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Thursday, July 6th, 2000

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Had an O.K. time out at Folsom. The bite seemed tough. There was a low pressure system moving through and gusty winds, which made it tough to control the boat. I caught three. One on peanut/butter and jelly colored plastic worm. One on a watermelon colored tube and one on a purple zipper worm.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: I have three suggestions, see above colors....

Tuesday, July 4th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 79

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: FISHED FROM FIRST LIGHT TO 11:30 AM 6 FISH FROM 12 INCHES TO15 INCHES IN LENGTH. CAUGHT ON BUZZ BAIT SPINNER BAIT, RATTLE TRAPS, WORMSGREAT DAY FISHING TOO MANY BOATS BY NOON.
    City: WEST SACRAMENTO

Monday, July 3rd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 77

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Headed or a morning trip to Granite Bay with my wie. All o my planning went right out the window with the wind. 10 mph winds, with gusts to 25, make or interesting boat control with an aluminum boat. Tried many things, but only recieved a ew short stikes on tubes.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: no ish, so no tips. Good Luck!

Wednesday, June 28th, 2000

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    Water Temp: mid 70's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 6-28 6:00-8:30pm, caught 3 keepers up to 2.5 lbs 20-22 eet around submerged bushes on 1/4oz brown rodstrainer jig/double green yamamoto grub trailer, drag that sucker slow, 2 nicer ish beore the sun went down on a buzzbait.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: Throw that buzzbait and have some un, around trees 5-15 eet. Yeehaw!

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    Water Temp: 72-76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Sunday, June 25th. Launched at irst light. Fished w/Steve rom Galaxy Marine in Auburn. Man, can that guy catch them. He's showing me how to use the GPS on my new Triton and landing ish at the same time. Lots o dinks and couple o good ones. Let the lake about 10:30 a.m. -- Not early enough to beat the skiers and jet skis. These people were mobbing the ramps to get in and we could hardly get the boat on the trailer. Had a great morning learned a lot romSteve. These Tritons are great boats!JR
    City: West Sacramento

    Tips: Finnesse - 4" worms - 6# line - light colors

Saturday, June 24th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 77 - 79

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished South Fork rom 5:45 - 9:00 am Saturday, threw a super spook, Salt & Pepper senko and a Fluke until my arms ell o, no takers, 7:30 picked up old reliable Dart Headwith a homemade Green Weenine 30 t. and wham our keepers and a shaker in an hour. Lots o Boat traic and it got ugly at the ramp early. See ya Mark
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: I should have adjusted sooner and got o the Grass and Weeds and threw the reaction baits on Rock and gravel, I know better. Lots o Bass in the Willows, will ollow yourbait but no takers.

Sunday, June 18th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished a very small team tournament today with my ather, a nice sentiment seeing as it was athers day. The tournament was put on by O'Shea productions and a good time was had by all. Thanks Shaun or putting on a good tourney! Me and dad were lucky enough to win this one,with a ive ish limit o 18.10 lbs.. This was the best stringer I've ever taken out o Folsom. We caught all o our ish in the North ork suspended in trees. We were shaking BLUTO worms in a all craw pattern,with most o the ish taking it on the sink,shaking the worm as it ell. Landed seven ish over 2 1/2 lbs. with the largest being 4.55 and the primary bite between 6:30 and 7:30 A.M. Hope this helps somebody!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: Try shaking worms slowly and thoroughly in the trees or the bigger ish. Most o the bites seem to be on the all rom 3t. to 8t. o water. Had no luck with topwater.

Friday, June 16th, 2000

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well ather and i went out o Granite Bay at 5:20 with no one in the parking lot. We went up the North Fork and into the irst big cove. First cast with a White/Black broken back Rapala cought a 2#'er. Nothing or 30 minutes untill we went urther into the Fork to an area with a point with an island next to it. We ished the point with pumpkin-seed/chartruse tail worm. Cought 5 nice keepers with the biggest going about 4#s. Moved to the point and cought a dink in the trees. Over all a good day on the lake. Out by 8:00.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Use the pumpkin-seed/chartruse worm SLOWLY. Fish just suck it up and all you ell is a tap and you see your line move to the side. Top-water would probably work beore sun comes out.

Sunday, June 11th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 68 - 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Rock Garden in the morning. 3 Spots and 1 Smallie in about 3 hours ishing. Missed another hal dozen. Bite was light, most ish on a 4" plastic. Each ish was on a dierent color, ranging rom salt & pepper, smoke and pumpkinseed.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Beore you leave a rock hump, give it a pass or two with a small rattle trap. You may pick up a bonus ish or two.

Thursday, June 8th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rom 7:00am till 1:00pm. Caught 4 spots, and 2 largemouth. We caught them caralina rigging, and rippin. We're preishin or a bass tourney June 18, out o Folsom Point. Weigh-in is at 12:00pm. For ino. call Shaun at (916)331-8174.
    City: Rancho Cordova

    Tips: Caralina rig or quantity.

Wednesday, June 7th, 2000

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished along dam in the early a.m. using Rapala poppers and #9 Firetiger. Caught a ew small ones early. Went up to granite bay caught a 3lb Large with plastic worm. I spotted a couple o rattlers suntanning near the water. Be careul.
    City: Sacramento

Monday, June 5th, 2000

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished near salmon alls,several largemouth on a 3in grub, biggest about 3lbs. Caught a couple smallies on a baby brush hog (watermelon colored). Fished near trees submerged in the water and ound drop os about 15 eet deep.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Find the structure ind the ish.

Saturday, June 3rd, 2000

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fish the banks at doltins point around 6 am saw ish jump so i grabbed my junior zara spook and casted it right where i saw the ish jump. The ish jumped out o the water with my lure in his mouth thats when my dragg started signing. It wasnt the bigesst ish (3lbs) but the large mouth woudn't stop. I inally brang it in. The rest o the day was slow couple small ones on lukes.P.S I your on the banks watch out or rattle snakes we saw 3.
    City: Roseville

Thursday, May 25th, 2000

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My buddy and I started ishing the Willows just outside o dyke 8. He was throwing a white spinner bait and I was lippingplastics. He caught a two pound largie and a ew short ish,and I caught a 5.71 pound large mouth in the irst 10 minuteso the tourney. As soon as the sun hit the water, the spinner bait bite shut o or us. We ended up ishing someisolated willow paches in the Granite bay area the rest o thetourney, and caught ish all day long. Started culling isharound 9 am. Ended up with 15 pounds, and ourth place, very goodday or us and our little aluminum boat.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: We caught most o our good ish and the most dead looking willows, that were in aout 15-20 eet o water. Single willoswere holding more ish than the big clumps o willows.

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 77

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went with the Cajun and took the "Other Woman" out or a run around the lake. South Fork, tons o ry, you could see bass running in 4 to 5 eet o water. Plastics didn't work, period. Through a buzzbait or un, BAM! The Cajun was on ire with Hula Popper! Topwater was the action or the evening. Caught about 10 ish. Last two in the evening on the way out was a 3.5 then a 4.5 on black buzzbaits! Pretty good Day
    City: Citrus Heights

    Tips: Don't be araid to try something dierent! You never know what might work!

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: This message is or Shaun Laytem. I just wanted to congrat you on your 4th place inish at Folsom. I was in that tournament,irst or me and my partner. I just thought it was pretty cool to see you place ahead o all those "bass" boats with your little "aluminum" boat. It just shows that you don't need a $20,000 boat to catch ish. Don't get me wrong, I think bass boats are great. You impressed me and my parner with your limit. It was a pretty tough day or us. I think we jumped around too much. Anyways, congrats.PS.. Where did you buy your 15 horse motor and how much was it?Splunkah Man
    City: Rancho Cordova

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    Water Temp: i dunno

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went out in the loat tube . was in granite bay with all the water lice and boats.used crankbaits , sluggo's and in-s-ish to catch 21 bass and lose 3 others between 4:30pm and dark.5 or 6 were dinks , the rest were spots and smallies rom 1 to 3 lbs, except or one largemouth in the bunch.pretty much my best day in a while.....
    City: horth highlands

    Tips: seems like any thing shadlike was working.or the guy who was complaining about swimmers and jetskis,just watch they don't hit you,cause they didn't seem to hurt the ishing.a one ounce weight on your hook will get their attention i they don't see you ....or respect you....

Monday, May 8th, 2000

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Three o us ished the Rattlesnake bar arm driting minnows over rock points in 10"-20" o water. We ished or 2 hours and ended up with 3 spots and one smallmouth. We saw lots o trout breaking the surace and even saw a ew caught.
    City: Auburn

    Tips: I think the ishing is slowing a little. I had some 20 ish days a ew weeks ago but know the bite seems to have dispursed.

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    Water Temp: 65.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished a Club tournament on 4/7/00, Rainy and windy in the morning started out on doltons point. Second cast caught a nice smallmouth continued to catch ish or the next hour on a rip bait. Had my limit and was cullin by 6:50. No real size to it though. Made some moves during the day and was able to cul to just over 9 1/2 pounds or 5. The ishing was real easy they will eat any color plastic and will eat reaction baits. I lost 2 bigger ish on spooks in the morning. All o the others in my club reported catching lots o numbers o ish. Mostly in the 1 1/4 range..... Good Luck
    City: Citrus Heights

Sunday, May 7th, 2000

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    Water Temp: Mid-60's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Big bass on a rainy day!! Fishing with a Rebel deep wee-r (chrome-black), I caught 3 smallmouth, 1 spot, and 1 largemouth. The largemouth weighing 7 lbs. (22 inches). The ish came out o 4 to 9 eet o water while ishing lats adjacent to points in the south ork. While later ishing with a Carolina-rigged luke, I picked up 2 more smallmouth.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Anything resembling a shad seems to draw erocious strikes right now.