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Monday, September 22nd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hit the lake at 5:30am, suprised that I was not the only one waiting at the gate. Started in the South Arm and ound ish in the trees hitting white spinner baits. Continued in the South Arm alternating with the spinner and a white crank bait. One other 2 1/2 punder on the crank bait beore heading to the North Arm to get one more with the spinner bait. Fish were in the trees in the morning but then I ound them o the rocky points in the shade later in the morning. O the lake by 11:30am with 3 in the boat, un day.
    City: South Lake Tahoe

Monday, September 15th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started at 4:30 p.m. around Anderson Island with white terminator spinnerbait however no hook-ups in 20 mins. Moved out to point and graphed bait and ish in 25-30 t. Fish associated with bait readily bit dropshot 4 in. Roboworm sculpin (Aaron's Magic)on 4 lb. P-Line CXX. The ish were smaller, mostly squeekers and rats, but the numbers were there and most importantly, they bit. Moved to islands west o loating outhouse in North Fork (Eddie Murphy's Cove?) and ound numerous ish, mostly the same grade as above. The ish were outside the hazard buoys in 20-25 t. Again, they ate the dropshot sculpin. Tried ripping but no dice.
    City: C.H.

    Tips: Find the bait, ind the bait, ind the bait. Mostly inding active ish on points in 20-35 t. water. 24 in. between bait and weight.

Sunday, September 14th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started ishing a 6:00am in the North Fork with luck using shad spinner paits and shallow cranks. Continued up the North Fork ishing the trees with no luck. Ended the day with our in the boat.
    City: South Lake Tahoe

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started in the South Fork working steep bank with spook. Had two takes but no hook-up. Switched to dropshotting the same bank with 4 in. Roboworm sculpin (Aaron's Magic) on 4 lb. P-Line CXX in 25-40 t. and caught my largest smallmouth (3+)to date, a handsome 3+ spotted bass and two sqeekers. Graphed ish out to 50 t. and bait balls were all around. On occasion the surace would erupt with bass chasing bait but or the most part they looked like this year's class. O water at 9 a.m.
    City: C.H.

    Tips: I have good success with any style Roboworm in Aaron's Magic. The ish came rom an area where the steep bank trasitioned to a long point. Bottom was sticky suggesting a rocky bottom.

Monday, September 8th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 77

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: On the water at 5:15pm and tried drop shotting in 20-30 eet o water near Dike 8 with no action.Switched to working brush piles with Rapal Fire Tiger Broken Back around 6:30 and proceeded to boat 5 ish. Two dinks with the largest keeper going 2.5 lbs. Was casting past brush and working it back as close to brush pile as possible. Bites seemed to come ater lure hit brush, then a slight hesitation on the retreive, then slow retrieve and bite would come.Overall a good 2 1/2 hours on the water.
    City: El Dorado Hills

    Tips: Clouds started to roll in the ar west around 7:00 making or a beautiull sunset and quickly darkening sky. Full moon was rising as I was leaving. Another angler at the dock said he had an incredible bite up the North Fork on Rip Baits.

Sunday, September 7th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught a couple over humps in about 26 eet o water by beals point dragging spider grubs. ished up the north ork in 6-15 eet o water lippin' senkos and drop shottin morning dawn by trees and brush. caught about a dozen up to 2.5 pounds in the late aternoon.
    City: olsom

    Tips: senkos always produce at olsom- just match color to orage.

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: just got home rom the club tourny on olsom thought i would put in my report, no topwater bite or us this morning couldnt get any reaction going at all, dont know why but we couldnt some other teams did. we wormed all o our ish drop shotting aarons magic in 10-15t. we ended up with 9.29 not to bad or this time o year. could o done better lost about a 2lb irst thing this morning
    City: orangevale

    Tips: dropshot split shot 10-15taarons magic

Tuesday, August 26th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Picked up ish rom Anderson Isle up to North Fork spooning. Total o 8 ish, but decent quality rom 2-4 lbs. They were coughing up shad. All on deep points but structure didn't seem to matter. Just turn on the graph and trolling motor and chase balls o bait.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: Fish were any where rom 30-45 t deep. I was using a 3/8 oz. silver spoon with a custom #4 Gamakatsu treble hook/eather trailer on 4# Iron Silk. Hits were on the all mostly, so I was controlling the rate o sinking and not letting it lutter too much. Cover a lot o water ast.

Saturday, August 23rd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 71-74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well not a great report, ound ish and got three keepers. Albeit a post ront rom yesterday's wild storm, I did not expect much. I ound tons o stacked balls o bait and ish, many short strikes. The ish were there and they pulled the plug on the lake it is dropping ast, be launching at Hobie Cove in a week or so.The new GPS/Sonor is awesome, why I waited I will never know but what a improvement. I have not ever been much o a sonor reak or inding ish but this should make me better.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: The next ew weeks should see a great bite open up as the ish go on a migration to the arms or a while. The trick will be ollowing and patterning them.

Sunday, August 17th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: BENEFIT TOURNAMENT AT THE DELTA.. August 23rd....dawn to 1:00 PM or a member o our club who's house burned.....e-mail me or details...thanks NCBF or their orum....EGBassPres@aol.com
    City: Carmichael

Saturday, August 9th, 2003

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Beneit tournament or an Elk Grove Bass member who's house burned.....August 23rd...e-mail or ino....thanks to NCBF or their orum.........EGBassPres
    City: Carmichael

Wednesday, August 6th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Wind and cool weather created one o the best crankbait bites I have ever had. Fished rom 5pm to 8pm and caught around 20 ish up to 3 lbs. Most were spots but big ish was a largemouth.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: Fished wind blown shores "uphill" with Lucky Crat Moonsault CB 350 in Pearl Ayu color. Anywhere with trees, I would cast out past them and "kneel and reel." Otherwise, I would look or shallow banks with a drop o rom 7 eet down to 15+ eet. Most bites came rom suspended ish right ater the crankbait hit the ledge o the drop o. Key was ishing uphill with the petal to the metal on the trolling motor set on 3.

Saturday, August 2nd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 82

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished all day in the rain with only one dink in the boat on a shad crank in 6 to 10 eet o water near the trees.
    City: South Lake Tahoe

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Double WOW !!! Mark was right ! Bass were biting top notch this am during rain. Fished Dyke 8 with Roboworm green weenies and connected on 12 keepers between 1-3 lbs. Broke o biggest (5+) on shad colored 4" senko. Missed another dozen hits. Nothing on topwaters or blades, did best on carolina rigs.
    City: Rancho Cordova

Friday, August 1st, 2003

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    Water Temp: 79

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: WOW!!! Is all I can say, Folsom has not been this good since March and April or me.Cloud cover just about all morning slight breeze and biting bass. We caught 20 - 25 ish and iteen o them were 2+ or better. The best was a our and a hal lb spot, I got two smallies that went 3.9 on the Berkley scale. All ish were healthy and hungry. All ish came on the main body, I ran up South irst thing to ind no takers.All o the ish came rom 12 - 20 eet o water, Since this is me reporting you know how I caught them DUH!! Darthead and dropshot.Great Day on the water, I need to have more weekdays o or ishing
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: We were shaking the bait pretty good or a ew seconds then deadstick, then shake again the bites came just when you stopped shaking.

Sunday, July 27th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 81

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: On the lake at 5:00am with ish busting the surace all around us. We were not able to coax any ish into the boat with anything. We tried spooks, spinners, cranks and plastics, but nothing worked or us. We ended our day at 11:00am with only 4 dinks in the boat on spinners and cranks in 7 to 10 eet o water o the rocky shoreline in the shade. Better than the best day o work though!
    City: South Lake Tahoe

Thursday, July 24th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 80-83

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished mooney ridge or about 3hrs on thursday and caught 7 ish on worms to 3lbs. Fish were all in 15 t or less with a couple in about 6 t . All the ish were in the trees.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: One on a spinnerbait and the rest on morning dawn worms. All ish were spitting up shad .

Sunday, July 20th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started out at 6:00am throwing topwater with no luck. My 8 year old son Colin hooked the irst one on a shad crank. Ater that it was only senkos in the shade o trees on the bottom that produced or us. Tough day on the lake, lots o waterskiers and pleasure boaters with lack o common sense or people ishing.
    City: South Lake Tahoe

Friday, July 4th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Decided to try my luck at Folsom by getting out irst thing in the A.M. and throwing some topwater.I ound out that I have no luck , no bites at all. I threw spooks,buzzbait,jig,plastics to no avail. This has been the worst year I have ever encountered at Folsom. I caught ish this spring but not near the quality or numbers that the last ew years have produced.The spawn seemed to last a ew weeks as well. Probably the constant rise in lake level kept me o balance.
    City: Granite Bay Ca.

    Tips: Next year or this all

Sunday, June 15th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 72-75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Father's day moring with a buddy and started out with a topwater spot on the second cast. Continued to work the topwater and spinnerbaits or an hour with no success, so gave up or the plasitics. Proceeded to dropshot/splitshot or another seven ish, ive o which were dinks. Saw a ew ish cruising, but ish landed came out o about 15' o water. Fished north ork coves/points with rocks and wood, which is just about everywhere right now.
    City: Folsom