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Wednesday, April 10th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: ished warm springs area and caught both smallmouth and largemouth on crawdad cranks,and senko's,brush hogs.great day on the lake.largest 3lbs smallmouth.
    City: Oakland

    Tips: 2t to 15t,cranks caught ish in deeper water

Thursday, April 4th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got up to the lake at about 3:30 this aternoon. got a ew bites but couldn't hook anything or the irst couple hours. then i switched to a 4" watermelon/red lake worm carolina rigged. Ater two casts, had a nice 4.2 largemouth hammer it on the descent in a secondary cove. Ater i took it o the scale and put it back, i rerigged, and had another big male hit it in almost the exact same spot. this one was 3.73 but deinately had some ight in him. I had to leave right ater that, but in all it was a pretty good trip to the lake. very ew boaters, and there was little to no wind which i had yet to experience here.
    City: Rohnert Park

    Tips: try carolina rigged plastics. watermelon/red lake worked or me, but i am sure other colors would work. both were caught in about 15'. keep o the bedding ish!

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: On the water at nine--ished Yorty and back to dam. Two ish --one smallmouth and one large--or 5 hours eort. Used plastics and had little ish bites, but no connect. Wind was actor in blowing my 165 Tracker around. Pretty discouraging. Checking with other anglers, the rusults were similar except or a report o 20 small ish on rapallas.
    City: Rohnert Park

    Tips: I wish I knew!!

Sunday, March 31st, 2002

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    Water Temp: 58-60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: calm waters in the morning with air ishing. used a FX worm on a tx as well caralina and produced a total o 5 ish. any plastic seemed to work and no particular water depth was established. the aternoon the bite was over and then the wind started to pick up.ish quality was between 1-2 lbs but the weather was great.
    City: s

Saturday, March 30th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished a cove just North o Yorty Creek. Caught 3 2lb largemouth in 5-10 Ft o water. Was at the back o the cove near a waterall using live minnows.
    City: Santa Rosa

Friday, March 29th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 55 to 69 degree

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Water temp cool in early morning, but warmed to 69 degrees in back o protected coves in aternoon! Fished the Warm Springs area. Got ish on a variety o baits: Duh jigs, 5" Senko, 4" Senko (both C-Rigged & Weightless), drop-shot & split shot mini lizard. Browns & Watermelon were best colors. Caught about 18 ish, most around 2 lbs. A couple to about 3 lbs. Fish were deeper early, but by mid aternoon they were stacked in the back o shallow coves. We'd hook one, and several would ollow her out. Great day on the water with terriic weather.
    City: Bay Point

    Tips: Fish the brush in the secondary coves. Didn't get any crank, spinner bait or rip ish.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: ished rom 1:30pm to 6pm,caught 7-smallmouth,1-largemouth all on crawdad crank baits in 10 to 15 t o water.the ish were between 16 and 18 inch's,about 2 1/2 pounds each.it was a great day.
    City: oakland

    Tips: ish underwater rock piles

Saturday, March 23rd, 2002

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club (SCBBBC) held its second tourney o the year at Yorty Creek and a good tourney it was! 27 braved the mix o rain and sun and brought in some good ish. Winning weight was 18.01 lbs and included ish o 4.95, 4.91 and 4.61 lbs. Another ish o 4.74 lbs was landed including many in the 3 lb range along with 7 limits. Fish were caught on almost every lure and technique including jerkbaits, spinnerbaits, crankbaits, jigs, worms, senkos, etc. A total o 68 ish were brought to the scale with exactly a 2.00 lb average.For more inormation go to http://www.scbbbc.homestead.com and checkout the orum too!
    City: San Francisco

    Tips: Transistion points were the key to bigger ish along with numbers.

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    Water Temp: 53-56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Another ine numbers day at Sonoma. I brought 19 largemouth to the boat. Had over 25 bites. Nothing large - all 1-2 plus pounds. Most were 10-15 eet. Fished Yorty, Cherry, and Warm Springs. Yorty good, Cherry slow, Warm Springs very good. On one point in Warm Springs I caught 6 in about 10 minutes. I got the most bites during periods o rain and wind, not during brie clear spells.
    City: Petaluma

    Tips: Spider grubs on ootball lead heads twitching across the bottom. Fish were holding loose to wood and on rocky points.

Friday, March 22nd, 2002

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: A buddy and I are planning to work Sonoma this weekend, and I was wondering what is the best way to ish them in rain? Also, what eect does rain have on Bass? Email me any answer...PLEASE!Thanks in advance.J.
    City: Santa Rosa

Thursday, March 21st, 2002

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    Water Temp: 53 to 55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started early in Yorty creek. Fished breaks to 20 eet. Caught nothing. Fished misc. points to Cherry creek. On the way back we stopped at a point outside o Cherry and stuck three ish. The ish came on back to back casts in 15 to 20 eet. The irst was 3lbs. the 2nd was 4lbs. It was tough through out the day. The last ish was 1-14. All were caught on carolina rigs with brush hogs.
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: SLOW!!!

Tuesday, March 19th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fish the 21st Annual Fairield/Suisun Bass Reapers Open.On Beryessa April 13, 2002Entry ee $100 includes $20 Big Fish Pool per team. 80% pay back, yes 80% pay back to 20% o ield.Great rael and un. For more ino go to our main web page http://www.geocities.com/bassreapers, Once on the site click on "The Bass Reapers 21st Annual Open Team Tournament" . This will take you to a print orm or the open tournament.
    City: Fairield

Monday, March 18th, 2002

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    Water Temp: joe

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I just am checking i HTML tags work here
    City: joe

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    Water Temp: 48-52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Sonoma on Monday. Beautiul day (as opposed to Clear Lake on Saturday--biblical sized winds and waves). Went straight back to the Warm Springs side, looking or likely spawning spots, then ishing the drop-os nearby. Caught two right o the bat between 7:00 and 7:30 on a Staysee in about 8 eet o water. Then the rip bite died, so I threw a C-rig with a Strike King giant tube craw in watermelon green. Nothin' till about noon, then WHAM! It was like turning on a switch. Either I just ound the right spot or the ish just decided it was meal time, but or the next 2 1/2 hours, I couldn't miss. Caught 6, missed 2, lots more bites. Boated a total o 8 or the day, but most o them came close together. Great day ishin'! I caught them all on the same piece o plastic, too. Got my money's worth.
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: I'm sure there's lots o ways to catch these critters, but looking or gently sloping points, then ishing the drop-os adjacent to them with a SLOW C-rig worked or me once the bite turned on. Some o the ish came rom deep enough to have to pop, so keep a needle handy.

Tuesday, March 5th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished in a loat tube at Yorty Creek rom 9:30am to 1pm and caught 5 bass. Two were 3lb and 2lb, the others were undersized at about 11 inches. Had several other takes and bites. Used a carolina rig with a variety o worms and colors - it didn't seem to matter, they were biting everything, although I used mainly worms with chartreuse tails on account o the heavy overcast. Pretty good pre-spawn action!
    City: San Francisco

    Tips: Stick close to the brush. Bites are just subtle tap-tap-taps.

Monday, March 4th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: got out there at about 9 on sunday and it was a nice morning, wish i got out there sooner though. anyways imade aew runs at all the points and good lookin structure i could ind, but nothing. inally at like 11:15 i was using a baby brush hog, i wasnt even paying attention i got a huge bite, that starteled me, it turned out to be a nice 3 pounder. tried that cove or alittle longer, but nothing. Everyones saying its hella good, so ill be up there next weekend earlier.

    Tips: slow down, use sot plastics and get out there.

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    Water Temp: 51-53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started in cherry very early working plastics with my buddy Tony, got hit right o the bat. Went to the spinner got nailed on the 2nd cast, appeared to be at least 6 to 8 lbs snap my line quickly. Suck. Tony landed a nice 2lber shortly ater. Very cold this morning but it heated up a little in the aternoon. 8 ish in all, best 5 would have been around 12lbs. Big ish was 3.1 lbs. Not to many people catching alot o ish but every but had a ish. Toni was dangling his worm o the side o the boat when a nice steelhead nailed it. Scared the #$!* out o the both o us!!! Never made it in the boat!!!!!!!!
    City: santa rosa

    Tips: Slow down!!!!!!!!!!!1

Saturday, March 2nd, 2002

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    Water Temp: 53/56

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hit the lake (ramp) about 8:00am Had to rewire Ign. systemto coils (TIP MAKE SURE BOAT RUNS BEFORE LEAVING FOR LAKE)Anyway ished north at the water all two BASS 2#/1.7#hit Cherry Creek points & drop os @ base o tree stumpstwo more 2/3# and Shirley caught one Crapie 2.6# mostly used small minnow plastics. Switched to FLW Crawwith small split shot in creek inlet Bammm Shirley's irstSTEELHEAD 26" NEW at Bass Fishing Any Tip's rom localLake Sonoma isherman (or women) THANKS
    City: Healdsburg

    Tips: GET THOSE FISHING BOATS&MOTORS READY BEFORE HAND

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    Water Temp: 53-59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Sonoma was on. My buddy and I landed 21 and had at least 30 bites. Size 1-2.7lbs. Most o the ish were in less than 15 eet and we got a bunch in the 3-8 oot range. Caught ish in Yorty, Cherry, and Warm Springs. Hits were usually pretty solid and the ish were hot. Weighed a 9.8 or a loat tuber without a scale. Beautiul ish. Too bad he planned to take it home. We need more ish in the lake like that one, and the spawn is just around the corner. The larger the ish the more important it is to return it to the water so that it can spawn and create more particularly well adapted specimens that are un to catch!
    City: Petaluma

    Tips: Bottom hugging crawdad imitators - jigs, plastics in browns and greens. Wood was good though not required.

Friday, February 22nd, 2002

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    Water Temp: 52.7

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Put in about 9:30am.Fishing was ok. seen ish and put ish in the boat.3, 3.8 4.5 lots one over 7lbs.all my ish in 6FT.
    City: Fulton

    Tips: SLOW Down