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Thursday, March 20th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Played "sick" rom work amd ished the south ork with plastics and caught 5 ish to 3 lbs. Fish were in 8-10 eet o water it was a great day on the lake. Thanks to Bass Tracker or the Excellent report! BILL DANCE would be proud o you!! :)
    City: Placerville

    Tips: Fish the Bill Dance grub!!

Thursday, March 13th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 52.5-54.0

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Thursday aternoon at the beginning o and during the storm. We started out shallow and went shallower looking or a reaction bite using Staysbe 90sp, pointer100 and CB 200 in Ghost and Tenn. shad. Nothing wanted to play so since the ish obviously did not go that way we went to the o shore humps and rock piles in 15-20 oot o water.BINGO. Beore the ront the ish were scattered about on the lats in 11-8t and shallower. We thought the storm and alling pressure would push them up, but no they pulled back and held on the humps and piles near deep water. Only ished or 4 hours or 10 or so ish the largest a 4.6 lb largemouth my buddy picked up draging a yum tube. I caught everything on a carolina rigged 9S Senko in #301 color. The bites were very suttle, more pressure than anything. The spots and smallies are about to pop.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: I was lazy on the Carolina rig and used a rubber peg to ix a 3/8th oz tungston weight about 18 inches above my hook. This cost me 3 good ish at the boat as the weight acted like a pendulum pulling the hook out as I played with the ish. Obviously in a tourniment I would not be playing with the ish and this may not have mattered; however, i the least bit o slack occured in that 18 inches more than not the hook dislodged. Now my Papi taught me to use a carolina rig on Santee Cooper when I was a child and he would not have been proud at my improvision, lesson learned. At least it was not in a tourn.

Saturday, March 8th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished today till 12:30 p.m. I have not ished morning or some time.I didnt get into any rip ish everyone is talkin about, so I threw jigs.Caught a total o seven that was 17 lbs combined weight.Fish are moving in, but not exactly red hot yet.Best ish was just under our pounds,the rest o them were between two and three.Very decent day or size. Also watched the weigh in or Newbass Folsom teams.Winning weight was just over twenty lbs.Almost everyone had limits, large ish was ive lbs ew oz.
    City: Granite Bay

Saturday, February 22nd, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The Fairield Suisun Bass Reapers are holding their 22nd annual open bass ishing tournament on April 12, 2003, At Spanish Flat Resort and Marina on Lake Berryessa. We invite all interested teams (two people) to join us. The entry ee is $100 per team and includes launch at Spanish Flat the day o the tournament. As always, the tournament proceeds will be used to complete projects such as placing structure like x-mas trees in Lake Berryessa or stocking Florida strain bass. Over the past 10 years we have purchased and planted over 20,000 o these ish. For urther details and an entry orm on the web, Go to www.geocities.com/bassreapers/open2003.htm. go to "clubs" on this site and ind the Fairield Suisun Bass Reapers, get an entry orm at Longs in Fairield, or call Curtis Beckwith (707) 448-9113 or Dean Meyers (510) 724-3660, (between 6:00 and 9:00 p.m. only please).
    City: Fairield

    Tips: Please promote your business and assist our und-raising eort by donating to the tournament rale. The majority o the unds raised or our structure and ish plants are raised through the rale. (Most o the entry ees are paid out to the ield) As each item is raled, the donor is announced. A list o rale donors is distributed to all participants. Last year we raeled o about 15 quality rods including 2 custom rod's built by Todd (o Angler'd World; thanks Todd). Participants really pay attention when a rod is being raled and we'd like more this year. I you have questions about or can assist with the rale, please call:Irving Shirley, President(707) 429-3239;

Sunday, February 9th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Stick a ork in me, I'm done. Done ishing out o suitcase. Caught another light down rom the northwest this time to pick up my last load and ish a Folsom Bass Team tournament while in the hood. 2 keepers on the main lake dragging o-shore in about 20 t. Blanked on my numbers locations up north. Last Zip Decker report (i your'e lucky) and I'm sticking to the ormat I promised web-master Tony. Fishing irst, useless diatribe second. Considering how little there is to talk about in the ormer, let's move to the latter.Zip Decker's last post. It's like the last episode o MASH. I'll start by coming out o closet and revealing I've been a Folsom Bass Team club member all along. During the time I did these wacko posts I didn't want to go there and give the club a bad name. But I'm out o here now, so strap it on, and let's rock. The ish inally got a break. Skip Nelson, FBT club president until 2003, is recovering successully rom 5 way bypass surgery. Give it up or Skip ya'll! Warning to bass: he'll be back. Charlie Bruton won Sunday's tournament with 13.5. Charlie was me and my buddy Dylan's boss at a warehouse job way back in the day. We were still minors and one wonders how much he contributed to the delinquency.... Ater 20+ years it was great to hang with you again! Another buddy stood up his partner Sunday. I'm sure it was a mistake. It happened to Don Stanley. Don's so cool, he towed his camper to our Delta TOC last September and we all behaved like the trailer trash we really are. Tanya Harding would have been discusted. Thanks Don, that was a good time. Newcomer Chris Hughes just turned 16 and took third out o the back o Brian Watkinson's Triton the day ater he took 5th in one o Newby's Semi Pro's. I'll say I was there in the beginning. Good job Chris, just keep it real dude! Justin Nelson stopped e-mailing me or advice and low, he takes second place with Russ, "Sandbagger" Graves. They had 13 something, and damb near won it. My Newbass Partner rom 2001 terry Arnold drew my ABA partner rom 2002 Steve Eason, and my ears are burning! I'm here to tell you. It's not rom driving that Isuzu diesel 11 hours back to Portland. Here's to you guys! As teamates we might have been one ish short o a limit, but ya gotta admit, it was a hoot. Check the livewell! Too bad my buddy Blademan's Mercury went down. It was nice getting on the water without that I'm going to get spanked by Blademan again eeling however. We're roomates at Shasta in June and he better not sti me. Getting married is no excuse! Fix that motor Blademan, or ly to Portland and go tubing in my pond. Should have quit right then when I won at Berryessa in December. I'm all: errr, I could ly down and hang on to my early points lead or the year? Not! My new crib here in the northwest's got a 4 acre pond on the property. Great place or my boy. Anytime he can cut school walk out back and put a bend that Sponge Bob signature series casting stick I got him last Christmas. I might check in with ya'll with a report rom the Columbia, and I'll be at Shasta with the FBT in June. Oregon's got a page like this. I ound it- sucks or them. It's been great. Hope to see ya'll someday at Lake Catchabiggin. Drop me an e-mail at zipdecker@aol.com. Out.
    City: Portland

    Tips: Febuary 9th. Except or at stomachs, not even a hint o early pre-spawn.

Saturday, February 1st, 2003

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Jigs did not work this day, ound all our ish with 4.5'' worms on darter heads. I tried shakin them with no success.They seem to want it just laying there. Caught eleven spots 1.5 to 3 lbs being the largest. Spent ive hours on the water.
    City: Granite Bay

    Tips: Fish slow and be patient,5 to 10 eet

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Made it out about 100 yards o the launch ramp at Granite beore the motor died. Decided to use trolling motor and putted around the marina or about 30 minutes. Caught a 3 pound smallie on an smoky blue with red lake AFARR jig in 28 eet o water. Just got home and the hot coee and bacon are almost ready.
    City: Davis

    Tips: 3/8 oz AFARR jigs.

Thursday, January 30th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The day started out oggy, but I nailed limits o bass beore noon again using 3/8 oz AFARR jigs. Biggest ish was a 4 pound spotted,caught in 20 oot o water. I also landed a 3 pound wrinkle-necked brown trout. I've seen them in New Zealand, but never caught one until today.
    City: Davis

    Tips: AFARR jigs, 3/8 oz, pink and purple

Tuesday, January 28th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught a 7 pound 4 ounce spotted bass near Salmon Falls Bridge today in 20 eet o water, using an AFARR jig.
    City: Davis

    Tips: Purple and pink 3/8 oz AFARR jigs, jigging right o the bottom

Sunday, January 26th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 47-48

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Pretty tough bite, but got signiicantly better as the day wore on. Started bright and early at 7:00 AM. Pulled up to my irst spot in the South Fork to ind a large school o bait hanging o a break line in 45'. Sweet! Got bit on my irst drop and missed the sucker, but landed a chunky 3+ spot rom 50' a ew minutes later. Had one more bite that pulled the worm down the hook shank, and that was it rom that school. Fished several other areas in the South and came up empty. Found several bait balls suspended over structure, but not relating to anything in particular. At about 1:00 PM with only one ish in the boat, we decided to try one last area - good decision! The ish really began moving up late on sloping, shale/granite rock points. The next ish, a at 2+ spot, came rom about 30' right o the tip o a point. The next two ish, a double with my Dad, both came rom 20' and went about 1.5 lbs. apiece. The next our ish, including another obese spot pushing 3 lbs. all came rom the same type points, and anywhere rom 2-5' o water. The shallow movement late was sudden and very apparent, as we began to see big clouds o bait sitting in the 5-10' range as well. Finished with 8 ish total, the best 5 going 10+ lbs. easily. Not a bad day or mid-winter, but especially un in the last 3 hours.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: Dropshot the irst ish in 50' on a 4.5" Roboworm Hologram Shad pattern worm. Everything else came dartheading a 4.5" Kalin's Handpoured Morning Dawn worm. Really should have broke out the ripbaits and blades with the shallow move we saw late, but just got too damn comortable with the worm. My bad!

Saturday, January 25th, 2003

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Folsom on Saturday. On the water at about 7 and drop shotted or about the irst hour or so. Having nothing remotely promising near my line, I switched to a jointed Rebel craw and caught a small spot in water that was about 15-20'. Caught another small one later on a Rebel shad rap in about the same depth. We marked ALOT o ish very deep (80-100' according to the inder) and were unable to get them to hit anything. My bro had a strike on a jig with a Hula grub.
    City: Petaluma

Thursday, January 23rd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hadn't been on the lake in almost a year, so I wasn't certain what to expect. Launched out o Brown's on what started as a very pleasant day. Decided to stay in the south ork and just work all my normal stu - primarily points and channel bends adjacent to spawning areas - and it ended up paying o pretty well. The numbers were not great - only 7 bites total in the boat with 4 landed - but the quality was excellent. Finished with a 3.5 lb. smallie (what a pleasant surprise!), two spots in the 3 lb. class and another spot that went 5+ easily. And would you believe we couldn't buy a bite on the jig? All ish were caught shaking 4"-6" worms on 1/8 oz. dart heads, and rom 12'-25' deep. Fish came to the boat spitting up pond smelt, but I had a heckuva time locating the schools o baitish. Noticed a TON o grebes working bait over 100+ t. o water, but ound very little bait adjacent to structure. Interesting. All bites came on points or channel banks immediately outside major creeks, and all but 2 were the classic winter mush bites.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: Fish slowly and be patient. Stick with shad colors and make sure you maintain bottom contact at all times.

Monday, January 20th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished on sunday or about three hours and caught around 12 spots to 2.5lbs. The bite was ast and urious and then completly shut o. Fish were in 15-25 t.and I caught them dragging a carolina rig
    City: Sacramento

Sunday, January 19th, 2003

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    Water Temp: high 40s

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Dropped in on a light rom Portland and ished a club tournament. The slogan says you are ree to move about the country. It does not say you are ree to move about the country and get spanked in a tournament. It doesn't say that, but that's what happened. We still caught ish, but we caught numbers instead o quality. My buddy Phil describes the conditions below on his post. Calling the tournament launch a blast-o would be a stretch. The morning run er, crawl got us accross rom rom Brown's to the main peninsula and I got two strikes at 20 t shaking a darterhead. Landed one 2.2lb spot- the biggest ish o our day. We started by working reaction around a rock pile with about 12 t o water at it's base. I did get a blade ish on a similar spot later in the aternoon up north. My partner and I agreed to go to the north to get the limit and go rom there. That was our problem- we didn't go rom there. We caught a double limit worming, but locations that have produced quality ish or us recently didn't deliver on this day and we inished with a bag that weighed less than 8lbs. My buddy Lee has been all over this lake lately, and he located bigger ish and took the win with 12.63. There were 17 limits weighed in out o 24 teams, and the best bags were taken by anglers watching thier electronics or concentrations o ish hugging the bottom around 30 eet. Less than 8lbs. I I can't do better than that, I'll stay o the airlines and stat ishing the Columbia.
    City: Vancouver

    Tips: Keeper size spots are active shallow. Bigger ish are located deeper in thier winter basins. Electronics baby.

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Our club tourney at Folsom today ended with a ew happy people happy and a lot o people conused. According to my sources the ish were caught rom 10 to 80 eet. Eighty eet??? Ok, here's my report. We caught ish rom 25 to 40 eet. We were ishing jigs and plastics. The bite was mushy. For the morning bite, my best bait was the net. My partner, Terry, couldn't stop getting bit. Me, I couldn't start. We had a limit by 10:00, and one o them was mine. Feeling conident with a limit, we agreed to swing or the ence and switch to "big ish" baits. I'm a chicken, and when my partner wasn't looking, I put on a 3.5" split-shot leach. I had to set the net down, because my bite picked up with the leach. Unortunately, most o my ish didn't help. We ended up culling everything under 1.8, and had a couple o ish over 2. That wasn't good enough or a check on this day. 12 and some change won it. We had 10 and change. At least the wind laid down today.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: The blast-o looked like a rog race. Bring a GPS or go slow; you'll end up going in circles. I can only give tips that are good or 10 pounds. Fish slow... The strike zone is tiny. Good luck.

Friday, January 17th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: On the water this morning at 7:00 A.M. Lots o og so we took our time and ollowed the north shore up into the north ork. Marked good numbers o ish setting in 15' to 25' next to deep drop os. We anchored up and worked these areas with 2.5" minnows both under slip bobbers and o the bottom. We had steady action and ended up with six bass included a beautiul 4lb plus spot! In addition we caught six nice rainbows, a mix o planters and holdovers. We kept the planters and illeted a couple bass. Looking orward to some ine eating. What a great winter day o ishing! By the way can anyone give me some inormation about the catishing at Folsom. I'd like to compare notes.
    City: Ophir

    Tips: For trout use smaller minnows 9' below a slip bobber. For bass use a larger minnow with one split shot. Fish on the bottom in about 20' o water o the red clay banks. Rig your minnows on small circle hooks so you can release the ish you don't eat and remember not to be a ish hog.

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: On the water this morning at 7:00 A.M. Lots o og so we took our time and ollowed the north shore up into the north ork. Marked good numbers o ish setting in 15' to 25' next to deep drop os. We anchored up and worked these areas with 2.5" minnows both under slip bobbers and o the bottom. We had steady action and ended up with six bass included a beautiul 4lb plus spot! In addition we caught six nice rainbows, a mix o planters and holdovers. We kept the planters and illeted a couple bass. Looking orward to some ine eating. What a great winter day o ishing! By the way can anyone give me some inormation about the catishing at Folsom. I'd like to compare notes.
    City: Ophir

    Tips: For trout use smaller minnows 9' below a slip bobber. For bass use a larger minnow with one split shot. Fish on the bottom in about 20' o water o the red clay banks. Rig your minnows on small circle hooks so you can release the ish you don't eat and remember not to be a ish hog.

Thursday, January 16th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished blades, jigs and plastic with no bites or 2 hours today. Couple other boats around me ishing steep clis and trees also with no luck either.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: It is just a matter o days beore it is wide open or the big mamas.

Tuesday, January 7th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 47

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out early and tried up north, we tried plastice and cranks, no luck.moved around alot and had no luck to speak o all day. Caught one trout on a renzy crank.All in all could not igure the pattern. Tried using sonar and spooning to no avail.Were later told try Jigs o the points (use the hazard bouys) i it is reliable we cannot tell but may help.Better luck nest time I guess.
    City: Paciica

    Tips: Tips - Don't do what we did!

Sunday, January 5th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: My riend Mario took me out or the day in his new G3. Something about my buddies with new alloy deep vees and 4 strokes. I asked Mario i he decided to quickly become a boater again ater helping me douse the ire I had in the back o mine last year. I guess the knickname 'Ol Hotoot didn't sit well with him. I think we caught 8 ish to 2.5lbs and a couple bonus rainbows. Mario ripped the irst one out on the main lake, and then we wormed in the north. Found another buddy Lee sitting on the same rock he's always parked on. We started talking and soon he was giving us the specs on this year's new electronics model by model. I'm all: errr, how deep's the water dude? Lee's got too much time on his hands. He's all "hey Zip, you hit that sweet piece o structure yet?" I said no, that one gets pounded. He rolls up and gets 3. Highlight o my day was nailing a blade ish while a boat load o partying 40 sometings passed real close. They were trolling and could give a rat- they were dragging a stringer with couple big bass along with their trout. The humanity. Got home in time to watch the Giants come rom ahead to choke against the Niners.
    City: El Dorado Hills

    Tips: The lake is up 15t since the December storms. Wish I had plotted the coordinates o some o the prime rock piles. With electronics only it's time consuming to locate them submerged in murky water.