Lake Sonoma Smokin

Driving to the lake it kept getting smokier and smokier I thought the hills were on fire but I guess it was just smoke from the Napa fire.
Launched at 1 and went to the spots that produced LMB last week for a big fat nothing so I shot up the warm springs arm as I was going by the Marina I saw a huge school of bait on the bottom in 30' of water so I tied on a couple of cranks and started trolling 2 min into the troll both rods get nailed land one nice steelie and the one on the other rod was jumping but got off pretty funny when a fish your not even fighting keeps jumping. So I circle the bait for about an hour and get 6 hook ups and land 4 of them 1 I had to keep  she was bleeding pretty bad. I continue up the arm and hit some rocky areas for so smallies nothing big but pretty consistant action, but still no LMB hit a couple more spots for nada so I head back out to the main part of the lake the sun getting pretty low so I start tossing the only top water lure I brought and bingo it gets blowed up fish on oops fish off and another fish hits it too make a long story short the bass turned on like a light switch I nailing bass after bass and then I lose my lure so I start throwing senkos in about 3' of water and you can see the bass rushing to get them too much fun. Went thru 2 bags in about and hour getting hit on almost every cast nothing big but not dinks all 15/19". Hated to leave but had to, caught one with a weird mark on it's tail any ideas.

Nice variety there Mike Gotta love that 

Looks like a bruise on the LM or have you been wineing and dining those fish .Sounds like alot of fun.

Nice Steelie and Bass Mike, Looks like you really know all the hot spots.

Looks like a bruise on the LM or have you been wineing and dining those fish .Sounds like alot of fun.

Frank I think your definition of Tail is a little differant than mine

Is that an Ice chest full of beer I see in the first picture?

I hear you on the smoke, I went to a wedding on saturday in Sonoma and on the way home that night the hills were glowing and I could see the flames shooting up 50-60 feet in the cloud of smoke. It definitely was a site to see. I wish the camera would of picked up the hillside glow it was pretty bada$$. Anyways nice job, it sounds like fun being able to hook one right after another.

Is that an Ice chest full of beer I see in the first picture?

I didn't see it happen but there was a funky aluminum boat at the ramp when I got there, some guy told me he was leaving the ramp a little too fast and his wife was using the cooler as a seat he hit a big wake and the cooler and his wife went flying he said it had $200 of food and Beer mostly beer in it they were going to a boat in campground. I heard his wife yelling at him and she refused to get in the boat again can't say I blame her.

Master of the Lake Sonoma combo.  Great report, Mike.   

Looks like business as usual for you at Lake Sonoma Mike. Pretty awesome stuff...

Freddie

Side note last week I was using Power Pro on my wacky set up and broke off quite a few fish in the brush I spooled up with Suffix Performance Braid and didn't break off any it is a little stiffer still casts great a little quieter thu the guides and easier to tie knots with, I had a few fish wrap me up and I have no abraded spots on the line I am impressed. I'm going to switch out my rockie rigs. I'm still a Mono guy but this line has me thinking.

I hear ya Mike... My rigs with power pro are frayed up. I'm trying this spider wire braided stuff and so far... so good.

Freddie

Looks like business as usual for you at Lake Sonoma Mike. Pretty awesome stuff...

Freddie

I second that! Quite Impressive! that's the kind of day that DREAMS are made of!
great shots of the variety pack Mike....WHAT?noCATFISH?     

WHAT?noCATFISH? 

You laugh but I was thinking about it stopped a couple of times to check out some worm containers or dig up some bait all I could find were lizards but they are too cute to impale. Tried for Crappie too might be a fun idea for a Tourney points for each species. If I had taken some worms I would have had a good shot at 3 more species kittys,crappies and sunfish.

Nice day Mike!  you have that place dialed.

I'm a big Suffix braid fan too... very nice stuff!

Good day on the water mike... the smoke up here is terrible...  how could you breath out there?  I would have been out there myself except the wife is now working from home and I was busy helping her set up her office... apparently I'm her new I.T. guy.