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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 56 degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Bass are holding in 30 to 60 eet o water. Use spoons and plastics, mainly grubs. Steelhead troll with leadcore in the 15 to 30 oot range on assorted needle ish, and kastmasters.
    City: Santa Rosa

Sunday, October 15th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: well it was pretty tough on sunday.Only managed three bites with one o those beinglanded. had teo bites and one ish on a drop shot with seducer drop shot worm. had on more bite onyamamoto spider jig. Fish were deep 15-40. I belive that the cold air had something to do with the poorishing. Fished creek chanels up in cherry then ran down and ished some rock piles in the main bodygood luck to all those who ish this lake. Dress warm runing up to cherry in the ranger in the morningelt like i was eating ice cream to ast. I any body has any ino on whats happening at Clear lake or Folsomei would appeciate an e mail. good luck

    Tips: Fish deep or now when the weather stabelizes look or the trap bitein the creeks to pick up. should have gone duck hunting!

Monday, October 9th, 2000

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went ishing twice in the last two weeks. Caught two smallmouth that were 2 1/4 and 2#'s. Caught one other short smallmouth. Also caught seven other largemouth bass. They were all less than 2#'s each. Lots o small ish around, but the big ones were hard to ind. Caught most o the ish on topwater.
    City: Santa Rosa

Saturday, September 30th, 2000

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: well we started throwing topwater caught a small one by the boat docks.decided to head to cherry creek caught 3 on spinner baits o the water by 12:00.
    City: novato

Monday, September 11th, 2000

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went ishing two days last week. The irst day caught one ish on topwater and had several other boils. Then switched to plastics and caught three others. Overall, pretty slow. The second day we got on the lake beore daylight. Fished top water but did not even get a bite. Once the sun came out we ished plastic worms in about thirty eet o water. Caught six ish, all small. We missed about ten others. The ish were so small, they were biting the tails o the plastic worms and not getting hooked. Probably going to try again this week.
    City: Santa Rosa

Saturday, September 9th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got out about 7 a.m.got one on a orange speed trap then swithched to a Zoom Big Dead Ringer and caught 6 more nothing big . Biggest was about 2lbs. o the water by 12.
    City: San Bruno

    Tips: no real pattern caught ish shallow and deep to about 35'

Monday, September 4th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Another good day a Sonoma. My riend Don & I caught about 10 bass up to 2.5 lbs. Not very big, but good action. All the action came beore noon so get there early. Don started with 3 ish on a spook, no hits on my popper so o with the popper and on with a spook. The top water action continued until the sun came out. We continued to ish the same weed lines with senkos and worms and a couple ish came on crank baits.
    City: Rohnert Park

    Tips: Top water action is still good early in the morning, then switch to senkos or worms around the weeds. Use shad patterns.

Saturday, July 29th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went night ishing until 1:00 am. Caught 2 @ 2# just beore dark on a brush hog. The wasn't any moon so it was very dark and the bite was slooow.
    City: Rohnert Park

    Tips: I night ishing, use a spot light while moving. Try main lake areas and rock piles.

Sunday, July 23rd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rom 9:30am-11:30am beore taking the kids tubing. Used spider jig and crank bait along main lake, rocky areas. Caught 1 @ 1.5 lbs on the crank. Had several bites on the jig down 15'.
    City: Rohnert Park

    Tips: Try medium running cranks around rocky points, jigs or plastics. Typical summer pattern.

Thursday, July 20th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The bass our realy active and you should be there in the morning and in the morning i yous topwater and then when the bit goes o then you move to the lats and ish there with plastics. You gotta get it right on the bank and slowly retreve it.
    City: Healdsburg

    Tips: what i use is a rubber worm and topwater baits and when your using the topwater baits i you get a bite and you miss then you lip it right back were you got that strike and i geurinte that you will get him that time.

Tuesday, July 18th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 74-77

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went camping at Sonoma last week. Did some ishing with the kids. Found tons o bluegill to keep the kids happy. Picked up three largemouth bass ishing worms in 20 t o water. Bass were holding near drop os in deep water around standing timber. All three ish took 4" and 6" dark color worms T rigged with a 1/4 oz sinker.
    City: San Ramon

    Tips: Purple or other dark color worms. Let it sink and slowly crawl on the bottom. Hits are distinct taps! I you hit a tree limb, just pull it over and let it all straight down the other side.

Sunday, July 9th, 2000

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught 4, 12inch bass during a ive hour period. Caught 1, small blugill. Using small plastic worms o main lake points. Lots o water traic!
    City: Sonoma

Wednesday, July 5th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: This is a test o the automatic report cgi
    City: San Jose

    Tips: lets hope it works

Friday, June 23rd, 2000

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    Water Temp: around 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Tough bite today! There's too many o those darn jet ski's and water ski's buzzing around. Mostly in the main body. The only ish I caught was back up in the arms where the ish can't get spooked too much. Another big problem is people keeping bass. This lake get's a lot o ishing presure. The reason why you rarely here o people catching lunkers out o this lake is because the bass don't get a chance to get very big. The only ew bass that I did catch today were 10"-14". All on deeper diving cranks.
    City: Rohnert Park

    Tips: I people released bass more in this lake, and gave them a chance to get big, this could turn into a good lunker bass lake. Because there are a lot o ish in this lake, but they just need a chance to grow!!!

Monday, June 5th, 2000

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Good
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: Using worm hooks in the tails o bait ish rom the Dry Creek deli produces subtle strikes. But the ight is on or a ive minute ride with ultra light tackle. Large night crawlers work well too but only in the early morning and late evening. Skunk Creek is hot and so is the upper west end.

Friday, May 19th, 2000

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well the ishing wasn't nearly as good as it was 2 weeks ago. The weather was very hot, which may have had something to do with it. Alot o the places we ound ish at last time were not nearly as lively. From 2pm-8pm I caught 8 ish or a whopping grand total o probably 6 or 7lbs.....on a mix o blades, zippers, and lukes. I also lost a couple others, including the "lunker" o the day, which was about 2lbs! A disappointing day, but it sure as hell beats sitting around the house on a nice day!
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: Bring your patience and alot o cold drinks!!

Wednesday, May 17th, 2000

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    Water Temp: unknow

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: A riend and I went out early in the morning and got threesmall bass to strike on blue and silver rattle traps, theyseem to shut o around 9:00 am and we never got and other strike'let about 1:30.
    City: occidental

    Tips: rattle traps seemed to work early but it seems very slow there.

Sunday, May 7th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 62-64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Had a tournament and was expecting a solid bite rom past reports but we experienced the opposite. The bite was tough at best. Caught tons o runts but had a tough time inding quality ish. I guess with a barametric pressure drop that could explain the great bite earlier this week. We had rain most o the day and a little wind. Even though I won the tournament getting lucky inding a spawning par o ish the others in the livewell were little guys so nothing to write home about. The bite could only get better at this point. Sonoma is a beautiul lake to take the amily and visually the structure is incredible. I the past reports are honest then I would recommend a visit. PS I had only ished this lake once beore and caught an 8+ and a 6+ plus a ew other nice ish so I know there are some good ones in there.
    City: mtn. view

    Tips: I caught a lot o ish on Yamamoto Senkos in a light color dead sticking and got the two bed ish on jigs plus a ew other strikes as well on the jig. Good luck out there. cv

Friday, May 5th, 2000

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Me and a riend ound a solid bite on Sonoma. Got alot o small to medium ish on blades, some larger ones on lukes, 1 on a buzz, and a couple lipping. Largest was around 4lbs on a lipped zipper worm. We had a good number o ish in the 2-3lb class in the evening. Had ALOT o big 4-6lb ish chasing our lukes in a "secret" area in the evening, but none would take. Also had a 10+lber chase my bud's buzz all the way to the boat....he was shaking ater that! All together we hooked around 35, landed only 25 o them, and missed a bunch. Sonoma never lets me down in the spring!!
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: Throw blades the whole day or numbers o ish. Throw lukes or any sot jerkbait early/late or both size and numbers. During the day, try shaking worms on deep brushpiles--the ew times I did it I got bit, but I opted to toss blades instead.

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2000

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    Water Temp: unk

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Kevin & I started ishing at 5:00 a.m. the north main arm just pass the no ski markers. Tried a topwater plug with no luck. Kevin hooked his third ish on a black lizard! I changed over to a black worm and started to play catch up. Landed a nice 3lb 7oz bass! The ishing was hot until about 7am or 730am when the bite just shut down. We moved to the Yorty Creek area and got just a couple bites. moved to main arm and caugt one shaker! Finished at 10:30 a.m. Kevin had a nice ish on, but due to an overtight drag, the ish won the battle and took his purple worm! Sounds amiliar to our last trip when I did the same thing!
    City: Windsor

    Tips: Start just beore sunrise on the north bank. Dark colored lizards and worms did the trick or us.