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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 50-53Deg.

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Today school co-opperated with my fishing schedual and let me start my day at around 3. as we launched my buddies pro-v by tracker we trolled around the Granite bay launch and only picked up 2 spots, 1 1/2, 2-3 pounder. we quickly figured out the bight, it was drop shot with morning dawn and jig with single grub trailer brown. we headed straight acrossed the lake to a rock pile we had on GPS and fished that and i quickly picked up 3 more spots in the 1 1/2-3 pound range. we moved over near the other launch and fished a deep cove that seemed to have some bait circulating through it. my buddy mike picked up 2 jig spots same size. at dark we ran back to the Granite bay launch and fished the beach area and the creek channel near the launch. RIGHT AFTER sun set i pick up a nice 4.3 pound spot on a fat-A crank bait. that made for a decent day of fishing. thanx loomis kid
    City: roseville

    Tips: drop shot morning dawn, jig hula grubs in browns and purple, crank ur crank baits fast with a 10 second pause. they are hitting the crankbait when it stops.

Monday, February 21st, 2005

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    Water Temp: 49-51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Back on Folsom to find the bass I missed on saturday at 9am with Quency. We started just out on the rocks in front of Granite Bay ramp using 4" lizards in green pumkin and a morning dawn leach. Before the rain came we got some small spots in 10-15 ft on rocks. We made our way to another rocky area that had a flat and droped into 30 ft. When the rain and winds came we had 9 spots and 1 largie. Most of the bass were on the flat with large rocks. No bits on jigs or rip baits.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: split shots with a 3 ft leader and slow. white ears worm.

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 47.5-51.2

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The day started out with the sun for the fisherman from Basin Bass Masters. Seventeen boats out at 6:45am, light winds to none frist part of the morning. The winds came in at noon and then the rain. With the weather changing it made fishing tought for some and good for others. 3:pm weightin was windy and wet, five teams came in with limits and some with none. The winning weight was 14.+ lbs for the best five. Morning bite was on a crank bait, rip bait. Other fish came on worms, lizards, jigs and hula grubs using dart heads. Draging your bait slow aroung rocks with drop offs.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: use hula grub on a jig head (football) and worms on a dart head. Brown and purple plastic baits.

Thursday, February 17th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 50.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Wow Folsom is on fire, seems like someone fliped the light switch on those spots and smallies! By far this was my best trip ever to folsom, I started over on beals point and worked my way all the way to granite by the low water ramp, switching between a 6" warmouth robo and a yamamoto spider grub from the bank down to 15 ft. I caught 13 between 1.97 and 3.64 mostly around 2 3/4 lb.fish but i caught 2 stud smallies at 4.09 and 4.32 on the robo worm. I was feeling lucky so I ran up by rattlesnake and boy was it on fire!! I caught 7 fish in the bend across from the ramp between 2.93 and 3.77 lbs. my best 5 went just over 19 lbs. my best day before today was just over 12 lbs last march.
    City: Rocklin

    Tips: 6" warmouth robo worms on 1/4 oz. darter heads. 10 lb test big game line. and the fish really wanted the worm worked really fast. but the jig fish were more of a slower deal. Hopefully this will help someone else enjoy a day like today. oh yeah some guy was throwing a white buzzbait up at rattle snake and said he had caught 3 on it ?? go figure?

Sunday, February 13th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 50-52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: WENT OUT SAT&SUN VERY NICE DAY ON SAT. GOT TWO SPOTS ON PERSUADER JIGS,1/2 OZ BOTH ABOUT 2 LB,S.TRIED JIGS AGAIN SUN. LIGHT RAIN OFF AND ON MISSED A COUPLE OF BIGHTS ON JIGS SO TRIED SOME TUBE BAITS IN 5-10 FT.GOT THREE 2 LB SPOTS, ALSO THREW CRANKS BUT NO TAKERS,MY GIRLFRIEND KARYN NAILED HERE FIRST SPINNERBAIT BASS IN SHALLOW WATER
    City: ORANGEVALE

    Tips: JIGS IN 25 TO 40 FT SLOW OR TUBE BAITS IN SHALLOW DRAGGING BOTTOM

Saturday, February 12th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 50.1

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: got there at 7:30a.m. went up the north fork and could not get a bite.came to some water that we have done good on befor and got 14 lbs for are best five. we had a limite of smallmouth and a couple of spots.are bigest fish was a spoted bass that went 3.22lbs. are bigest smallmouth bass was 3.11lbs. we caught 15 fish over 2.00lbs. most of them were smallmouth.
    City: Lincoln, CA

    Tips: fish in about 32-40 feet of water this is the best time to go to the lake.

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    Water Temp: 54.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Had to work a four hour shift so I did not get on the water till 3:00 pm and fished till dark. Since there was not alot of time I did not run alot. Much better than my past few quick trips, fish are starting to move up and then spread out. Better fish in 10-14 feet of water. Caught 6 bass and a big ole land locked salmon.
    City: Carmichael

    Tips: Carolina rig watermelon red baby brush hog got 3 nice fish and my main line broke on the set on the 4th fish, one that I never saw. 3 on a Luckey craft CB 300 crank at dark and the Salmon ate a Stasybe 90 sp ver 2 in Ghost. Fish appeared to be scattered over flats and anywhere you could find a buch of large boulders in 8-10 foot you had a fish or two. Stayed on the main body all afternoon.

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went up for the afternoon and ripped around for a while but didn't get anything so I went over by Beals point and found fish in a creek channel from 22 to 32 ft. deep suspended. I threw a 1-1/2oz. chartuese pearl white spoon out and started ripping in of the bottom. About the third rip I got slammed by a 3lb. smallie. After catching and releasing 6 big smallmouth and several nice spots on spooning and drop-shotting Basstrix shad bait fry,I headed home.
    City: Sac.

    Tips: Although there are quite a few fish staging shallow, there are still good fish in deeper water. They seem to be suspended so try dropshotting about 3 to 5 feet up and rip a spoon way off the bottom to get their attention.

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 49-50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Folsom from Noon until Dark. Spent a lot of time looking for fish. Caught one small keeper up North and one small Keeper down south. Steep Points seemed to be the key but it was hard to find a pattern with so few bites. Tried Darterhead, Carolina Rig, Cranking, Blading, and Jigs. My buddy did hook an 18" Salmon dragging a worm.
    City: Orangevale

    Tips: Caught the two fish on Jigs, dragging real slow. Not much of a bite, just a small "thump". Bass bites are scarce at Folsom right now...

Saturday, February 5th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Spent the day trying something I don't do often..........jigs! I had no bites and only marked a few fish in the south arm and by the spillway! I hope to hit Folsom later this week and continue to work on the cold water approach to bass. Maybe I will try some C4!
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Folsom is on the rise, get ready for the fishing to get better!

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    Water Temp: 45-48 deg

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Jigs was the lure for the for most of my morning. Dart heads with hula grubs also. working in 25 to 35 ft of water on flats and deep drop offs. North fork around to brown's, main body. The warmer water is something to look for. Work them slow or just sit on them.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: brown/purple jigs or brown/brown

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: beautiful day on the dead sea. Took my lovely wife marian out to the lake. She enjoyed the sun and trees. We fished deep and slow like everybody tells me to do. We did this for 5 hours. Then we went home.
    City: orangevale

    Tips: berryessa,berryessa,berryessa. One hour drive to markley launch ramp and $13.oo dollar ramp fee and you can catch 15 keepers a day.

Sunday, January 30th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 48-49

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fished northfork sunday,got five spots and two smallies,two of the spots went three and a half to four lbs,one smallmouth went three lbs,all were qaulity fish was nice to see the sunshine.Got all fish on 3/8 football head jigs with watermelon red skirted twintail grubs 35 to 40 feet very slow.
    City: Orangvale

    Tips: fish deep and slow,tried shallow on saturday with only two small bites the qaulity fish are deep.

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    Water Temp: 43-44.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Eveybody in town was out, sun and some fish. I fished flats with deep drop offs in the main body. Using a 1/2 oz brown/purple jig with a brown grub. Got four small spots and a 9 lb cat in 33 ft of water. Nice sunny, light winds day on the water.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: fish very slow 20-35 ft.

Saturday, January 22nd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 43-45

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got out to the lake late trying to avoid the fog, but at 10am the fog was still thick. Lanched out of Granite Bay, the water is still coming up 1/2 aday. Quency and I fished the deep rock piles just out in front near the floating bath room in 30-45 ft. The word is out that somebody early got a 7.5 lb largie that morning. No winds to 5 mph. We went over to Beals Point, then to the left side of the Dam (zero). We found some fish over near Dyke 8, but no bits. Moving to the wind shock area, seen fish a the graph, no bits. The fog never lift, only three bits and no fish. Folsom will be slow until the end of Feb. Good luck.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: find the fish and fish slow

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 47-48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing for bass was slow, got three solid hits on a 1/2 oz jig and caught two of them. Both were spots, 10-15 feet deep. Fished the main body.
    City: livermore

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I have kept a very detailed diary of every Folsom trip I took last year.Because I live three minutes from the launch it allows me to fish more than the average person.The following is a summary of totals, hope a few find it useful.
    January 1 2004 to December 31 2004
    95 total trips, 366 hours of time on the water, total of 810 fish caught. Jan.-Feb. 38 fish caught,13 trips. Mar.-Apr. 353 fish caught,31 trips [ April was awesome ]May-June 219 fish caught,15 trips. July-Aug. 85 fish caught,12 trips. Sept.- Oct. 88 fish caught,16 trips.Nov.-Dec. 27 fish caught,8 trips total.As you can see spring is the time to go.
    City: Granite Bay

    Tips: lots of three hour trips after work

Tuesday, January 18th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: 18.23lbs for Mike Tuck For the WIN!!!!!!
    Folsom Lake Bass League is doing A tourny on Sunday the 22nd out of Browns Ravine. Great group of anglers. Did not have time to prefish and with weights like this being weighed I will be Duck hunting. Check their web sit for info folsombassleague.com
    City: Sac

Saturday, January 15th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 43.3-44.2

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The guys and I from Basin Bass Masters had a turkey shoot. The fog was thick most of the morning, no winds and the lake is rising fast. Mike and I frist fished near Beal's Point, trying to find the dam even with a GPS. Using brown/purple jigs with a # 180 grub. Lost the first fish at the boat. We moved over to the dam and found other fisherman on our spot so we moved into the North Fork on rock points, missing fish all day. We riged up from worms to lizards, rip baits and spinners. The last cast gave us one keeper by 2:45. A few teams came in with limits and the winning weight was 12.45 lbs. Some big smallies and largemouths. Most of the bass for the other teams also came on brown/purple jigs. keep your lights on in this fog. The depth was from 10-25 ft. Some spots are moving upto feed on some of the new food coming down the bank. The water color is not bad.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: Shake the jigs and move slow and use a scent.

Friday, January 14th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 50 ish

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started out along with won bass tourn. I went leftt almost everyone went right.Later I went up river also. First spot got 13lbs and went to nowind area to eat and relax. Talked to a few tourn. fishermen and one said he had 12 lbs another three keepers another four keepers. I think old Mike Tuck socked it to them with around 17 lbs, not sure, just grapevine news. Shallow bite was the name of the game as spinnerbaits prevailed. Awesome strikes. Wind was a factor however there were places not affected. Up river the warter temp was very low and some current was noticed.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Toss chartreus up on bank and bring into water as not to scare your prey, if they are thwere your chances may be improved. Good fisin jim