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Monday, April 20th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Pre fishing is and will be a problem since anglers that want to fish tournaments dont know how to PRE FISH they rip 10-20 lips all week long and then try to catch the same fish or one angler I found and spoke to boxed 10 fish and tried to re locate them to a spot where he could go back on tournament day and catch them Learn to pre fish and these big tournaments will do better
    Next Item I have to grip about is how the fish were treated We have been working to catch and release Bass but when you get to weigh in and the tournament director dosen't have a live well to hold fish in while your waiting to weigh in is killin fish or after you weigh in. then you get a dry bag of fish back did anyone see how many fish were floating after this tournament lots !!

    Future pro needs to spend some money on getting the right things to help the lakes keep the fish alive instead of fishing them to death and then throwing dead fish back the seminars they have prior to tournaments should include how to pre fish a lake not just where they are bitting
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    City: Roseville

    Tips: Before you take the time spend the money to fish tournaments learn the basic Pre fish is mostly finding a pattern useing your finder to locate fish then fish it hard on game day aerate those live wells and keep your fish alive thats the only way we will keep our lakes going good when you have 160 boats ripping lips

    And yes I have emailed Vince to voice my concerns

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 59-61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I had a trip on Sunday with two guys learning the lake. They caught 12 nice fish up to 3 lbs. Most were on a Carolina rigged robo worm, the rest on a smoke grub with 1/8oz. dart head and a 4 inch senko on a Pag rig. Most every boat in the greater Sacramento area was out that day which made for rough water afternoon. Stayed in the North fork all day. Ripped one fish in the morning on a Lucky Craft Pointer 110 Ghost.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: To get those suspended fish in the trees try swimming a grub through it or a 4 inch slim senko Pag rigged. (Weedless Wacky)

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 58-60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Ok had the future pro tour this weekend and It was fun fished last tuesday in the driving wind out of necessity we found a cove near the marina and hid out of the wind fishing willows what we stumbled on was around twelve pounds of fish on beds then thursday the wind was gone so I went looking for other beds and found tons of them all over the lake except up the north fork did'nt find one so on saturday I ran for the marina and got there first by 7 I had a limit and culled by 7:15 we had 11.44 in the boat all day could'nt cull up none of my bed fish were secrets anywhere else except one three pounder and I had her on then lost her just shy of the net.Took 32nd place out of the 153 boats. Needed that 3 to get in top ten maybe I won't mess up next time but I won't hold my breath.
    City: grass valey

    Tips: The bed fish are up lots of largies check out the marina area I found a ton of spots hanging out under the docks I could'nt get them to bite but maybe you can. senkos in the willows don't give up on it may have to fish the same bush for awhile to get the bites but their in there. watch around you for fish moving out of the brush and on to beds it happened for me all day the hud can produce out there even in the afternoon a 10 plus was caught on the penn around 1pm so give a toss when you think the hens might move on to the beds.

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well my buddy Doug and I fished the Future Pro event here on Folsom. Pre fished Friday and had about 15 lbs. Sat ( tournament day ) only could manage 11.41 for our best 5 fish. The guys in the lead when we left had 19 lbs, but they had an 11.55 lb kicker. The guys in second had a 10.4 kicker and only 18 lbs. If you did not get a kicker fish it was over. We thru swimbaits and spooks in the morning trying to find that kicker fish. Not even a follower. So we switched over to plastics for the rest of the day and got our limit. Culled a few fish, but no size. This is my second Future pro tournament and most contestants including myself do much better on prefish then the tournament. After two events I think I know why. Most tournaments do not allow prefishing after Wendsday. With Friday prefishing the fish are getting too beat up the day before. Even my partner and I caught too many fish the day before. We wanted to see what size fish were biting where. After one fish we would leave the spot only to see two other boats move in the spot, and catch fish. Perhaps Vince should consider no prefishing after thursday. He would have to have someone patrolling the situation, which adds to His costs.
    City: San Francisco

    Tips: The trees and points were the spots in the afternoon. Also ledges 20 feet deep in the morning. Clear ,natural shad, or watermellon plastics were the key colors. Almost no bite. The fish just pick it up and somtimes move with it. Watch Your line. Ray

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    Water Temp: 58-62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: As I promised from my last post that I would tell you what I used bait wise on that outing. Threw senko's on isolated trees and brush piles. The word quickly got out and there were over 140 boats fishing today's FPT event and everyone were fishing the trees over real well. All week long those trees were hammered but still I believe that today's winner probably caught their fish in the trees. As for me not so well. As a local I am a shame that I don't do very well on this lake. It is very difficult for me to figure out.
    City: EDH

    Tips: Just go out and have fun

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took my 2 kids out to North Fork with some live worms and couldn't even catch a Blue Gill. Fished the banks around Granite Bay with plastics, spinners and dart heads and nothing. I am new to the area from Arkansas and I could walk out to the boat ramp and catch perch all day long there. Is there something I am missing here. Any recommendations on where I can at least take the kids and let them catch a fish before they never want to go again?
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Go play golf

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My partner and i got over 20 fish in the north fork mostly in the 20 ft range. We are fishing next to trees and steep walls. We are catching them on senco's and worms on a carolina rig.The trip before this one we had over 30.
    City: cameron park

    Tips: Let the bait sit or move it slow

Friday, April 10th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: A buddy and I fished Folsom yesterday from 6am to @1pm. The bite was tough but we managed about 16lbs for 5 fish with a 5.02lb Largemouth as a kicker fish. I can't say too much right now due to upcoming Future Pro Tournament next Saturday. I will post all details from yesterday's trip as well as how We did in the tournament on next saturday afternoon. All I can tell you now is that the water is starting to warm and that the lake level is up another 10 feet. I will also post the pic of the 5.02lb bass soon.
    City: EDH

    Tips: Coming after Tournament

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: fished north end of lake, bite is starting to pick up.Strom was moving in, thought it would help but didn't.Cought 7 keeper fish best five went 12lb, mostly spots.Started to find a pattern for the spots.I need to find the big large mouth,their tough to find. Fishing future pro very soon cant give up the pattern.
    City: grass valley

    Tips: Time on the water

Monday, April 6th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 2:30 to 6:00 and had a great bite.Had close to 14 lbs with the best five. Caught a 4.5 spot that looked like it swallowed a softball.All females that were bulging with eggs.All the fish were spots, a total of 15 caught. With all the talk about fish killing I have to agree I am seeing lots of it. I pulled three decent spots off one area tonight then a small boat with three guys in it came the other side of the spot. They caught three and put them on a stringer with other fish.It was all legal, no violation I could see, they all had a license on.I for one would be happy to change the law to release only during the spawn.Tourney exemption ???
    City: Granite Bay

    Tips: Sorry no specifics this time . Tourney in two weeks

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    Water Temp: 55-58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I knew the fishing would be tough in Sat after the nasty north wind on Fri, but I did a "teach the lake" trip with a nice client in his boat. Our main job was to learn more about how to approach the lake during different seasons of the year, and off-shore structure areas. We did fish a lot of spots, not spending too much time on any of them. I started off with a nice bass on a Rattletrap. We caught 2 more on 4" Berkely Power worms - nice spots to 2 1/2 lbs. We found a couple more in the afternoon with a total weight of over 8 lbs. If we had really fished hard in a few favorite areas, we would have caught more - I'm sure. Bite was really tough, no question. A few warm days WITHOUT a lot of wind will change the bite for the better. Lake is coming up very nicely!!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: Can't give too many details since he is fishing upcoming tournaments. A lot of searching will be necessary since a rapidly rising lake offers so many new "homes" and spawning areas for the bass. The major spawn also will probably be a bit later this year.

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 50-57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: A bit chilly on sat to say the least but it quickly wore off after that first initial run ended!! Started out just throwing reaction baits lucky craft, yozuri's, and shad patterns to no avail!! Fished south hard till 10:30 with out a bite and then got a small KEEPER in about twenty feet! As we pulled up to a spot way up the south arm there were a couple of guys fishing with live bait on a wall up there "supposedly for trout".. I asked them if they had done any good and they pulled up a stringer with a Beautiful pre spawn 4 pound momma just fat as can be with eggs!!! I was so upset that they were gonna keep her i thought about jumping in and cutting that thing loose but i held back my urge and just tried to put it out of my mind!! Fricken sad to see!!! Fished around main body to end the day with only that one little guy and headed in frustrated as can be!!!
    City: Fair Oaks

    Tips: Please guys the lake is hard enough and i want my kids to enjoy the largemouth bass in the future so if you must keep them make sure they are not prego and make for dang sure they are over the legal limit!! Its best to just buy the ones at the store if you must enjoy a nice meal cause bass are not known for their taste anyway!!
    God Bless!!

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    Water Temp: 52-56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the CBAF today with about 25 to 30 other boats. Very tough morning bite, at noon we only had two fish in the live well. After that the fished moved up and we started culling at 1:00 ended up just short of eleven pounds.Lots of small weights, I did not go to the awards as it was in Rocklin but I think around 13 lbs was the winner and just shy of 4 lbs was big fish.
    City: Granite Bay

    Tips: Fish the afternoon the next couple of days

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Well me and my brother gave it a try today got on the water at 6:20 am. we didn't pick up our first fish until about 8:30 am on a Xrap in about 15 ft. then my brother picks 1 up on a dropshot in about 20 ft. Then we came up on a group of people catching and keeping undersized bass so I called fish and game and gave them their CF # as soon as I called they high tailed it out of their and think headed in. I talked to the game warden and they didn't get them this time but next time I hope their luck runs out !! The game warden told me that the CF # I gave him didn't match any boat In the records so you guys keep going out their and I hope you get caught !! well we ended up with 4 fish for the day,oh well think I'll try Amador tomorrow
    City: Carmichael

    Tips: If You see these people out on the water taking undersized fish Get Cf # and a good description of the boat and # of people poaching

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The wind has pushed the fish out to 5-15ft.
    Look for fish on the most vertical drop off in spawning areas and fish slow. When the wind go's down head for the back of bays and find the best isolated cover.Mid next week should be wide open!
    City: roseville

    Tips: I fish folsom 3-4 days a week and see lots of shore fishermen killing every fish they catch.On thrus i saw five "people" fishing the rock garden area from the bank all but one of them had three bobbers out or more.And they are out almost every day.Please stop killing my best freinds.If we all stop talking about it and do somthing then it will chang.Call dfg in front of them so they can hear the call and stay in site so you can help dfg find them cf# plate # .
    Last year i called dfg on four guys killing short fish off the dock @gb .The thing that botherd me the most was alot of people did nothing.They all got cited for over limit and under size fish. I don't think calling things as you see them is a bad thing and if they were white guys i would have done the same.Call dfg and keep the white trash thing out of it .I will help anyone that is not killing fish .

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished afternoon 3:45 to dark, expected a great bite but was not happening. Fished North, about 15 stops to the Rattlesnake ramp. Blue bird calm no wind, ended up with 6 total most coming the last 30 minutes before dark. My nephew caught 4 of them with senkos and I had 1 darterhead fish and 1 jig fish. Biggest was 2.5 lbs
    City: Granite Bay

    Tips: It should be on very soon, water was a little cool for this time of year

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

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    Water Temp: sorry no temp s

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out today with good friends to see folsom for the first time in around three years. The lake is up quite a bit from last time I was out, and appears to be up from were it has been in awhile. The wind was up most of the day. We started up the south fork around 9 am made two casts caught a nice largie around 2.5 on senko then after about 30 minutes we ran to the north fork for some reason then I caught a 1.5 spot on mm111 dropshot in 11 feet of water fished the north fork for two hours then ran back to the south fork fished there for three more hours and left those were our highlights. I tried alot of reaction to no avail (swimmers, wakers, rips etc..). I here the lake is red hot and I will be the first to say that it probably was but this cold wind has messed the bite up on many diffrent lakes so I will try again later. Hey its still fishing and I can't get enough.
    City: grass valley

    Tips: For the next couple days I would say go slow and don't give up it will get hot again. On another note the aba folsom went out today and it took over 12 to get a check and 15 to win not sure of the pattern but dartheads were mentioned as a bait. Good job winners?

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 50.5-53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went out yesturday and fished from 6:45 to 12pm with a buddy caught a total of 7 fish. worked main body in the morning caught a couple on dd22 on some points then went up north fork and caught a 4+ spot on a 6in rof12 hudd headed back out to the main body and caught a couple more on dartheads. All fish came in the 8-15ft range.
    City: roseville

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: lauched around 8am, landed one spot on main body island with hula grub, about 3 lbs, right away, then the wind came instantly, by 1pm couldnt keep the boat still in the white caps so headed home
    City: placerville

    Tips: wait for less wind. other than that conditions were good

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

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    Water Temp: 54.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I had a trip cancel for Lake Berryessa so went up to Folsom for a few hours. Did some scouting in the North Fork and caught 6 fish up to 3 lbs on Carolina rigged Robo worms. Tried reaction baits but with the storms did not pan out. This will change when the weather does.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: This lake will be great so stick with it.