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Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

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    Water Temp: 55-57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Granite Bay Sunday morning to 10mph winds and light rain. Fished North Fork, got skunked and was blown off the water by 11am. A couple hours later the weather was gorgeous so we headed back out. Followed the wind looking for shelter. Landed 1 spot split shotting and missed another one. Slow bite with the storm moving out.
    City: Reno, NV

    Tips: This week should be better weather wise.

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 57-59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Water is stained but warming up fast. Got in the water at 3 pm and fishied the north fork on the East side (warmer) using Darter Head and Drop Shot in 5-15 ft. We boated 12-15 spots and largies in three hours. The Bass are moving up and it's time for them to start. Crank-n and ripen for some anglers did will and a spinner bait. stay in the warmer waters and in shallow depth.
    City: Rocklin

    Tips: Warms work well

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: On the water at 2:30, nice spring afternoon. Worked main body south of GB launch to about halfway to Beals. Caught 4 spots total, biggest was 2 lb. 3 caught on darthead with 4" worm, 1 caught on spinnerbait. All fish in 8-12'.

    Tips: Look for rockpiles and areas near buoys, then rotate through baits and colors until you find the right combo.

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 51-53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished out of graite bay saturday. Fished the north fork the whole day for 1 small mouth on a hula grub and a couple missed strikes. caught our only fish 19ft deep first thing before the wind really picked up. threw hula grups, rip baits, cranks, senkos, spinner baits, shakey head.
    City: Reno, NV

    Tips: try something else...

Friday, March 13th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hi, this is for the person asking for help on the rip bait. I am telling you right now, go to folsom, put a Lucky craft staycee 90 on in any shad type color, then find the warmest water you can locate, hint, not in either arms where cold water flows into. Then, find points, toss swallow, and start ripping. you will catch a limit in less then 1 hr right now, and a good limit at that. hope it helps. Mesh matt Triton tr-21
    City: folsom

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: my tournament partner and i went out on my bday yes friday the 13th.Pulled up to our first spot i was tossing a spinnerbait caught 2 fish right away chris was throwing rip bait 2 caught 2 also and missed about 6 fish we also tossed jigs and worms caught a few more fish biggest fish was a small mouth on a blade over 4# our best 5 went around 13#
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Slow roll blades rip slow and work points.I would also like to think renee byer for putting our picture in the sacramento bee.

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 51-54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Found a good bite in the 10 to 15 foot range on jigs. No rip fish, mybe because I have no clue what Im doing. Seems odd the fish are so shallow with the cold water.
    City: Citrus Heights

    Tips: I could use some tips from anyone.

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 49-52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: 180 from yesterday. All shallow fish for me were gone. No bites.
    City: Cameron Park

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 49-53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished a small tournament on Sunday with around 15 teams. We managed our 5 fish limit for 9.80 with all fish on a jig. I missed 3 or 4 others bites. Caught fish from 5 feet out to 30 feet. We took 7th with 1st place at 13 something. Stassey's worked for them all day and 2nd place was with darterheads Aron's Magic. Sunday I went back for a few hours and managed 1 nice smallie and 1 nice spot on a crank bait.
    City: Lincoln

    Tips: Keep the lines wet...the more you fish the more fish you will catch.

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    Water Temp: 49 to 53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Well me and my brother decided to give it a go and try are luck got on the H20 about 1 pm and were amazed at how much the lake had gone up I started out by throwing a LiL Gorge and bam 3rd cast and got a 2 lb spott my brother was throwing a drop shot and swim bait with no luck then put on a white chatter bait and hooked up on nice spott that just plowed it a couple of more cast and bam he hooked into another . we also tryed X raps,rattle traps and dart heads but only had luck with the chatter bait and Lil Gorge we ended up with a total of fifteen biggest going 3 lbs all spotts and 2 small mouths
    City: Carmichael

    Tips: well they will be spawning soon all fish had eggs and moving in to shallow water caught fish from 3 to 15 feet cover a lot of water fish seem to be spread out

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished deeper water without success. Graphed fish anywhere from 15' to 75'. Finally, caught a 3# at ATM in 11' and a 1# at 6'.
    City: Cameron Park

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    Water Temp: 48-50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The lake is still coming up and the fish are so scatted and not biting. I used everything on my boat and found nothing that the fish wanted. The upper south fork was muddy but warmer than the North Fork. Good luck. After the bass stabilize the bite should get better.
    City: Rocklin

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Dealt with the weather and caught a couple last couple hours today. Figured it out kind of but paid the price with wetness.
    City: Cameron Park

    Tips: heavy jigs 30'+ deep. I had to raise the rod at the bottom of the waves and drop the rod at the top of the waves. If I couldn't feel the bait, I swing (batting avg .002)

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 51-54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: on the water with my wife at 2:00 to 5:00 .We caught a total of eleven fish, all 10' or less. ten on senkos and one on a chatterbait. Tried jigs but they were not hitting them. Two days ago they just hit jigs, go figure.All the fish were 1.5 to 2 lb clones,wife 7 me 4 , I quit.
    City: Granite Bay

    Tips: wacky with 6 lb fluoro dykertchaikovsky's

Friday, February 27th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 49.8

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: TOUGH. 1 bite in 18' and missed it at ATM. Fished last couple hours of the day. Better a few weeks ago for me. I was able to fish same time frame with 2 bites in 11'/15' and 1 landed in my "go to winter spot."
    City: Cameron Park

    Tips: I saw a lot of boats driving around which told me they were not on a bite either. No one around me caught anything.

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Big ramp now open! still 5 mph but officalss say that it looks like Saturday for the lifting of the 5 mph speed limit.

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Water level is up 5 feet in one day. The lower ramp is now flush with lake level leaving two trucks with boat trailers wet. Two guys are in for a big surprise when they get off the water. We need a few more feet to launch from the next ramp
    City: Granite bay

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

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    Water Temp: 49-51.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think folsom has turned on yet.

    Fished Friday from 1-4. calm and sunny, marking scattered fish in 15-30ft. couldn't get bit on deep cranks, jigs or dartheads.

    Saturday brought the storm in. Fished from 10-3p with no bites again. Imainly fished a rof12 hudd while my buddy was throwing a darter. Water was 49 by the dam and 51 by the dyke (didn't go up the forks). Fish were marking shallower than the previous day between 10-25 ft, but weren't feeling bitey. I have a feeling we missed the bite window.

    I would say that judging by the lack of schooling fish on points or steep walls, the pre-spawn hasn't turned on yet. Perhaps after this next storm rolls through it will be game on.

    Keep those reports coming in guys.
    City: EDH

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Granite Bay is open, I don't have 4 wheel drive and can launch just fine. Give it a shot, just watch out for submerged rocks close to shore.
    City: Rocklin

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: launched at granite bay around 8am. dragged a robo worm 15 to 20 feet deep. caught a 3 pound spot. switched to a dart head caught one more at 30'. scoped no bait balls all day. off the water at 1pm. 25 car/trailers in lot.
    City: carmichael