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Saturday, February 13th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 50-52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Zero, zip, skunked, nada'gd'thing. Completely opposite last weekend. Saw fish at various depths but just couldn't figure it out. Windy in the morning and thought that would score on the windy points...zero, zip, skunked, nada...tried darthead, finesse jig, dropshot, tiny swimbait...everything that worked last weekend... zero, zip, skunked, nada..oh, I guess I said that already. Well, such is life trying to catch bass at Folsom Lake.
    City: folsom, ca

    Tips: I guess keep trying...saw the bassers head straight to south fork but also saw them working same main lake points..so did we. Favorite areas were zero, zip, skunked, nada (sorry, just had to say it again)...I'm pretty sure the pro-ams caught..hope one or more of them post something.

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I was thinking about getting out tomarrow for a couple of hours.......anyone game????
    City: Antelope

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 49-50deg

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: started main body points...a few missed hits dragging jigs. picked up a few spots on dartheads in 15-20ft. consistently saw fish at 22ft so worked this depth for 3-4 more. moved up south fork and just picked points that everyone else wasn't working. found a good rocky point that transitioned to gravel and picked up 4 more. all these on 1/4oz darthead in both aaron's magic and morning dawn....folsom bass's preferred worms! all good 1.75 - 2 pounders. nice day but had to keep moving. that's funny - work slow but keep moving! and i guess be prepared for the ticket because we heard someone said someone they know reported to the sheriff's dept seeing several bass guys ignoring the 5mph. we also saw a couple of winter jetskiers with roostertails.
    City: folsom

    Tips: just because the electronics don't show fish doesn't mean they're not there. keep draggin' the dartheads and finesse jigs. brother's first few hits were all jigs. then he did a length-wise wacky with the head in line with the darthead and that worked for our last 4. 10-20ft and some inlets. bites are soft and not always obvious. hurry up spring!! wanna crank!!!

Friday, February 5th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hit the lake around noon. Fished mostly swim baits, spinner and cranks. Ended up with only 3 bites all day and one chaser. All bites were on swim baits. 2 of my buddies were on the lake and come to find out they killed them. They caught over 15 with the best five close to 15 pounds. If I did not see it for myself I would of said no way with the luck me and my brother had.
    City: Antelope

    Tips: Fish finesse and shallow that is what killed them for my friends. I NEED THE HORSHOE THEY HAVE IN THERE BOAT.... GET THE BANNANA OUT OF MY BOAT IT IS BAD LUCK....

Monday, February 1st, 2010

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    Water Temp: varies from pla

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished no deeper than 30 ft today. Previous report from another contributor, right on the money.Several limits today, all over two 3/4. A friend of mine had around 16 lbs as we shared our spots in different boats. New York creek had 52 degrees at 7am, up river was 46 on surface and two degrees coler four feet down.Plastics, darts, jigs.
    City: sac

    Tips: Try the warmer creeks and in afternoon as it warms.fish main body.

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 47/48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fished the main body for a few hours this morning. was able to land a couple fish with one ton beavers in 30 to 40 ft. once that slowed down i concentrated my efforts to a little shallower water. got a few bites drop shotn morning dawn but was only able to land one lrg. mostly spots.
    City: Carmichael

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    Water Temp: 46-48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Way to lie once again Jimbo.....look at the date of your post!!! You're getting so bad at this that you're lying in the future now!!!!
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Give it rest Jim, no one actually believes that you can catch one rat, dink, squeaker let alone the ones you lie about catching!!!!

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 49.7

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Daughter and i went out this morning.Started out fishing deep nothing so decided with the water flow coming try shallow and bam there they were big spots in 6'to 10' of water and the good thing is they were all on jigs.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: catch n release

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started out at day break from Granite ramp. Fished dam area and back to waypoints to launch area. Nice bunch of fish at 40 to 70 feet with white/black pepper tubes. Dooddeling (shaking) slowly was best producer.
    City: sac

    Tips: Water was warmer than river and also clearer. D.O. was above normal for bass which helped. Caught a couple of nice trout. List your website on a chance to fish w/me. (very rare I do it).

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey Jiim u should be a bass guide...plz give me ur phone number so i can book a trip with u. I will pay 500 dollars for your services. Also give me your home address so we can meet up .
    City: elk grove

    Tips: will bet jim gonna be the best guide i've ever hired

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished one small area up South Fork for all fish which ranged to four and one half pounds, (all spots).Stayed within a fifty yard circle. Spots came up at various times, not all at once. I left at elen thirty. All fish were no deeper than 30 ft with most shallower than that.Natural Shad senkos, 3", rigged with small nail weight and wacky rigged.

    Tips: Deadsticking, hit on the fall or worked really slow was the only way I could get bites.

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: darthead and dropshot picked up 3 spots about 2lbs each. aaron's magic and morning dawn worked. rich springs, can u be a little more specific on the 4-5lb bass being caught?
    City: EDH

    Tips: patience and work around the bait balls.

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 48.9

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Lots of fog early and cool air temp. D.O. levels up river 11.1 and visibility 100%. Bites were very soft and slow presentations had to be made to get the fish. Main body D.O. was 10.8 with good visibility and bites were also the same. Senkos in natural shad took all fish today.
    City: sac

    Tips: Cool temps and high D.O. are still fishable. Just go slow and offer them something larger because feeding maybe every three days.

Friday, January 8th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: For the future for those who don't know. The middle ramp at Granite has been expanded to 6 lanes. This should help in the Spring and the Fall. Recently a lot of bass in the 4lb to 5lb
    range are being caught.
    City: Granite Bay Ca

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I just wanted to inform everyone that there is only one ramp available to launch your boat now. The Granite Bay low ramp is the only one that is out of water to date. The Browns Raven launch ramp has just closed recently. Current water level is at 379 ft, down 87 feet. Good luck and be safe. Lake is 5mph and will remain that way until it reaches 400feet, that is if we get any more rain.
    City: EDH

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Bite was slow went north for 2 spots and 1 salmon then to main body for one nice spot.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Today we fished dart heads and dropshot.

Monday, January 4th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 48 -50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: launch g.b. at 11.30 met friend out in main lake a limit of 13-14 in. for him on dart head. quick bites on 1tons for me but manage to pull up 3 pound spot all 25 to 40 feet. saw 10 bass boats and no reports.
    City: carmichael

    Tips: never give up

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: sorry, not a report...just more thanx to seabass! will be sending my membership to chris b. soon. can't make any of the meetings (work nights), but just wanna learn more.
    City: folsom

    Tips: don't crowd others; if someone is nice enough to give you a tip, respect it. if they prefer not to, accept it. but when they do, appreciate it!

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

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    Water Temp: NO temp gauge

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hey Nateroo stick with it, fish were I showed you look for what I told you about
    City: EDH

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    Water Temp: 47 - 51

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started out in front of Brown's Ravine on main body...saw lots of fish 40-50ft..wouldn't take anything (ds, darthead, jigs..zero). Went up So.Fork to hit points...more fish 50-60ft. No takers. Went back on main body and finally asked someone catching what was working. He showed us what was working for him. Big brother finally hooked a 2.5lb smallie. Still a zip day for me. Oh, news to us was to stay in 15ft no more than 20ft. Learned too late. Shux.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: None to give. But HUGE THANX to Tom...very cool of him to be open about what was working for him. He even tossed me his lure, which I had a bunch of! Tom, THANK YOU!! You're now sharing top spot with Chris B. My big bro and me appreciate cool/nice people!!