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Sunday, May 16th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got out on the lake around 9:30 in the morning. (late start). We fished the South Fork but nothing, did not even see fish on the graph. Do not know where they were. If anyone can tell me where they have gone, I would appreciate it.
    City: Sacramento

Friday, May 14th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started About 10:00, finished up about 3:00. Caught 6 total with only four being legal. Biggest about 2 pounds. Alternated between drop shot, crawdad senko, and texas rigged brownish orange worm. Caught fish on all three, but senko brought the most strikes.
    City: Roseville CA.

    Tips: All my strikes came after letting bait sit for atleast 20 seconds.

Monday, May 10th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went out in the pouring rain on monday, dragged tubes for a while with only one taker,
    then went to the trees and it was on. picked up a few in the trees with a senko and tubes.
    City: cool

    Tips: fish slow.. very slow. most bites were after dead sticking the senko on the bottom after half a minute or so

Friday, May 7th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: senkos along the inlet dropoffs and some willows/trees. not real consistent but picked up some 1-2lbers (5). 5" strike king zero (senko type) in junebug worked for me this time. nothing on dropshot but then didn't work it long.
    City: folsom

    Tips: mostly senkos, wacky and flick shakin' them. most took on the fall.
    riverat: check out kent brown's video on summer topwater...talks about doing topwater all the way to 2pm and he's on the money. sometimes an area looks good and my brother and i will do topwater and we hit. summer and warm days of fall we always work topwater first thing in the morning and then throughout the day if it looks good. even til sundown.

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: This is my 4th time fishing at folsom lake. I kinda took my time fishing on flats n rocky points to kinda learn the lake. The first n second time I fish here was when it was a river or a pond. The third time was last week n figure they still in spawing area. This week they still there but not as big or as many. Flats with submerge rock pile ..i threw popper, crankbait, spinner to no result. Threw carolina rig from flat to deep with no result, hoping the female be in deep after spawning. Went with drop shot n bite was on. I found them in flats w/submerge rocks near by and calm from the wind. Caught a 2lbs spotted in tree in about 12 feet of water, try a few other submerge tree but only that one i caught spotted. Caught smallie in submerge rock b4 the flats, LMB in flats. Caught 6 lost 3 nxt to the boat, wacky style..don't set hook hard enough. On one of the flat i've must saw light 20 plus carp in the shallow chasing wat look like fry, blow up everywhere. Saw a few 10-15lbs cruising in 10 ft of water. I wonder is it legal to use a bow on carp at lakes? I know the fight real hard n was thinking about to snag it with rattle trap for the fun fight n release it of course but i didn't..haha
    City: elk grove

    Tips: once i've caught fish, try to find the identical spot n fish it fast but slowly. Robo worm n senko was the go to bait. DOES ANY ONE KNOW WHEN TOP WATER IS ON AT THIS LAKE?? WHEN WOULD BE THE GOOD TIME TO FISH SUBMERGE ROCK PILE IN THE DEEP?

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: as much as jim b.s. I do believe him sometimes...sometimes he makes me confuse..is this guy report foreal..? This one is soo true and some other times too... riverats-->>> confuse with jim

    Tips: don't pass out on fishing near the boat ramps..it's a flat too

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Experimented a little, here and there. Finally went to white rock, ten to fifteen feet with plastics and caught some post males, smallies, spots. Main body, north slopes.Numbers, twoo limits, size, one lbders.
    City: Sac

    Tips: Slow was the ticket. If you were moving it, that was too fast. Dead-sticking was the key.busby and

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: A combination of Jigs and Senko's did the trick.
    Easy 25 fish between my partner and I. A couple of real nice spots and one pushing 3 lb largie. Mix bag of smallie, spots and the one largie. Most fish caught around 12-18 feet.
    City: Lincoln

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Same kinda day as DanO but up North Fork- Senkos & robos, 2 shakers and a #3.5spot. Great day but slow bite.
    City: Antelope,Ca

Monday, April 26th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My buddy and i got on the water about 2pm, i got nada, he picked 3 fish all in the trees with 4" white sinko wacky rigged.
    City: El Dorado

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Dad and I got three bites we know of, but only one in the boat. Bite was very light for us. Drop shotting various colors. Clear with black flake & chartreuse tip was the winner today. I'm sure others did better. Water temperatures are rising. Varied from 58 to 61 today in main body and up in N. Fork. Saw lots of fish (carp and small mouth). The water is definately rising as we launched from Granite Bay's mid water docks. Water is clear. Good Luck.
    City: Sacramento

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 55-60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well fished future pro this weekend, bite was changing by the hour. did okay took 18th out of 126,Caught alot of spawners moving up as the day went along, i used the new HIPPO Tackle 5 inch swimbait in trout color, also caught them on a PHEXIX Tube and finness jig. I just found out they use Gamigastu hooks on there jigs. there web site is Phenix rods -proline.com/

    Tips: Look for staging areas, they started rubin later in the day.

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Thanks Steve for the weather web site. I checked it out and its very helpful. I really appreciate it, you saved me time and alot of gas! Thanks for the information.
    City: san mateo

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Worked coves (out of the wind) in the N. Fork with dropshot. Dad and I picked up seven between us using 4.5" prizm shad roboworms. One hit on a Senco watermellon w/black flake. No hits on other colors. Bite was VERY light. Thanks for the tip deepvbasser... my kids had a great day today!
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Catch & Release!

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    Water Temp: 54-56deg

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Worked S.Fork inlet sides; brother and I picked up 2 with eggs..2.5 and 3 lbs. Then on to another quiet cove and picked up another 2.5lb male, female tagged along to surface and was probably 4 lbs, noticeably bigger as she swam with her mate. Just 3 for the day but still fun.
    City: folsom

    Tips: Used zappu inchi-wacky rigs; bro used perch dropshot worm (3.5"); I used 6" pro-worm in prizm shad. probably others had better luck with something different but this is what we stuck with today.

Friday, April 9th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I use the Browns Ravine website. They have a link to check weather, wind, water level ect. Its great! Good luck!

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Thanks deepvbasser...looks like dartheads and patience are a must for fishing Folsom. This is one tough lake!
    City: Sacramento

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Don't go to Folsom now , the fish are cold and will not spawn for two month's at least.I would wait for the jet ski traffic to know the bite is good. OK that's a lie , the bite is actually pretty good , not red hot yet but good. I have been out three times through this cold front and had decent action every time. However that said I have not had a good reaction bite, almost all my fish have been on plastic. Ripping and top water have let me down.

    All smallies and spots , the average fish is two and a half lbs with my biggest a four and a half lb spot last night. I have not seen any large mouth yet
    City: Granite bay

    Tips: Just go

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Does anyone know what websight to go to get an accurate wheather forcast at folsom lake? I'm trying to find out what the wind is doing before I go to the lake. We all know how windy the this lake gets. I'm about 3 hrs. from this lake and hate to go all the way there and find out that its going to blow 20mpg. I just have a 14' alluminum.
    City: san mateo

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Tough bite for dad and I. Woked main body points and South Fork. Nothing on rattle traps in shallows. Nothing on spoons over submerged humps. Nothing on drop shots on rocky bottoms.

    Any advice would be appreciated.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Water is rising.