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Tuesday, June 15th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 68-71

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: when out at 8:00 sight fishing caught 10 pounder on red senko
    City: santa rosa

    Tips: good luck

Sunday, June 13th, 2004

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    Water Temp: very warm. hig

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Sunday with no one else on the water until around 11:00. Small taps to a senko were all the action. I don't know what's going on here, but the past two times I've been to Spring have been really unproductive. The fact that it was a beautiful day and no one else bothered to get on the water early leads me to think that perhaps there's a problem here that I'm just realizing.
    Is anyone else sticking fish here???
    City: Petaluma

    Tips: gimme a break!

Saturday, June 12th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out on Spring about 7:30 A.M. We had several hits on soft plastics but could not pick up the bite. It is almost as if they are not taking the bait in.
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: Be ready and set the hook on little bump.

Friday, May 14th, 2004

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I fished Spring Lake Friday. I got on the water at around 11:00 am and fished until around 3:00 pm. Two small strikes on topwater was all I was able to get for four hours. WEAK! I threw shallow cranks, chartreuse, white and red spinnerbaits, flukes, senkos, lizards and the beforementioned topwater baits. The wind kicked up at around 2:00 which I thought would correspond to a decent spinnerbait bite or some topwater action given the slight chop on the water. Nothing. Regardless, it was better than being at work! There was only one other guy on the water and he caught a nice one on a soft plastic (I think).
    City: Petaluma

    Tips: Given my lack of production, who the hell knows?!?

Thursday, May 13th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Want to klnow how to fish Spring Lake in Santa Rosa. I've only fished it a few times and only caught small fish. Recently purchased a small 12'Pelican bass boat and I am looking for a person to fish Spring lake with. It needs a trolling motor and a an outboard. I am a young bass fishermen and looking for other experienced fishermen.
    Please E-mail me if interested
    City: Petaluma

Saturday, May 8th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: went out at about 7:45 AM and went north off of the dock. Fished senkos off the first island in the channel and got nothing. Went to far north island and got one 3 pounder. Then went back to channel and got another one at about 2 pounds. Fished senkos all day up against cover.
    City: santa rosa

    Tips: Fish senkos up against cover and take it real slow, and they will hit it.

Wednesday, April 21st, 2004

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got out on the water at 4. Went straight across the lake to the middle island and far shore with heavy cover, planned on flipping black with red flake brush hog to heavy cover in hopes of prespawn bass waiting for a streak of good weather to finally spawn. However when i got to the middle island i was already seeing just hatched bass fry, so i guess most of my prespawners had already spawned. after about the first 30 mins i got my one and only bite of the day, a 5 1/2, spawned out bass that i flipped out of dead coontails. after that i didnt get another hit, i flipped tules, swam brush hogs through the weedbeds, fished breaklines, fished a senko, and nothing.
    City: Windsor

    Tips: its real hard to find a pattern on this lake, just fish as much fish holding cover as possible to put together a limit.

Sunday, April 4th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished clear lake for a good 2 hrs. Flipped a brush hog, black w/ red flake and a spinnerbait all day. fished everything from wood, heavy grass, coontails, tules, shallow, deep, breaklines, rocks and got 1 fish for it, a prespawn 1 lber. Dont bother with this lake, its dying, almost dead with all the pressure that it gets now after that Tru story that everyone knows wasn't true at all.
    City: windsor

    Tips: go somewhere else.

Wednesday, March 31st, 2004

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    Water Temp: about 60*?

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Did a snoop (just a snoop....not by choice) at Spring L. with the DFG (Day Fish Group) from the club (RRFF). We learned that they preferr you not FF from the beach at this lake, and knowing the conscious presence that most FF'ers give to the area of their back-cast, we fully understand their desires. We were NOT geared for tubing today (why?....the fish are ON the bank) and desired not to weild other than fly gear sooo.........
    Anyway, we did a quick snoop around the lake finding it to be in VERY similar "stage" as the club pond, though the fish are more challenging to spot due to more turbid water. We DID eyeball in the neighborhood of 20-25pr in one pass around. There are far more "trail-ends" or pull-outs with fish present and visible than those without.
    Most fish were from about 12" to 7lbs......most being 14"-20". Fishing should have been grand due to absolutely glorious weather and there should have even been a conciderable amount of catching going on today. :-)
    What a beautiful little area you Santa Rosa people have there.
    ......lee s.
    City: Petaluma

    Tips: Release ALL spawners!

Sunday, March 14th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 52-56

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: got to the lake around 7:45am. Water was still pretty muddy missed one fish in the tules be the boat dock. Fished out toward the north side of the lake, saw a lot of movement in the tules as if bass were chasing bait fish but couldn't find the bite. Of the 6 boats and 4 belly boaters I spoke to only 2 had caught fish, one on a white spinner. Not sure what the other was caught on.
    City: santa rosa

Thursday, March 11th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: why don't you just post the picture up and let us decide?
    City: windsor

Wednesday, March 10th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: my brother the would-be kayaker is an idiot.
    City: petaluma

Sunday, March 7th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Sorry dude. I was the guy in the kayak that helped you with your fish. That fish was both fat and healthy but, I would estimate, was more like 5 or 6 lbs. Not 9 lbs and definitely not a 10 lb. This is not a put down on you, though. It was a great catch!
    City: Santa Rosa

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    Water Temp: no idea

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Sunday from a float tube. On the water by 8:30 and launched from the main parking lot. Fished right at the shoreline from about 30 yards away at 90 degree angles. Hooked a 4-5# on my fourth cast. Nothing for the next hour throwing the same spinnerbait. Switched to senkos, robo worms, grubs. Nothing. Went back to the 'bait and hooked a fatty, about 9-10#. Took a pic with the help of a kayaker and released it.
    Both fish were caught in dirty 6' water. Slow, steady retrieve. Neither fought as hard as I would've expected, but it is still winter and the water hasn't really warmed up yet.
    City: petaluma

    Tips: Catch and Release.

Wednesday, January 14th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 70+

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: WIll somebody start posting reports. It is a simple thing to do, but no one will do it. I love this lake but i live so far away that i just cant take a trip and go fish it. I wanna hear some feed back on it to see if its worth the trip.
    City: santa rosa

Monday, October 27th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got out on the water ater school at about 3. started ishing the deep weeds witha spinnerbait, had one hit right away while the spinnerbait was sinking but didnt hook up. got my irst ish about 3 lbs 50 t o the south island in the weeds on the spinnerbait. started making my way to the north end but right in the middle o the lake i ripped the sb through a good clump o weeds and it got whacked. landed a nice 4 1/2 lber ater a good ight. i was up in the northeast side o the lake where i picked up 2, one nonkeeper and a 1lber. both were on senkos up against the tulies. i tossed the spinnerbait again around the north island and missed another one that hit while it was sinking. i picked 2 more up on my way in in the northeast cove. one was 2 lbs on the spinnerbait on the lone wood and the other was about 13 inches on a buzzbait .
    City: windsor

    Tips: jdogg, send me an email and i will let u know what you need to know about deep water on spring lake.

Tuesday, October 14th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got out at about 5 pm. moved across the lake tossing a spinnerbait to see i i could pick one o the weeds. once i reached themiddle island i started tossing a chartreuse senko to all the shallow cover. no hits yet. ished my avorite bush with the senko, irst cast i made a perect skip right into it. saw the limbs start moving. reeled up line and set the hook, landed a real healthy 5-2 lber. this was a nice atty. started covering water again with a spinnerbait. made my way up to the northern end and started tossing a rootbeer/redlake senko to the deep weeds. irst cast landed a 4-5. got in beore dark. not to bad or the time i was there
    City: windsor

    Tips: ish senkos slow, ish arent hitting hard so concentrate on ur line.

Thursday, October 2nd, 2003

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: got out there with my kayak at 7:15am hoping or a bunch o nice ones. Well, i ished very thouroughly the entire south end o the lake with a senko. Only got one bite which took my lure under logs 6 eet down and the ish came o. Thats all that happened. Iv caught ish there beore just like how i ished there today, but today sucked.

    Tips: honestly, im stumped, i ished more thourougly than i ever had. I guess senkos just arent working. There are a lot o weeds down there, so, i guess in the morning topwater looks good. Catch and release only, good luck.

Thursday, September 25th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: thinking about tubing spring this saturday, i anyone wants to ish it with me saturday or sunday shoot me an email.
    City: windsor

Sunday, September 7th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Good to hear you let it go.That's the attitude that will keep it a quality ishery.
    City: Petaluma