Where was this fish caught? I read where it was in Norhtern California. I lived in Santa Rosa, CA for 9 years (Santa Rosa is about 70 miles north of San Francisco, CA). I cut my teeth on bass fishing at Spring Lake through the 1980s. I lived about 1.5 miles from this lake... Check out:

http://westernbass.com/scalifornia/featured/view.html?id=169

Apparently, Spring Lake now holds some HAWGS... Man, if I still lived there I would be a mess! Wanting to hawg hunt all the time with a 10" trout swimbait!!!

Back when I fished this lake it was all Mann's plastic worms, small crankbaits, Mepp's Spinners, etc. A lot of rainbow trout caught there as well. As we all know, that' s why the bass get so huge in CA...