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Monday, February 21st, 2000

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: GREAT lake sonoma was great i cout my 5 bass 2/2/3/4/6lbscout them al on crank baits around warm spring
    City: petaluma

    Tips: silver cranks and jiges

Saturday, February 19th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 50 to 56 degree

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Our bass club out o San Francisco had a get together at Sonoma on the 19th. The bite was not great except or one member, Steve Gee, who caught his biggest bass: 10.34Lbs. on a Duh Jig (Don't know size or color or sure, I think Summer Moss 1/4 oz.). Steve was ishing Warm Springs, where the water was a little more muddy. My partner & I ished the main lake, where its a little more green color. My son & his partner went way up Warm Springs and ound clear, cool water & ish. I ished rocky points & coves w/ water alls, rom shallow to 40'. Caught 1 largemouth & smallie in about 5' to 10 ' later in the day ater the sun was out on the rocky points,ish were 1 1/2 lbs, got on 1/4 oz brown Duh jigs w/ Yammie Junebug twin tail trailers. My partner Willie got one 2lb. plus on split shot brown lizard. Steve was "the man" that day, he also caught three more or best weight by ar or the day. Sonoma should bust wide open anytime, i the weather stabilizes.
    City: Bay Point

    Tips: Fish slow and no need to get up too early.

Tuesday, February 15th, 2000

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started ishing or Bass in the morning, with little luck. Jumped on the Steelhead bandwagon and ended up 3 on and landed one 19 inch. All ish were caught o the damn in waters 80-100 t.
    City: Petaluma

    Tips: I was using 3inch neon-green spoon with a good sized weight about a oot ahead o the lure (not the best set-up...but worked). I trolled rather slow and let out about 100yards o line. All ish were hooked by the west end o the damn.

Wednesday, February 9th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 50 degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught a couple bass on brush hogs and jigs in the main body, but not too much going on. Something that I do know about is this website called alladvantage.com it actually pays you 50 cents or every hour your on the internet. you just have to look at an extra advertisement that usually see anyway. You just gotta go to the website and see or yoursel. You'll see there's no catch, and it's no gimmic. Just sign up download one quick thing and your all ready to go. Oh yeah, i you do decide to sign up type in this ID# EWC-804 This is how you can get a little more money you'll see where to type in the ID# when you sign up.
    City: Petaluma

    Tips: give it a try

Sunday, February 6th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Decent day at Sonoma.Six ish,2 at 3lbs+,3 two pounders,and the dink.Caught ish on dark colored Brushogs and skirted-grubs.Some o these ish were sitting right under the wateralls coming into the main lake out to about 28t.The ish must be up shallow eating dads.Probably won't be there tomorrow knowing Sonoma!
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: Crawdad imitations and scent???

Friday, February 4th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started o at Yorty throwing cranks at the bank, that did'nt work. So I put on a aithul grub and BAM! A atty 1 pounder. trew it again and a large and in charge 11 incher smacked my grub. Then i decided to catch a blue gill so I tied on my good ol' mini tube jig and BAM! almost pulled the rod out o my hands, it was a 3 inch bluey. then i ended the day throwing my aithul grub and nailed a 10 incher, I ought that ish or a good 4 seconds.
    City: Petaluma

    Tips: Anyone know why the bass in yorty creek are so small, and a lot o the rest o the lake. Each year you catch the same size bass, sure there'll be a decent ish here and there, but there all in that 10, 11,12, 13 inch range???

Friday, January 21st, 2000

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    Water Temp: COLD!

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished in the rain, did ok or only 3 hours, 2 bass caught onRapla Shad style with a very slow retrieve at ~15t north o the damn about a 1/2 mile on the East side. Steelhead are an option but are down rom 20-50 t. by the dam.
    City: Petaluma

    Tips: I'm using a stained color line with a light colored silver Shad lure.

Sunday, January 9th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My buddy and I ished rom 7am-2pm and only landed 2 bass. First hit a crank bait on the main lake, weighed 2.5 lbs. Second hit a 3" leach on the Warm Springs side in some trees along the shore, weighed 1lb.We ished rom top to bottom and couldn't buy a bite. We marked a lot o ish suspended o the bottom but could not entice them.
    City: Rohnert park

    Tips: Your guess is as good as mine.

Saturday, January 8th, 2000

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went on cloverdale side towards cherry creek landed 2 steelheads one about 19 inches and a 21 inch we were using lasher with a 24 inch leader threaded minnow trolling around trees about 200 yards rom shore ish inder showed alot o ish in schools rom 13 eet to 87 we had downriggers set to 11 eet most o the day 10 lb.testireline on garcia baitcaster6"trout rod 8 lb. spiderwire on shaminio sendona 4000 spinning reel 8" eagleclaw rod use dodger and 20lb leader broken back repella
    City: rohnert park

    Tips: i notice alot o ish sitting around 50 t level bottom was 87 eet and where around the trees and dropo points by the channel o the lake goodluckps these ish taste good :)

Friday, January 7th, 2000

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    Water Temp: ??????????

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I was just wondering i anyone knew where they aregetting trout and steelhead? I you know pleaseE-mail me.
    City: petaluma

Thursday, December 23rd, 1999

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Warms Springs and Cherry Creek all day (dawn to dusk). Slim pickens. Boat caught 2 or 3+. Sunny weather, no wind, clear water, even a sun bather on shore. Too bad the ishing was poor.
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: Fish deep and ish slow. Tough ishin in this weird weather.

Thursday, December 16th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Very slow, Ryan caught nada, Konrad caught uno, Bundy caught cinco. Ryan was using crankbaits all day and they did not work. Coaght the ish o iness worms. They were texas rigged and some contraption rom bassmaster magazine. It was very disapointing. The cold wind messed every thing up. Till next time, Ryan, Konrad and Bundy
    City: petaluma

    Tips: ish o the rocks near marina, caught our out o ive there.

Saturday, December 11th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We went up Saturday mourning and didnt catch anything untill the aternoon. Caught all ish on baby brush hogs. Pumpkin and Watermelon Red was working, heard about some people catching ish on jigs and speed traps. Fish were between 20 and 30 t o water. They were holding really close to the timber. we dropped the hogs right next to the trees and shook them on the bottom. Good luck,Ryan,i you have heard about anything else working e-mail me. I am also looking or a club to join that hosts tournaments. Please e-mail me i you know o any tournaments.
    City: Petaluma

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Trolled the dam at about 5' deep with a gold Kastmaster and boeated a 16" Steelhead. The lake was quiet and not crowded. Great time to go to the lake.
    City: Walnut Creek

    Tips: Use a single hook.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I went out riday the 10th... got on the water at about 8am. COOL,SUNNY AND WINDY. Not even a hit until 11:30am. With all the rain as o late the ish have dropped to about 30 eet. worked the WARM SPRINGS side o the lake trolling at 15 to 20 eet. Caught 5 trout all 3 1/2 to 4 pounds. other than reezing my butt o it was a good day!
    City: SANTA ROSA

    Tips: shad type lures are the key right now or lake trollers, ish are hitting everything rom small 1 1/2 inch lures to 5 inchers.

Wednesday, December 1st, 1999

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: FISHING FOR STEELHEAD HAS BEEN OUTSTANDING. 2 TO 5 FISH DAYS ALL OVER 18 INCHES ARE NOT UNCOMMON. SLOW TROLL A BROKEN BACK REBEL MINNOW (1/4 OZ) ON 8LB TEST ON ANY PART OF THE MAIN BODY ON THE LAKE AND YOU SHOULD BE SUCCESFUL! IF THIS AINT WORKIN FOR YA DRAG A OLIVE OR BLACK WOOLEY BUGGER FLY 2 TO 4 FT BELOW SURFACE, HOLD ON TIGHT DOING THIS ....... I CAUGHT A 5 1/2 LB STEELEY THIS WAY LAST WEEK. GOOD LUCK FOLKS!!!
    City: santa rosa

    Tips: SMALL BROKEN BACK REBEL MINNOWS SEEM TO BE GETTING THE JOB DONE MORE SO THAN RAPALA'S ARE. NO DOWN RIGGERS ARE NEEDED THIS TIME OF YEAR, JUST DRAG'EM ON TOP . ALWAYS CHECK YOUR SPEED WHEN TROLLING, YOUR TROLLING SPEED IS BASED ON HOW FAST IT TAKES FOR YOUR LURE TO PERFORM CORRECTLY.

Saturday, November 27th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Threw worms, lizards and jigs or three hours mid-morning,not even a bite. Picked up a white spinner bait and caughtthree 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 pounders in less than an hour over thetops o submerged trees in about 20' o water, go igure?P.S. They're not water rats (jet skiis), they are called "LAKE LICE"
    City: Healdsburg

Friday, November 26th, 1999

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: More Steelhead action. Back out Friday ater Thanksgiving with my 8 yr old daughter and pulled in 2 more to 15". She lost one about 18" right at the boat. We ished rom the dam to the marina until 12:30. Great time to be out because there are no skiers or water rats (jet skis) to deal with this time o year.
    City: Rohnert Park

    Tips: I trolling is slow try a split shot rig with nightcrawlers or minnows. Cast out and let sink until vertical.

Sunday, November 21st, 1999

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Steelhead anyone?Take a break rom bass ishing and troll along the dam or at and iesty steelhead. Hooked up within minutes o getting my line in the water straight out rom the public launch near the last bouy. Fish are running up to 18". We caught 5 nice ish in about 4 hours.
    City: Rohnert Park

    Tips: Use Countdown Rapalas or Needleish in the top 5'o water. No downriggers needed. 6-8 lb test is all you need.

Friday, November 5th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the bank with worm, blades and cranks. No luck. Caught 2 shakers on rapala at wrap at sundown.First entry. Just practising.
    City: Santa Rosa