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Saturday, October 4th, 1997

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rom 7 a.m. to dusk,caught a lot ish on traps and blades through out the day.VERY WINDY!!! Caught most o the ish in Yorty Creek and Dry Creek.Try shad colored blades and traps.Also try craw cranks,pig'jigs,reapers in shad colors. TIGHT LINES!!!!!
    City: Rohnert Park

Sunday, August 10th, 1997

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: lotsa ish suspended in the trees and chasing shad try crankbaits or smoke/blue reapers ished REAL SLOW
    City: Santa Rosa

Saturday, May 17th, 1997

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Caught 6 largemouth rom 2 - 4 1/4 lbs. in warm springs arm. Early morning were hitting on top water poppers. Switched to Texas Rigs ater 7:30 am. Not much action ater 9am. All ish caught close to shore at base o rock clis, and submerged road. Shad, blue, and brown lures/worms worked best.
    City: Petaluma

Wednesday, May 14th, 1997

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Plenty o small schoolie ish o rocky points in the morning. Caught the smaller numerous ish on the Magic Worm illusion split shot rigged. Larger ish caught between 2-3 pounds were caught on motoroil colored ringworms and brown/ chartruse colored Megabait wooly worms. These ish were caught in the upper arm o Dry Creek. One Large Crappiie.
    City: Marin

Friday, April 25th, 1997

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished upper end o main lake & skunk cr. arm or 7 days , lots o ish to 2.5# on whitch's tea worms. some ish on shad raps & at ree shads, a ew ish on pop r's at dusk.
    City: Eureka

Saturday, April 12th, 1997

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    Water Temp: 56.4

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: caught 9 ish to 3.5 pounds on 4 inch purple weenie by Buda Bait with a green glass & brass. In the trees & o points. Good ishing in Yorty. The main lake is still cold about 51 degrees. Good luck & tight lines.
    City: SF

Wednesday, April 9th, 1997

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rom 7:30am to 5:00pm had limits o small ish by 10am. I cranked the dam and had several ish on, but only landed one. I caught the rest o the ish in warm springsusing worms, paddle tails, plastic craws and crank baits. I ished on points and in the trees. It was very windymost o the day (approx 30 mph. The ishing can only get better so get out there and get those lines wet! Good Luck!
    City: San Bruno

Monday, April 7th, 1997

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    Water Temp: mid50

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Two bites all day. Fished rom about 1pm to 8pm. Fished thenorth end o the lake, till late evening, then tried my luck by the dam.Threw everything but the kitchen sink, and i I had one, I would have tried that too. One bite came on a spinner bait, the other on a worm. Saw large numbers o ish on the depth inder. The majority o them are in water between 10 to 30 t depths.Talked to a guy on the way in, who had caught one, and talked to a another guy on the way out, and he and his partner had caugh our. Using worms and grubs. Lets hope or a warm spell soon, to turn this lake on. Good luck to all.
    City: Novato

Saturday, March 22nd, 1997

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I'm beginning to doubt mysel. Me and a buddy did not catchanything. Although we did see 3 small ish get caught very near us. itlooked like green weenies and chartreuse spinners did the job. We ished the lower arm, i've never been there beore. Mybuddy Dave Ne did bring one to the surace but his drag was loose, he never set the hook. and it got spit out. see ya up there 4/12 I'll be working dry creek area.
    City: Sonoma

Monday, March 17th, 1997

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    Water Temp: 55-59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Didn't catch anything. Fished rom about 7 to 1. Fished with my dad and brother. Used blades, jig n pig, worms, and crankbaits. Talked to some other ishermen and they didn't catch anything either..
    City: Sebastopol

Sunday, March 16th, 1997

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: No action, lottsa rain. Worked small coves o skunk with pig n jig and lizard. My buddy stuck to spinners o various colors. Still learning boat too. I think that heatwave were expecting is going to bust loose this lake. Some men ish all their lives, never knowing it was not the ish they were ater I orget who said it but it seemed appropriate.
    City: Sonoma

Monday, March 3rd, 1997

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: This week and last week I landed 3 ish up to 2.5 lbs. in warm springs area, around allen brush in the water, casting to the shore line and working out to about 10'. I started with a blue and black jig which produced hits but no ish. So I changed to a 6in zoom worm (june bug) with brass and glass and started to catch ish. Hope to see you out there I am in a 15' boston whaler with a 60 johnson out board.
    City: San Bruno

Sunday, January 19th, 1997

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Got skunked! Had 2 hits rom dinks all day. Fished the Warm Springs Arm with rattling jig & pigs, plastics with glass beads or noise and chartruese spinnerbaits. Water clarity is only 3-4in and the lakelevel has been alling 2' per day or the past 2weeks. It is now at normal ull pool.
    City: Concord

Wednesday, December 25th, 1996

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished prerontal weather conditions, which I thought might turn on the bass, but we only caught our to 1 1/2#. Three o the ish came on rootbeer colored twin-tail grubs at about 20' deep. The ourth bass was caught on a chartruese spinnerbait with twin willowlea blades in brass. It hit at about 5' deep, just ater the lure hit the water. The lake is about 6 eet down rom ull pool and rising.
    City: Concord

Monday, December 16th, 1996

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished last riday on a nice sunny day. Only 3 other boats on the water. Water temp is beginning to drop and but there are some big bass to be had. Fish in about 25-30t with Carolina rig or use 25+ tcrankbaits chartreuse and red.
    City: San Bruno

Wednesday, December 11th, 1996

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing was great until this big ront moved through. Caught ish last weekend with some size. I would like to see how this ront is going to eect the bite.
    City: San Bruno

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Shad in Sonoma? How bigwas it?
    City: Sacto

    Tips: dartheads on the Sacto!

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Hello bassnbob, thank you for your answer about that lure "vixen". I really appreciate that. I've been curious about tha lure for a while.
    City: san mateo

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: hello bassnbob, is vixen a walking bait like zara spook or popping bait like pop-r? You said that reaction inovations make the lure. If you can tell me, I really would appreciate it. thank you.
    City: San Mateo

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: No you suck fishhead
    City: Norcal