced the majority o the ish. Again, ish were caught between 1 t o water to over 30. Big ish or the tournament was 4.99 lbs with plenty more in the 4 lb class coming to the scales. Hit our website or more details!
    City: San Francisco

    Tips: Fish with what you are comortable with. I you like the backs o coves, go or it. Same deal with the outside points or i you like to ish deep or shallow. The ish are around and i you stick with a couple comortable techinques you'll catch your ish.

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The Fairield Suisun Bass Reapers are holding their 22nd annual open bass ishing tournament on April 12, 2003, At Spanish Flat Resort and Marina on Lake Berryessa. We invite all interested teams (two people) to join us. The entry ee is $100 per team and includes launch at Spanish Flat the day o the tournament. As always, the tournament proceeds will be used to complete projects such as placing structure like x-mas trees in Lake Berryessa or stocking Florida strain bass. Over the past 10 years we have purchased and planted over 20,000 o these ish. For urther details and an entry orm on the web, Go to www.geocities.com/bassreapers/open2003.htm. go to "clubs" on this site and ind the Fairield Suisun Bass Reapers, get an entry orm at Longs in Fairield, or call Curtis Beckwith (707) 448-9113 or Dean Meyers (510) 724-3660, (between 6:00 and 9:00 p.m. only please).
    City: Fairield

    Tips: Please promote your business and assist our und-raising eort by donating to the tournament rale. The majority o the unds raised or our structure and ish plants are raised through the rale. (Most o the entry ees are paid out to the ield) As each item is raled, the donor is announced. A list o rale donors is distributed to all participants. Last year we raeled o about 15 quality rods including 2 custom rod's built by Todd (o Angler'd World; thanks Todd). Participants really pay attention when a rod is being raled and we'd like more this year. I you have questions about or can assist with the rale, please call:Irving Shirley, President(707) 429-3239;

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Finally got my boat in the water early aternoon or the irst time out this year. Steve Garlo, a casting machine, caught the irst o two bass we hooked. About a 2 1/2 pounder, on a brush hog. My old stand-by, a night crawler, got me on the board with a slightly smaller bass. Both ish were in 8-10 eet o water. No more action, but a beautiul day and we were ishing!
    City: Healdsburg

    Tips: Spinner baits should have worked, but we had no luck with them. Next time...

Friday, February 21st, 2003

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    Water Temp: 53 to 59

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Caught and released our ish to 2.7# with a 4 inch Senko, and three ish using a Carolina rig and a our inch worm. Fished the Warms Springs Creek arm.
    City: Novato

Thursday, February 20th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 51-58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: For all the times I've struggled on this lake I deserve a good day. A good day it was, but unusual. On the lake at 2:00. I went back to Cherry, and early on caught a sub-2lber on a Skeet's Creature--one o those new Cyberlex baits that Terminator is marketing. I love those things. Water was murky, but a warm 56-58, and I thought they would be active back there. They weren't, really, so I decided to head to the back o Dry Creek to see what was going on. Beore I let Cherry, though, I was tossing a spinnerbait and got snagged on someone's broken line. I untangled it rom my bait and noticed it was moving. I "reeled" it in with my hands, and whatever was on the other end ought like hell. I inally got it to the side o the boat, and it broke o!! I think it was a large steelhead. I saw that it was large, but didn't get a good enough look to positively identiy it. Probably saved his little ishy lie. Dry creek was good to me. Water was clearer, but still stained, and cooler at 50-51 degrees. Same spinnerbait on the shady side, shallow and in some trees, and the line got heavy. I set the hook and reeled in a beautiul 4lbr. Sweet. Right within sight o another boater right across the channel who had been at it longer than me. Always satisying. Next cast, WHAM!! like a ton o bricks. Fought like hell, too. I reeled in a beautiul, 4lb.......squawish? Yep. Have never beore seen one in this lake. I ished or another 1/2 hour, sun going down, and tried one last spot that's been good to me in the past. A shallow toss o the spinnerbait in some brush, and.....one last 4lbr or the road. Nice ish. Nice aternoon. Weird, but nice.
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: People are stingy with real ino on this site, and I understand that. Here's a bone, though. No doubt ish can be ound deep or shallow right now on this lake. However, I've been having more success shallow. Real shallow. 1-5 eet. White spinnerbaits and Skeet's creatures (dark ones) in lie downs right up close to the bank have consistently produced nice ish or me or the last month. Thanks, Skeet, or your wonderul creature. Now, you all throw me a bone once in a while, eh?

Tuesday, February 18th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Opps I meant 2/18Fished with a ellow member today and had a great time the captain didn't catch anything, but he put Mike on some ish. Mike hooked his biggest black bass aroung 6 lbs. and long-line released his ish while I try to get my new multi-old net to untangle. Next time I will have the net put together irst. Fishing was pretty slow. We missed two other hits and Mike Landed one more. Fish were in the back o coves where the rain run-o met the lake. The temp was 52.5 in the main body and as high as 56 degrees in the creek arms. Fish were caught on green lizards 4" with black lake. We through everything at them. Two more weeks and 61 degree water and watch out. Mike thanks or the lunch we will get you another big one hooked and landed next timne.p.s. next time leave the barb on! j/k

Monday, February 10th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 51-54

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: WOW!!!This lake is in prime shape and kickin out some impressive ish. No big numbers today (8 total) but the best 5 weighed 21.49 lbs on the cul-m-rite. Two 6's help that bag. Could not buy a reaction ish or a jig ish. With the lake dropping a little we decided on working the creek channel breaks near the lats with carolina rigged lizards, brush hogs and worms. Very slow bite but nice ish. Thanks to Patrick or another great day on Sonoma. The cold nights and mornings are still keeping these water temps down.

    Tips: I think this lake will go crazy when the water temps reach back up to the 59-60 degree mark....LOOK OUT!!!!!