Cloudy Sonoma...

Bodega was nice & sunny today so I decided run away from work a little to do some fishing (don't worry I can catch up with the night shift & I'm working all weekend)...
I knew the river was still blowing, and I lost my anchor at last dino trip in Montezuma... so I decided to hit Lake Sonoma.
I loaded up the scupper started driving.  Little shower showed but sun was still up, so I wasn't too worry, but by the time I got to the North Santa Rosa started pouring...  When I got close to the lake the thick could covering around the lake.
I have to use bathroom so I stopped the visitor center by the entrance of Lake Sonoma.  When I went in they have a lot of display about the wildlife in Sonoma county and I found out that the place was a fish hatchery.  They're hatchery for Russian River steelheads!  It was still raining, so I decided to check out the place.  I followed the sign & got to the hatchery then heard this big splash & banging noise.  I followed the noise to see what's up there and saw little fish ladder.  The fish ladder was close so the fish were jumping & banging against the closed gate.  The water was very cloudy, so hard to see the fish, but they jump out to surface time to time.  They're huge!!!
Anyways, enough for the story & just check this out!

You probably won't understand what I am saying but nothing important so please just ignore...  and please pay attention to the pictures in the video too!


How about my fishing?
by the time I got to the lake (past 2pm), it was only patchy cloud left.  I got to the water & realized the water was very very cloudy...  I had pretty bad feeling about this but the sun was out, so I started troll.  I trolled the live minnow & Daiwa Dr.minnow on the other.  A lots of debris in the water & I was getting very annoyed by them...   I was getting nothing except debris & snags...  I got to "the trees" & turned around and finally got a good hit inside the cove on the live minnow, but somehow my reel started turning backwards...?  I didn't realized that the reel's return lever was broken.  By the time I got hand on the pole, it was all over...   That was it for me today...

Cool report, Naoaki.   

Very cool Noaoki

I'm lovin the collage panoramics!

Hey Noaki.  I went to the hatchery for the first time last Friday afternoon.  Awesome!
I took some video clips too, but the fish were camera shy.

Wow!  Thanks for the pics and vids!  I may have to visit this place some day!  Those fish are HUGE!

That fish ladder was cool but it looks like a pretty tough launch. Worth it though for the AOTY points. 

Love the pics and video. Better luck next time.

Scott

Hey Noaki.  I went to the hatchery for the first time last Friday afternoon.  Awesome!
I took some video clips too, but the fish were camera shy.

on youtube?

That fish ladder was cool but it looks like a pretty tough launch. Worth it though for the AOTY points. 

as long as I'm on the yak it's ok dry all right!? then again fishing at hatcheries or fish ladder is very DFG illegal...