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Saturday, August 19th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 70 isah

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started out with jigs and darts. No contact, later on found out water did not start being drawn until I left early. Weighted senkos did not get it on, went back to darts, orange color got two 3 pounders right away. Wtaer skiers tore up the area, no more bites. Decided to call it a day because of high pressure system and lack of current.
    City: sacto

    Tips: Every dayt can be different. Get a heads up on the weather and check with water resourc3es for draw down times. No one gets thems all the time. Good luck, jimbo

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 78.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hit the water at 4 pm off at 9:30 pm. First time on Folsom in about a year. Slow fishing. Managed a 3 and my friend managed a 2.5 off the peninsula bushes around sunset. 2 other dinks. Fish caught on split shot 4" worm and senko. Friend had one blowup on buzz bait up the south fork.

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    Water Temp: 70 ish

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Tossed spook early, no takers. Wind had changed from wed. Day felt unsettled from previous day, fish knew it and changed their feeding regime. Senkos did not fall properly, went to darts and jigs on protected structure that always has fish present. Largest was 3.5 spot, rest were 2 pounders with a couple of threes.
    City: sacto

    Tips: Weather changes day to day and folsom can be a hard one. If things are not the same as the day before, go to a second game plan with conditons.
    Totally different bag today. Good fishing, jimbo

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

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    Water Temp: duh

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Sarted out top water,seven keepers over deep and shallow. Water was being pulled by dam, went to outside dropoff from 14Ft to 100+ feet. Unweighted senkos, long time dropping but paid off with over seventeen pounds. Fish were suspended facing current. Most hits at approx. 15-25 ft. 5 pounders were deeper, about 30 feet.
    City: sacto

    Tips: Keep an eye out for pulling water now as it is uaually a daily occurrence. Fis to fish facing current, slow presentation, flourocarbon six pound a must. Line stops, reel in slack, pressure, set the hook in a sweeping motion. Be sure to set your drag. Good luck, Jimbo

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: FISHED SOUTH FORK AND MAIN LAKE WITH SENKO'S IN BROWN AND GREEN. ALL FISH TAKEN BY TREES AND WEEDS; ALSO SOME TAKEN ON ROCKY POINTS NEAR NEW YORK COVE. OFF LAKE AT 1100 HRS. WIND AT 10 MPH, BUT NOT BAD IN COVES.
    City: CARMICHAEL

    Tips: USE PLASTICS (LARGE)

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    Water Temp: 80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Please help me Capt Jack - need some tips. Fished Folsom - went out the night of 14th did not catch one fish used topwater and spilt shot on rock piles and tree tops. Fished from about 10 feet to 50 feet. most of the time fished about half of that depth. I came in late. Ranger didn't find me - I said I was looking for my friends he said ok.

    Tips: no tips - need help!

Friday, August 11th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 75-81

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Just a little nite fishing with Dennis Howard from 5pm to 9pm. Fished the South Fork in New York Cove using worms on split shot. At near dark we switched to small spooks and even small Norman crankbait. We mainly stayed on points and banks with deep water near. We went home with releacing about 10 bass from 1/2 lb to 4.0 pounds. Not a bad summer nite.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: Work'em slow and small around rocks.

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

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    Water Temp: unk

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Full moon, set 0800. NE wind early then slicked off at thermal change.Fished top water for a few strikes, not as vicious as earlier in the week. Moved up north fork to main channel drop off, caught good fish to five pounds(black) on purple i/4 oz dart heads, Aaron's. Left at 10:00 a.m. Brown's Ravine was still locked till at least quarter past six so I launched at dike eight.
    Bite seems to be different each day, change uo try something new, good luck.
    City: Sacto

    Tips: Chance to experiment

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    Water Temp: 75-81

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Just add water and Folsom Lake has it. Move around until you find the fish. Go shallow, deep , around the trees, points and big and small rocks. Most of the bass I found were small but fun for this time of the year. I went out at three until 7:30pm and got 12 or so and missed just as meny. small worms, lizards with a split shot. good luck
    City: rocklin

    Tips: fish all over the lake

Monday, August 7th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 61-65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: This is the Folsom report page, but since there is not a NATOMA page I'll give you guys a heads up here. After fishing the Frog deal this weekend, I had to go prove to myself that I knew what a good Bass looked like. Out this morning at about 9 AM at the Nimbus launch and found two quick keeper Largemouths on a spinnerbait. After a little while I picked up a 1/2 oz. brown jig w/ a Yammy Cinnamon trailer and put a keeper Smally and a 3.75 Largemouth. Down a little further to a spot that has held so many big fish over the years for me and "BAM" a 5.25 lb. Mule (Spot/Smally hybrid) on the same spinnerbait. Had a few other jig bites, but things really slowed down when the water stopped moving. Best 5 for about 15 lbs. Off by 1:30
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Natoma has a "tide" like the Delta that bottoms out everyday around 10 AM and crests every night about 11 PM. When the water is moving the fish get real active and look to feed on the over abundance of crawdads in this lake. Spinnerbaits and jigs work well this time of year around any piece of wood along the bank. This is a 5 MPH lake and you cannot run your gas motor below Willow Creek, so if you launch at the Nimbus Dam launch, it is electric up to the middle of the lake. Launch at Negro Bar and it is 5 MPH down to Willow Creek. Keep on plugging, you may only get 5-8 bites, but they will all be good fish.

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

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    Water Temp: ??? fished from

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went out with my friend at about noon and fished till 4. We caughed 6 fish all day. My friend caught 5 and i only caught 1 but he was using my stuff so we didnt have a tournament. But we fished to the right of Granite Bay boat launch. Used a secret soft plastic that we fished with a bullet weight non peged. We used it around the trees my friend caught 2 fish over 3 pounds and mine will i would rather not say how big, but it put up a good fight.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: fish next 2 trees and fish them hard not 1 or 2 casts and change your presentation each cast

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 82

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: CAUGHT THREE, TWO SPOTS ON DROP SHOT AND ONE LARGE MOUTH ON SENKO. ALL WERE 12" DINKS.

Friday, August 4th, 2006

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    Water Temp: didnot check

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: 16lbs, action to 1200 noon, acvtive fish shallow, top water great until noon. Pick your area from spawn to deeper. Fast action baits the call of the day followed by jigs or darts on missed strikes. good luck
    City: sacramento

    Tips: Use eight pound seguar line with loop knot for right action.

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out around 3pm started off around some hazards by folsom point caught a few nice 2lb spots went across to some more hazards and just started wackin them on a drop shot 4 and 6 inch aarons magic caught 37 in all it was a great day on folsom fishing has not been like this for a while. I was off the water at around 8:30 my biggest fish was a 4lb smallie that faught like hell best five would have went 16lbs
    City: orangevale

    Tips: all i have to say is rock piles they are holding in about 5-10ft good luck

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 84-86

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took the GF out for a morning of fishing at Folsom. First time out on Folsom. Launched out of Granite Bay at 6:30am and headed up the North Fork Arm. Started out on some rocky banks and points catching 1 dink on a dartheaded roboworm. Then had trolling motor problems. After we figured out how to get it going again, we headed up further and tried to fish trees. Had 2 good size fish, 2 pound healthy guys. 1 Largemouth and 1 smallie/spot hybrid (it was bronze with spot like features on top) 1 on a wacky senko and the other on a dartheaded MM Robo. Threw a spook out on an island and had a fish blast it 2 feet into the air, but, no hookup :( Had several other followers and swirls, but, they weren't commiting. Quiet for the rest of the day. Got off the water around 11:30am. The topwater is definitely there, we just didn't throw it enough.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Could use some. Tried to read through the Folsom reports and only really picked up the tree tip. Anyhow, thought I'd report and help out. Dartheaded MMIII robos.

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: got on the water at around 5:30. a little windy on the main lake so we went up the south fork. started the day off with spooks and popper. by 8:00 we had 9 keeper around the 2 pounds. after that we picked up a jig and had a good jig bite going. untill around noon off the water by 1:00 and went back to sleep. biggest fish went 4 1/2 lb best five went 15 pounds had a pretty good day.
    City: sacramento

    Tips: best color spooks were white. jigs were red with gold flakes. good luck

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fish the trees!!
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    Hey Scott
    Keep up the good work buddy. Your reports are always welcome here.
    City: sacto

    Tips: If you dont like it, LEAVE!

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Thanks Kev! Now maybe Scott will stop promoting the FOLSOM BASS LEAGUE every time he has a tourney. Quit bitchin about the public using this state park for recreational activities. It's getting old. We had this lake to ourselves for the past 6 months.
    FISHING REPORT: 6:00am launched out of G-Bay. 5 spots caught on a splash it and partner caught 3 on a buzz bait by 8:00am. Darthead and drop shot robos the rest of the am. Total of maybe 20 fish up to 3lbs. Off the water by 11:00am
    Good luck
    City: Folsom

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: FIRST OFF, I KNOW I SHOULD NOT USE THE FISHING REPORT FOR THIS MESSAGE AND WILL NOT IN THE FUTURE UNLESS I SEE OTHERS ABUSING THIS FISHING REPORT. THE SUBMISSION RULES ARE VERY SIMPLE. 1. SIMPLY, LET'S KEEP IT TO FISHING. (SO, IF YOU SAY THAT UNSAFE ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE POSTED ON A FISHING REPORT THEN GET THE SUBMISSION RULES CHANGED, OTHERWISE - SIMPLY LET,S KEEP IT TO FISHING.
    2. THE REPORTS AREA IS NOT FOR ADVERTISING, ETC.
    THIS RULE HAS BEEN VIOLATED LATELY.

    FINALLY, IN THE SUBMISSION RULES IT IS STATED, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT SOMETHING, PLEASE USE OUR FISHING FORUMS.

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

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    Water Temp: hot

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I had an interesting day. First 4 fish of the day on the jig weighed 40+. It sucks that they were all catfish. 2 in the 5 to 6 pound range, one 14 and one that bottomed out a 15lb spring scale. All of the fish were on the same flat in 3-10 feet of water. Finally got my first bass when I went deep. Got 20 or so the rest of the day keying on offshore drop offs and rock piles. Top 5 were arround 14-15, not including the wisker fish. Hey Capt. Kev, How many non fishing reports have you submitted in the lately? Enough said, Practice what you preach.

    Tips: "REPORT SUBMISSION RULES: Simply, let's keep it about fishing and reports of your day on the water." And reports of your day on the water. So if you are fishing and something else happens shouldn't it fall under the rules of the forum, such as to much boat traffic or unsafe conditions. The guy "Capt. Kev" that posts to complain about other peoples posts are violating the rules, not the guys that are adding details about their trip that are part of their experience on the lake. Take the and out of between fishing and reports then you are right Capt. Kev, but like you said, if you don't like it get the rules changed. My email is still the same if you would like to contact me. See you this winter Scott. FBL rules.