Lake Sonoma Chrome, 11/15

Drew and I headed up to Lake Sonoma early Saturday morning to do some early season recon on the hard fighting landlocked steelies who live there.  We trolled for about two hours for one hookup, which turned out to be a big one.  It was Drew who caught it of course, and it was our biggest steelhead from the lake ever at just 5 pounds.  Drew got it trolling a shad rap on 6 pound, which made for a great fight.  It did not want anythign to do with the big grey kayak and made 5 or 6 long hard runs each time it got close to the boat.  Luckily, it was well hooked and we landed it.  Fished bass for about 30 minutes after trolling and got one nice fat 2 pounder on a shakey head and 6 inch worm near the Yorty Creek Ramp, and that was it.  We were off the water by 10:30 or so.

We ate the steelie for dinner last night and it was awesome.  Drew was very proud of the fact that he provided Sunday dinner for the family....

Water was still pretty clear and low, so the recent storm action has not had much effect yet.  Next big storm system should get them in the mood for love and then they should start congregating in the creek arms.

Norm

Awesome Norm musta been an awesome battle, Drew is the Man.

Beautiful Fish WTG!!!

Nice chromer guys.  Cant wait for the weekend

 

VERY NICE!!!!  That is a rare catch... epic!

Wow! What a fish Drew. Norm thats great. The lake looks a little low but compared to Pillsbury and Mendo I guess its still pretty full. A close drive and a beautiful fish. The best of the best!

Great job getting Drew on a nice fish!  Thanks for the report.   

That's a beautiful steelhead Nawm. Congrats to Drew for landing it. Another
quality father and son moment. Thanks for the report and picture.

Jedmo

Very nice indeed! How high did it jump??

Very nice indeed! How high did it jump??

At least twice it's body length.  The first jump was only heard rather than seen by me and based on the "size" of the sound, I knew it was going to be a good one.  Drew is still smiling about that one.....me too!