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Thursday, January 1st, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished out of Browns Ravine Saturday afternoon from about 1:00 till dark. Graphed an occassional fish in 35' but most of them seemed to be way down around 65'on ledges. Drop shotted, spooned, and jigged to no avail. Not even a bump.
    City: Sac

    Tips: Watch out for unmarked boulders and islands just below the surface. We almost did some serious damage to the boat in a couple of locations off the main penninsula.

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out New Years from 9:00 to 3:00 to very tough conditions.Windy and between fronts. Tried all the usual stuff dropshot,jigs,spoons with no bites at all.I went to a carolina rig with 4.5'' worms and ended up with two spots.
    We had five guys fishing in three boats and my two fish were the only ones caught.
    City: Granite Bay

    Tips: If your baits moving your going to fast.

Sunday, December 28th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 52-54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the inal FOLSOM BASS LEAGUE event and had a great day boating around 25-30 ish or the day. Most o those were darterheaded early in about 55 t and most o those were rats. Found a good darthead bite up North near Eddie Murphy as well as on jigs. Weighed in a limit or 12.35# which was good enough or a 1st place tie with Russ & Johnny.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Jigs up shallow or the rest o the winter or kickers, ind bait and darthead or dropshot or limit size ish.

Saturday, December 27th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rom noon til dark pulling a doger/crawler 100 "pulls" behind the boat, 25' down on the downrigger in the channels by the Dam. The irst ish was a 22" Salmon that came to 3.14 Lbs. The next was a 13" Spotted Bass! Two hours later, I decided to check the crawler and to my shagrins, I had been pulling a 10" Dink Trout around, that did not release the downrigger or who knows how long! Ended up with 4 Salmon, 1 Trout and that 1 Bass. It was a perect Day!
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: All Fish were caught between 25 and 35 eet deep.

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the lake when it was still dark. Found a huge school o bait on the graph at the irst point we were ishing. Got 2 (one about 3+) on a spinnerbait. Then went some submerged rockpiles and got 4 dropshotting/spooning. let at about 11 00 cus o trolling motor problems.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: Find the bait and stay w/them.

Sunday, December 21st, 2003

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    Water Temp: 54-55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took my partner or next weeks FOLSOM BASS LEAGUE event out to show him around a little and or the 2 hours we were out we stroked them on about every spot we stopped on. Dropshotted and darterheaded all o our ish in depths rom 25 - 60 t. All o the ish spit up smelt on the way up including one very grateul smelt that lopped out the ishes mouth on my deck and was thrown overbaord to swim or another day. O by 5 PM and home or dinner. Total 6 keepers with the best 5 or about 8 lbs.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Jigs and reaction up shallow or the early AM bite then back o to your avorite island top to dropshot & darterhead the rest.

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well, the darn home lake has been kicking my bootie since the turkey day week and today was no dierent. Two ish one, on a Dropshot and one on a darthead. I threw cranks and rips rom o"dark thirty until 9:00 am. with no takers covering lots o water on the main body. I guess I have lost my touch! Went to the inesse to boost my ego beore leaving. Oh well two weeks o and plenty o time will be spent on the pond!!O the water at 11:30
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: None rom me

Sunday, December 7th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 53-55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished WON Folsom team event out o Granite Bay and ound once again the dreaded cold ront had moved in. Blasted o and headed up the N. Fork to do a little dropshottin', but saw a good point unoccupied so we started there throwing blades and rips. 65 minutes later a 2.89# came on board on a War Eagle blade and ater 30 minutes not another bite. Moved around or the next 4 hrs. with only one more keeper. Finally happened upon three identical rock points that kicked out a total o 5 keepers dropshottin' robo plastics. Tried jigs, more blades, darter as well as splitshotin' with no bites to show. Came in to weigh-in with 8.77# and took $140 or the "closest-to-three pounds-without-going-over" award or my 2.89 Spot.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Winter pattern is getting established and now that the lake has turned over, look or another migration o good ish to move up shallow or the winter. Dinks and small keepers out 25-50 t., but bigger ish will be on reaction and jig bite or the rest o the winter. BRING ON THE SWIMBAITS!!!!!!!

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    Water Temp: 54.4 to 56.2

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Folsom Bass tourny today. My partner and I were on a really good bite on Friday, however just like most tourny days, the weather changed during the day around 10am and the bite really turned o or us. Started out the morning blasting o at Browns and headed to the N.ork. Found the ish in 20'to 40' water on steep drop o (rock garden) We landed two keepers right o the bat, and had two more in the boat around 10am then the bite really changed. We caught them on 1/2oz ootball heads painted brown with a combo purple/green yamamoto hula grubs. took two colors and torn then to make the combo. Fishing them sooo slow that it was driving me nuts!! Did catch the biggest one o ours on a silver color 1/2oz ootball head with a yamamoto smoke/black lake. Hit it on the all. We then moved to drop shoting in 40'to 60' range. Caught alot o small/short ish but did not catch that 5th on that we needed. Headed back to the ramp with no conidence and took 2nd place. I think only 1oz ahead 3rd and less then 1lb rom 1st. Wow!! tu day or everyone.Had a great day on the water though.Thanks to my partner or the great day.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: NEVER GIVE UP!! NEVER STOP LEARNING!! AND ALWAYS FISH TO WIN!! and when all else ails ish slow this time o the year with patience. see above report or lure suggestions.

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    Water Temp: 54-55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Folsom Bass Team tourny today...my partner and I spent the irst couple hours with ripbaits, spinnerbaits and crankbaits looking or better ish shallow. No takers. Switched to dropshot on a main lake hump (50') or the irst small keeper. At 11:00, still only had one ish despite dropshotting many bait balls with active eeding ish showing on the graph...really don't know why those ish didn't go.Ran to the N ork at 10:00, caught two ish in the rock gardens, one dink on a darterhead and one keeper on a 1-ton. Went back to the main body at 11:00 to ish a high conidence cove or small keeper ish and we managed 4 quick keepers on darter heads and a mini C-rig. Spent the rest o the day pounding shallows in the south ork looking or a kicker ish which never materialized.We were pretty disappointed until we ound out we had the only limit out o 16 or 17 boats. It was small ish so it only got us 3rd...by less than an ounce and we missed winning by less than a pound. Sure woulda been nice to get that kicker!!!
    City: air oaks

    Tips: We ound most our ish to be in a mid winter type bite. Very slow presentation, with plastics on the bottom.

Monday, December 1st, 2003

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    Water Temp: 53-55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out or a ew hours beore having to pick the kids up rom school and had a great time. Wind was really blowing when I arrived so I decided to throw a Osprey swimbait on a long point up the north ork. 10 minutes wothout a bite or ollow, I then moved to another area and put a 2.5# smallie in the boat on a dropshot rom 46 eet on a ????Roboworm. Staying in the same area I moved around to ind bait and located a 29 oot hump surrounded by the 45 eet and put another solid ish in the boat. Moved over to Eddie Murphy to chuck the swimbait some more and ound the place to be loaded with bait. Dropshotted another solid keeper then it was time to go. Fish not quite in the winter pattern yet as the lake hasn't turned yet, but with the wind, rain and colder temps, they lake should turn soon.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Dropshot, dropshot, dropshot. There are probably some reaction ish irst thing with all o this cloud cover, but you can dropshot 20-30 ish a day i you're in the right area.

Sunday, November 23rd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Spent most o the day ishing shallow, thinking that ish might have inally moved up. No luck. Decided to back the boat up or the last ew hours and caught 3 keepers in the last hour. Caught them all in 30+ eet o water using a dropshot.
    City: Placerville

Sunday, October 26th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Elk Grove Bass held its October tournament on Folsom on the 18th. 10 boats attended with the winning weight at 9.87 lbs. with second at 9.78 lbs. All boats caught ish except one. Most ish came deep rom dropshots. Big ish was 3.52 lbs. Our next tournament is at Collins on the 15th o November, come join us, you do NOT need to be a member to join us. Check out our website at: members.aol.com/elkgrovebass or more inormation. Don't be a beater and ish the same old waters, join EGBass and ish a variety o water thru out the year....
    City: Carmichael

    Tips: Thanks to NCBF or their orum....

Friday, October 17th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ME AND MY TWO BUDDYS CAUGHT OVER 40 BASS AROUND 15 10 POUNDER THE REST WERE 2 TO 5LBS
    City: ELK GROVE

    Tips: NOW THAT THE WATER IS GETTING COOL USE SENKOS OR JIGS BUT WE MAINLY DROP SHOTED OR IN THE MORNING THROUGHT SPOOK POP OR PROPS

Monday, October 13th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We hit the lake at 6:00am and it was colder than a well diggers ankles! I decided it was time to start listening to Larry and go deep with a spoon. Watched the graph until we ound bait and they started hitting. I also had good luck with a 6" shad color Senko. We stayed out o the shallows and hit deeper water this trip and really got some nice ish........thanks Larry.
    City: South Lake Tahoe

Saturday, October 11th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Lauched out o Hobbie at 3:00 pm. Fished the Southork. Could not ind a pattern. Only caught two @ 1.5# each. One on top water, one on drop shot. Go igure.
    City: Folsom

Thursday, October 9th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went to Folsom with my best ishin' buddy Rick Tietz - the "spoonmeister"!! Anybody that can design his own line o spoons (Duh!) should be a pretty good spoon isherman and believe me - he is the best!!!! This time I actually kept up with him in numbers - almost!!! He got there at 10 am and I arrived at 11. I told him to ind them irst and he did - 4 at smallies and spots between 2 and 2 3/4 pounds. We ished together until around 6 pm and landed around 20 smallies and spots, and a 2 1/2 largemouth that I got on a Rodstrainer jig (rockpile)! The average size o the ish was amazing - spots up to three pounds and smallies up to 2 3/4. We only had 3 small ish. We ished only main body stucture - ollowing the bait. We spooned all o them except one or two on a dropshot. The spoons were ar more eective - we used morning dawn and shad colors with spoons up to 3 ounces. I can't imagine a more un aternoon o ishing!! And I got a DFG $10 tag on one o the ish to boot!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: This is the time o year that your meter is worth more than the weight o gold! I you understand structure and the movement o baitish, you can have some non-stop action in the all. In lakes with shad, the bass gorge themselves in the all - we had shad all over the boat as we landed each ish. You can be 20 or so eet away rom the bait balls and miss all the action. One thing about this kind o ishing - it is east or amine. Anglers will oten have great action during the day - in spurts! Sometimes you will run into a school o smaller bass eeding - just move around until you ind a school o larger bass. Believe me, Folsom is ull o them!!!

Monday, September 29th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the lake at 6:00am to ind ish tight to the trees in the South Arm towards the bridge. Fish hit on black and silver Pop-R's and white spinner baits. O the lake by 10:00am, too windy. Only had 3 in the boat.......better than work.
    City: South Lake Tahoe

Monday, September 22nd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got to the lake around 2:30 in an eort to take a check out o the boat ater some service and headed north into the 5 MPH zone and ound some submerged trees and brush and couldn't resist throwing a Senko ater my partner had already stuck a nice 3+ on a jig o a rocky point. They were hanging tight to the brush and managed 4 nice 2+ ish then saw them busting bait on the surace and couldn't get my topwater ast enough so lobbed the Senko, twitched it a ew times and had another 2+ with a big at belly. Boat and ish are all ine and got o the water around 6:30,
    City: Wheatland

    Tips: Steep rock walls with a brown/orange jig, Yamamoto #180 trailer. Senko was weighted with 1/16 bullet and used cinnamon/blue lake tight to brush.

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    Water Temp: 76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Didn't get there till about 11am and ound a ew small ish in 20t. so I went deeper and ound some huge schools o bass in creek channel at 35 - 40 t. and spooned one ater another. All 2 - 4 lb. bass, mostly spots. Went home at 2pm. too hot!
    City: Sacramento