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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: went out last sunday from 7-10 caught 5 fish biggest was 4 plus all nice fat spots other 4 around 3 pounds. throwing jigs in main body flats 20-30 feet. Went out on wednesday from 8-2 caught 9 fish biggest just over 3 most in the 2 and a half range same thing as before main bady flats this time all fish in the 20 foot range. Tried north fork rattlesnake and back to main body no hits. Most of the fish had little color almost white I think they have just started coming up from deep.
    City: roseville

    Tips: brown and purple brown and cinnamon jigs in the main body flats seem to work for me. Cast them and work em or drag them. fish seem to be slowley moving shallower.

Monday, February 18th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Question. Lake Natoma not listed. Anything happening from Negro Bar to the prison wire?
    City: Folsom

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 47-53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Yes the tempature veried all over the Lake. The South Fork was the coldest and the main body and over to dike 8 and around was in the 54 degs. Tom Erickson and I got a smallie in 25-30 ft with a Brown/Purple Capt Jack's Jig. Just drag it around the small rocks and dirt. This time of the year look the warmest water and work out. No bites on worms, leaches or ? Lake is still coming up slow.
    City: Rocklin

    Tips: work it slow and go down deep.

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 47-48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Pretty much same for me as the 2 previous posts. From 10am to 4pm fished all over main body using plastics (dropshotting and texas), jigs, and smaller swimbaits. No bites. Marked several stacks of fish deep at 60-70' on steep dropoffs off western shore but jigs didn't work. With the temp at the mouth of north fork at 46 I didn't try there.
    City: Penryn, CA

    Tips: Maybe better when weather changes in few days.

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    Water Temp: 47-50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: As I read the previous post, I though to myself....did I already post a report? Almost an identical day. Fished main body including damn and peninsula with nothing in the well. Spent 10am-2pm on the water. One bite on a spinnerbait...could have been bottom/tree stump. Tried spinners, chatters, jerks, jigs, drop shots and swimbaits. Nada. Didn't meter much fish either which leads me to believe they are still hanging out in deeper water and waiting to move shallow. Water temp reached 51 at one point but no fish around.
    City: Rocklin

    Tips: None here.

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished on Saturday for 3 1/2 hrs from 12:30-4:00. Nothing, it has been awhile since I said that one. Not one bit today. fished main body near Mormon island/dyke 8 area(48-50degree) and pennesula(51-52degree), fished everywhere from 2ft-30ft. hit humps, island tops, brush piles, points. I tried too hard to get a reaction bit with the jerk bait LC ghost and shad colors. Senko, Swimbait, crankbait a no go. Even tried dragging a 1/2oz jig around too. I did not try drop shot or dart head. Looks like you need to stick with the dart head and drop shot until it gets warmer. I did not mark that many fish at all. Tells me they are stacked up when you find them. Kinda scary.
    City: El Dorado hills

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 49.1

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: well gate didnt open till almost 7:30 and after launching my boat someone in a ranger launched right into mine but bite was good caught some nice largemouth fish are moving shallow and reaction bite is starting look for warmer water
    City: Roseville

    Tips: to the guy in the ranger you dont need 30 feet of rope to get your boat in the water

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 49-51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The last week has been very tough. Nothing on swimbaits or even jigs. I started fishing deeper and got a few on darterhead worms and some smaller fish on dropshot. With the weather the last week I figure it would be off the hook, not!
    City: Granite Bay

    Tips: for any chance of a bite, rock piles that drop into deep water.

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    Water Temp: 48+

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Press release from the State Weather Department of Water Conservation and Lake Level Control Research Data Committee: It hasn't rained in a week. It's feeding on snow melt and higher elevation lakes. It'll be a slow rise until we get more rain.
    City: Rocklin

    Tips: Go catch fish.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: It looks like they're holding the lake at 389 feet after it rose about a foot a day for the last 10days or so..I wonder if they're holding water in the above dams for Los Angeles Area?
    City: EDH

    Tips: Don't have any!!

Friday, February 8th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 46-48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out about 9:00am on Friday only caught 4 fish. best one 3lb. spot. All fish came from the main body on drop shot in 8-15 feet of water on green and brown worms. defiantly not red hot but picking up.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: rocky points

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out in the back seat of my friends boat, fished mostly main lake areas around browns ravine. We caught 5 fish all day fishing shallow 2-14 ft. Actually I only caught 1 No reaction bite yet but I bet it is coming soon! I Want to thank Jim Novotny for taking me out during my cheno treatments and giving me a much needed day of fishing! Thank you Jim you are a Great friend
    City: Fair Oaks

    Tips: Fish slow for now

Friday, February 1st, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: If anyone is interested folsom water is on the rise slowly here is a website that show water flows when it gets to 400ft above sea level no more 5mph
    http://cdec2.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryFx?FOL
    City: Roseville

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Not much bass action but the rainbow trout are chasing jigs. Had one 28 incher surface chasing my jig on the retrieve and hooked another 18-20 incher that I'm going to cook tonight....again on the brown jig in about 8 feet of water.
    City: Rocklin

    Tips: Take trout gear and find them in 5-25 feet of water around rocks and points.

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

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    Water Temp: ???????

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Same type of bite as last January, But way different way different water conditions.
    City: antelope

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 43-47

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got out on the water about 8am on Saturday, lots of boats on the water. Temperature change is waaaay closer than usual, before rattlesnake. Bite was ,we boated 7 fish up to 3.5 saw Elk Grove Bass out there and everyone was saying bite had been tuff. Jigs seemed to be key, no dropshot bite, all solid fish I think the lake is going to be turning on here soon, or maybe already has.
    City: Orangevale

    Tips: 20-30 ft, fish reallll slow. Some fish up shallower 0-10 but not consistent.

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: i knew bite was going to be tough so started spooning caught a few salmon right away and a couple bass the bass were almost white.finally went back to old school and dragged a worm and started catching fish.
    City: roseville

    Tips: fish slow and change up your baits.

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: How can you say the lake is raising a foot a day when this is the level that it been for almost 2 mo.See below.
    I work at Folsom and thewre isnt any raise that as i can see.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: Date / Time RES ELE STORAGE OUTFLOW INFLOW
    (PST) FEET AF CFS CFS
    01/02/2008 06:00 372.04 222151 138 699
    01/02/2008 07:00 372.06 222243 137 1257
    01/02/2008 08:00 372.08 222335 138 1258
    01/02/2008 09:00 372.09 222381 137 698
    01/02/2008 10:00 372.11 222474 264 1384
    01/02/2008 11:00 372.09 222381 1529 415
    01/02/2008 12:00 -- -- -- --
    01/02/2008 13:00 372.07 222289 1586 1030
    01/02/2008 14:00 372.05 222197 1632 518
    01/02/2008 15:00 -- -- -- --
    01/02/2008 16:00 372.02 222058 1626 512
    01/02/2008 17:00 --

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    Water Temp: 47-49

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: the lake is coming up a foot a day, with more rain coming this week the lake should get more water.
    Some of my friends went out for the first day of 2008 and did ok with crankin, swimbaits, Jigs and worms.
    Stayed in the main body in 15-25 ft of water and draging slow. Some bass were found in the South and North fork.
    Jigs in Brown/Purple or Back/Purple with a double tail grub is the ticket.
    Check out my website captjacksfishingjigs.com
    City: Rocklin

    Tips: still look for bait,spoons and Jigs

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 46

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished for a few hours, nothing but trout chasing drop-shot worms to the surface when reeling in. Hit a rock pile with the prop on the way in. Lake is getting dangerously low and contrary to the previous post, is not gaining 1ft of water a day. Check http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=FOL for daily lake levels.

    Needless to say, we're done with Folsom until Spring runoff fills the puddle.
    City: Carmichael

    Tips: Don't launch at Folsom until water levels come up again.