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Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: on the water around 5pm, fished same methods as my previous post, no takers. finally after a couple hours i got one little rat up by salmon falls bridge on a crank bait. fished main body trees with no luck till dusk. pulled up to the boat dock (@ rattlesnake) and ended up catching 3 in a row running the crank bait right next to the dock. quite a bit of boat traffic for a weeknight
    City: cool ca

    Tips: bring patience...

Monday, June 13th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 87

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Late report-sorry. Fished monday for about three hours in the early evening around dottons point with the wife in our kayaks. We caught a handful of fish using carolina rigged watermelon worms.
    City: ROSEVILLE

    Tips: Have fun and watch out for jet skiers!!

Saturday, June 11th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Threw everything, only thing that worked were small plastics worked very slow.. Every bite was caught on the bottom dragging or deadsticking the baits.. Ended up boating 4 in 3hrs, 1 rat and the other 3 ranging from 2-4lbs
    City: cool

    Tips: Work it slow. Just let it sit!!
    My first bite came off a tube that I cast out then set my rod down to get a drink, when I picked it up to give a twitch i had one!

Friday, May 20th, 2011

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    Water Temp: around 60?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: fished from rattle snake, my special cove about 2.5 miles left of 5% launch, out to grantite point and along the dam with no luck, then went trolling along the dock and caught 2 12-14 inch trout about 70 feet down. not much bass activity, everything thats been caught has been one senkos or dive/crank bait and drop shot/carolina riggin off points,coves, and open windy/choppy areas. bass are suspended while spawning the only way to hoax a strike is to hit em in the face with it or piss em off by draggin past thier nest. should be good fiching here in a week or so
    City: roseville

    Tips: alot of people have had good results with very small top water and shallow diving swimmers retrieving very very slow in open water. takes for ever and doesnt always get results but when it does, oh boy. especially towards the evening when light starts to fade off the bass see something floating across the top and its dinner time. take care not to use something big enough to cast a sillohuette that will spook any hungry bass, insect replicas and small shad/millow topwater/divers are what was workin divin anywhere from 2-6 feet on a slow retrieve

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 62-64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of GB with 2 friends at 5:30pm to 8:00 pm, windy with some white caps. Fished North fork coves. The cove next to Rattle snake looked good. Lots of fish jumping, but no takers. Tryed poppers and worm, did not bite, just nibbles.
    City: Granite Bay

    Tips: stay out of the wind.

Saturday, May 7th, 2011

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished with my partner Steve Started up north bad wind we went to the south fork still windy but Stevo started catching them. Steve had 1 over 5# 3around 4 and a couple of 3s thrown in We ended up with 14 or 15 fish all in the wind blown banks. Boy i showed Steve a thing or two about how to net em.
    City: cameron park

    Tips: We fish the wind blown banks with a carolina rig couldn't catch them on protected banks.

Sunday, May 1st, 2011

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Nice day on the water. I pulled into one of my favorate fishing spots and I could see several large bass. I tried sevaral differant plastics, but they were just not going for it. They must be spawning. Better luch next time.
    City: Granite Bay

    Tips: Don't have any, do you have any for me?

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

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    Water Temp: 58-62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of G-Bay windy and white caps. Fished coves and flats for four hours pulled in 2, 2.5- 3 pounders.Lots of play just couldnt get anymore fish to commit for a little fun. All fish came on spinnerbaits.
    City: ROSEVILLE

Friday, April 15th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 53-57

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Must be a toournament this weekend, bass boats everywhere. Fish seem to be on beds and the tourney guys will pull them off and take 'em away. Not good for our lake. Afternoon bite was good but everywhere you went there were 4 boats in the spot. Thought Friday would be a quiet day but not so.
    City: Rancho

Monday, April 4th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 55 to 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Lots of fun catching 2 to 4lb. spots and smallmouth on main body flat points in 3 to 15ft. useing blades, cranks, shaky worms and split shot.
    City: Sacramento

Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

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    Water Temp: 52-55.6

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Folsom for the first time this year and had a decent day. All fish came on blades from 5 to 10 feet of water. All fish came off a 1/2 ounch Persuader Chart/White spinnerbait with gold Colorado blades. Caught spotties in the 2's, a 3.6 and a 4.5 all on same bait.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Fished shallow coves/flats, cast up to the bank and slow roll back. Changing reel speed or a stop and go created more bites. Good Luck ~

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    Water Temp: 52-55.6

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Folsom for the first time this year and had a decent day. All fish came on blades from 5 to 10 feet of water. All fish came off a 1/2 ounch Persuader Chart/White spinnerbait with gold Colorado blades. Caught spotties in the 2's, a 3.6 and a 4.5 all on same bait.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Fish the flats, cast up to the bank and slow roll back. Changing reel speed or a stop and go created more bites. Good Luck ~

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out from 4 to 6:30 and the fish won . I was expecting good things from the water temp , 56 deg. Tried chatter bait, jigs, brass and glass , and a fluke with no success . I did see lots of fish on the meter in 80 feet of water .I'm to embarrassed to use my real name.
    City: Granite Bay

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

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    Water Temp: 50.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: awesome day yesterday. fished for three windy hours with 7 fish coming in a 45 min period which included a 3.1 and a 3.9. all fish caught on reaction in 3-7ft water, working fast through the rocks. love days when you can fish like that! 6 of 7 were spotted... all fat and white as wool.

    Tips: don't give up too quickly on a pattern you know should be working.

Sunday, March 20th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 48 degress

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I started on north about 6:30am and fished points and rock piles. I fished about 22-35 ft deep of water. I showed all sorts of presentations and got no hits. For the second week in a row I got skunked. Water was really murky and windy
    City: Sacramento

Friday, March 11th, 2011

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: HAD A FUN DAY YESTERDAY FUN FISHING AGAIN WITH MY TEAN PARTNER STEVE ADAMS, WE DIDNT CATCH THE NUMBERS OR WEIGHT WE DID WED., BUT STILL ENDED UP WITH FIVE BITES, FIVE FISH IN THE BOAT FOR 16#S ANCHORED BY A 4# SPOT AND A 5 1/2 # BLACK, WE WISH WE COULD HAVE FISHED OUR HONEY HOLE BUT SOMEONE WS ON IT.

    Tips: same baits except the big spot came on a swim bait. same presentation....water level is climbing fast.............

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

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    Water Temp: not sure but co

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Dike8 cove shoreline while I let my dog exercise; got 1 hit but came off on the way in. Was using a brown/orange jig w/Yamamoto #180 single-tail grub for a trailer.
    JimEaton, thanx huge for the insights on your techniques...makes alot of sense and we'll be trying it next time out on the boat. Really appreciate you taking time to explain. My brother and I are on a Tracker 185WT deepv and my yellow lab is always with us. Thanx again!
    City: Sac

    Tips: None to offer other than seems like plastics are the offering right now and I'm gonna try what I've just learned from Jim. If/when I have something that works, I'll offer it up here.

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    Water Temp: ///????

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Im not sure that the bait needs to "sit" there at all, if anything, maybe 30 second pauses. but when I do decide to move the bait (in this instanve a tube) I move it extremely slow, making it pause when I hit a rock or a stump. I dont feel a spinner should sit at all, if you can maintain contact with the botton ( bumping rocks, dragging dirt) that should be plenty slow. I personaly do my best in the early spring here using white everything, tubes, senkos, beavers, blades, cranks etc.......I hope this helps you guys go out there and catch some toads.

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

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    Water Temp: na

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Correction: It was Russ *Meyer*, not (Rus Snyders) showing winter bass techniques at Shasta; he was slow-rolling a spinnerbait in coves with feeder creeks. We were trying that at Folsom. Jim E's post proves it works at Folsom too! Just gotta keep trying and working at it. Thanks again, Jim!
    City: Sac

    Tips: Keep trying!

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    Water Temp: na

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Jim, thank you for that...yes, real meaningful. We targeted feeder stream coves and I tried the spinner bait (watched Rus Snyders doing that at Shasta)... but I guess the most meaningful part is your direction to fish S-L-O-W. We thought we were fishing slow but obviously our slow is still too fast. How long does a bait sit to be considered slow? 2mins? 5mins? 10mins? and how slow is slow when working a spinnerbait? do you let it sit still on the bottom as well? we're rookies and just want to learn. REALLY, THANK YOU for a real and meaningful report. btw- to everyone else..sorry to treat this report like a forum...had to thank Jim for his post.
    City: Sac

    Tips: Jim E.'s previous report is the tip.