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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: got out on the water after 6am first boat out started with reaction baits nothing so went to dropshot caught a few nice fish bite is starting to turn on pretty good 5 biggest fish for around 12 pounds
    City: roseville

    Tips: the bigger fish are biting alot of bait in the water even the trout i caught spit up bait dropshot dont shake your worm just lift

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Folsom Lake last Saturday and had six fish for 9.5 pounds. Nothing spectacular but very few fishermen were catching anything. Not a bad bag for the conditions and water level. Had to stay with the same pattern for six hours to squeak out six fish.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Carolina Rig with a half ounce barrel weight with an eight pound leader 4 feet long. I fished a berkeley gulp worm in green pumpkin and fished a watermelon red brush hog in 20-30' of water. The key to getting the active fish was to fish windy banks with bass in the bait balls. If you found fish without bait around they would not go. The key was to keep coming back through the bait and bass as they moved and fish very thoroughly. Do not spend your time running around. When you find the bait and bass stay there and keep milking it.

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Alright, the bass are not in feeding mode. Spent 3 hours on the water this morning and got one lousy shaker on a green/silver worm drop shotting. We tried chatters, swimbaits, spinners, spoons, lipless cranks and jigs. Anyone been able to catch a decent amount of fish in this last week? I think we are getting killed by the barometric pressure. It's finaly on the downtick as I write this so hopefully the fall bass'n will pick up this week....not sure if I'll make it out though.
    City: Rocklin

    Tips: Don't eat yellow snow.

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: played hookie friday and sure glad I did. Was able to find quality fish feeding on bait balls in 25-35ft. best areas were close to deep water. the bite was almost every cast from 11am-12:30pm. did best on drop shot and dragging. stuck out spooning. Caught 13 spots and 2 smallies; best 5 going around 12-13 lbs.
    City: EDH

    Tips: don't pee on the electric fence

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: went out today with my daughter drop shot all fish worked water from 20' to 40' small 4 inch worms soft bite caught a nice 3 pound smallmouth jumped right in the boat.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: there were about 10 bass boats out today didnt see anyone else catch anything anyone care to share there day email me

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Friday, Saturday and Sunday this weekend and it got progressivly worse day by day. The barometric pressure was on a big climb from the storm front moving in (it's here as I type). Friday put a few fish on the boat dropshotting the main body (only fished 1.5 hrs). Saturday yeilded a half dozen between 1-3 lbs. Mainly caught on the drop shot and a nice one on a chatterbait thrown near the rocky shore. Hopefully this pressure will drop and the fall bass'n will pick up.
    City: Rocklin

    Tips: Notice how I didn't report the fish count for Sunday? Only positive thing that comes to mind is at least the boat still floats. At least I have the juevos to post when its bad fishin instead of just bragging when it's good.

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the main body and the beginning of the S. fork today. Started around 9. Found all my action on steep points, mostly around the dam and islands. Biggest one was 3 with followers around 7. Caught fish dropshotting and S.B's
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Fish early and work the islands.

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 63-64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We started fishing by the dock had to put new bunks on the boat so i had my son start fishing and didnt catch anything. Then we went up the north fork and found tons of bait and my son caught one on a hula grub dragging it on the bottom. the color was brown. only one fish today my son skunked me but its ok.
    City: roseville

    Tips: fish slow and if theres bait there fish and paint your jig heads brown it resimbles a cradad better

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took the daughter out fishing so wasn't too serious today. Stuck with drop shotting, she does pretty well with that, she is only 5. We went all the way up the north fork and managed to catch 7 fish in about 4 hours. The biggest being 3 pounds. It turned out to be a beautiful day despite the rain in the morning.
    City: Rosevile

    Tips: No tips from me!! I only have confidence in a few areas and trying to broden my knowledge, just need to find some people to fish with during the week...

Monday, October 15th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Real fishermen dont put doun other fishermen. I happen to know Jim scarlet and why should he lie. Jim fishes alone and thats his way of enjoying his retirement I have fished with him before and the man has patience more then most guys I know including me, and hes put me on big fish. but to call him a lier is just plain stupid, why should he take pics to prove to anyone. plus how many on here has used his reports and scored well, if you didnt then oh well thats folsom love it or hate it. Or better yet tell that to Kent Brown or a few others that score well on that pond . There are a lot of big fish in Folsom but there not stupid.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: Learn how to fish Folsom, before you call others liers and such

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 67.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water around 1pm and headed for the off shore dyke 8 area. Metered a ton of bait and fish in the 20-40ft range but no takers. We then went to the dam and picked up 4 shakers (less than 1 pound) on the left side of the dam in 20 feet of water around 3pm. Around 4:30 we proceeded to the area between Beals Pt and GB launch and began metering some fish (30-45 feet). Picked up 3 nicer sized fish up to 3 lbs. My buddy, Matt (aka Mateo), hooked a Rainbow Trout on the dropshot on it's way down!(pumpkin worm) We put the fish (14-16 inches)in the live well thinking we may eat it but ended up releasing it to fight another day. All in all, a decent day. Weather was great and no wind.
    City: Rocklin

    Tips: All fish were caught on the drop shot. We tried spinners, crawdads and lipless cranks but the fish (come to find out) were deeper and finicky.

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: got out late a few boats were out went up north stayed fishing in about 30 to 60 feet im sure fish were up slallow just getting ready for the tournament season
    City: roseville

    Tips: drop shot and spooned all my fish caught 2 fish today on 2 hook drop shot rig what a fight.

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went out about 9 am and decided to go to the north fork and try to retrieve a pole i lost a couple months ago no luck but ohwell so started dropshotting caught a 5 pound spot and about 17 fish total all fish were caught on a 3 inch worm caught about 14 pounds for 5 fish.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: fish 20 to 40 feet weed through the small fish enjoy anyone like to go out in the mid week let me know i have more days off during the week

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out from 10-4 up the north fork. Caught 11 fish, only two of them between 2-3 pounds. Dropshotting with margarita mutilator seemed to produce the most fish.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: This is my first time posting on here. I just got a boat and back into fishing. I started tuning into this sight and about gave up on it because of all the back and forth between a few people. What's the deal. Can't you guys just e-mail each other if you have a problem instead of involving everyone? Thanks

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 66.9

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Cold mornings by the sun came out moving the bass back up in 20 ft of water. Quency and I found some small bass @ Beal's Point around the rocks using drop shot and split shot. Went out to the main point in 30-50 ft by the wind sock using a JK Jig in watermelon red flake and a Green pumkin. No reaction bite.
    City: Rocklin

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at GB around 8am and headed to the main body. We found a drop shot pattern that worked fairly well while metering the bait. Picked up 11 fish. Most were 1-2 range and had two fish in the 2-3 range. Best five 11 lbs.
    City: Rocklin

    Tips: Pumpkin colored berkely worms and senkos were on.

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 3:00 to 6:30 pm first hour and a half no bites throwing top water and jigs. Finally stuck a two pounder on the jig across from the G B launch. Then looked for rockpiles around the peninsula, if you find the piles you will find the fish.I ended up with seven fish, the largest being the first two pounder. Probably 8.5 lbs for best five. All fish on jigs, 4'' hula grubs.
    City: Sacto

    Tips: With 8.5 lbs I'm not qualified to give advice.
    P.S. I'm going to miss Jimbo, he reminded me of my Grand Pappy ( spent 5 years in prison for perjury )

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: This is a fishing reports page people, please follow the guidelines set forth by Westernbass.COM and refrain from chatting and using this page like e-mail. ALL posts by Jim Scarlett will be deleted as mandated by Westernbass.COM.
    City: Oakley

    Tips: If you have a problem with this, my e-mail is above, feel free to contact me and we can discuss your issues with how we choose to run our website.

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the FBT TOC on Folsom and the Delta this past weekend. Came in 3rd overall. On Folsom, we were one of a few teams to weigh in a limit. Most did not weigh a limit. Our fish came between 25 and 35 feet on a 1-ton jig (1 ounce football head jig) with a 4" twin tail Yamamoto Hulagrub in Green Pumpkin. We managed to catch 8 keepers on this rig. Tried dropshot, spoons, ripbaits and spooks without success although this is my favorite time of year for spooning at Folsom. Our limit was not very big because we never stuck a kicker fish but it kept us in the TOC chase.
    City: Fair Oaks

    Tips: Fished the 1-ton off main lake points close to the main channel coming out of the south fork. In view of the 5mph BS imposed by government, we felt it was important to keep a line wet so we didn't run far from Browns. Had the limit by 9 AM.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: For those of you who do not believe my claim that Jim Scarlet is a LIAR, here's a quote from a report right here, which I have left for all to see by the way, that proves this:
    "I can't send to you because I( have been bl0ocked by Cooche." Ya see, I banned him, he said so himself!
    City: Oakley

    Tips: Jim Scarlett, you are a liar! Have a good life!