One of the things the Sonoma club does at its monthly meetings is review the successful patterns from the previous month's tournie. Since we all can't get together after the Invitational, maybe some people can post what did or didn't work for them.

Saturday AM started out great for Scott & me. I caught my big fish right off the bat on a white buzzbait. She hit it three times (at least I think it was her) before I could finally get her to go. I then picked up three more fish on watermelon w/ red & black Senkos. Scott picked up 4 fish f/ the same spot - rocks with some weeds. He caught all of his fish on Senkos, although he likes the watermelon with red & green. The bite was still going strong until all the bass boaters arrived. But, they did catch fish, as did some of the other tubers in the area as the day went on.

I picked up my limit fish f/ under a dock about an hour later on a 4" silver w/ blue flake Senko (skipped it). In the afternoon, my culling fish also came f/ under a dock, this time on another watermelon w/ red & black Senko.

Sunday was brutal. I didn't catch my 1st keeper until 10:30 AM, & she just barely Will-E-Go'd. Caught on a 4" green pumpkin with black flake Senko, again skipped under a dock. The 2 1/2 lb fish came about 2 hours later on a red craw Fat Free Shad fished over a sunken dock.

The big surprise for me was the lack of a Rattletrap bite. Over the last 3 years, most of my quality Clear Lake fish have come f/ making multiple casts over or beside isolated weedpatches. Nothing this time. The only Rattletrap fish I caught were near docks, & none were over 8". I do know Daniel caught 4 Rattletrap fish on Sunday morning, but he's the only one I heard of doing that.

Thanks once again to all for a great tournament!