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Sunday, May 7th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: decided to brave the rain on sunday and run out to Folsom, good decision! although it rained all day we had a good day. picked up a ew small spots & one smallie dragging misc. plastic, then ound a great luke bite. we saw something chasing shad against the shore and decided to join in on the action. caught and released some really good spots up to 3.1 lbs on lukes. also boated a really nice 2.5 lb. salmon on the luke! turned out to be a great wet day. our best 7 would have gone approx. 13.5 lbs. (not counting the salmon) good luck, biGjOhn OWT!
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: look or ish keying on shad. the ish were gorged and throwing up 3" shad. use shad patterns!

Saturday, May 6th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 67'

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Stared o in the morning at brown's ravine looked good seemed like a pretty good ishing day until the big rain clouds came in. ME and my buddy ished the banks rom browns ravine to dyke 8, nice walk.We caught some small ish and they all were spotted bass we stayed until 5:00 p.m saw a boat catch some nice ish he was ishing in between 15'-'20 eet deep useing worms so i you got a boat take a stop at browns ravine and just drag those worms. Good Luck! Nick Charles P.S watch out or the lovebug!
    City: Roseville

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2000

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I went out to olsom lake on the banks on monday morning,roughly about 8 a.m.using a top water popper and hooked on to 2 smallmouths instantly..they were both 3 lbs.I hooked up to 3 more but nothing more than 10 inches.So I went to a nightcrawler and a bobber about noon and ended the day with a 2.5 lbs smallmouth.My riend hooked on to a silver salmon(15 inches),with worms and bobber also..
    City: sacramento

    Tips: Bill Dance Excaliber Top Water Popper.....GRUBS WILL ALWAYS BE PRODUCTIVE!!!!!!

Saturday, April 29th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 62-63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out o Granite Bay at 10:30 ater little league pictures. Headed up north ork to the spot. Boats in every cove west coast bass uture pro I think. Decided to try something dierent than shaking worms every cove being hammered that way. 5 minutes into ishing hook up with 2.5lb spot, 5 minutes later caught 1 ish ater another in cove. irst ive cast rom by son and daughter produced ish all in the 2.00 to the big one at 5.50 lbs (largemouth) the rest o the ish were spotted bass nice keeper ish kids had a blast other 2 boats nearby did not though. ater an hour had to go to little league game. total o 15 ish in 40 minutes all keepers.
    City: Rocklin

    Tips: Don't be araid to try something dierent. On this day it was the ticket. deep diving crankbaits that get below the smaller eeding ish will produce good ish. Berkely renzy, at ree shads, strike king series worked well. Chartruese, shad colors. even had a nice ish on megat bite rip baits.

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started out in the south ork and caught a 1.5 lb. spot with the third cast with a white and chartruese spinner bait. Nothing ater that so switched to a split shot ox blood leach and caught two more 13 inchers. All came out o a rocky cove on the north side o the south ork. Headed to the north ork and ished some willows on the north side hal way to Rattlesnake bar. Had several chasers on a top water but no hookups. Finally caught our dinks and one 13 incher split shotting a morning dawn our inch worm beore heading back to the South Fork. Caught several more dinks on 4" green weenies and then started ishing willows in a no wake cove on the south side o South Fork. Finally in 14' o water in the willows split shotting a green weenie with red and green lake I hooked and boated a 5.50 lb. largemouth. All the other ish I had caught were spots.
    City: Delhi

    Tips: Spinner bait, wht/chart., or split shot worms, ox blood/green weenies/or morning dawn.

Saturday, April 22nd, 2000

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ished 4/22 with a buddy on lake around 7:30 went north up ork buddy landed 2 smallies 1 large all had good size bite was slow started to rain thought about coming in inally I caught 2 large o o rocks nice size can be bigger looking orward to sunday 4/30 hope to do better
    City: lodi

    Tips: rip & more rip worked well also spinners godd ishing !!!!

Friday, April 21st, 2000

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out about 4:00 PM. Fished in New York Creek. Caught 1 ish, about 2lbs. Had one right next to the boat, about 4 pounds but came o hook. Caught 2 pounder on small spinnerbait other on berkley renzy.
    City: Fair Oaks

Wednesday, April 19th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished N.ork ollowing storm tuesday the bite was o, only a ew small mouth. Fished S.ork wednesday bite was starting to pick up again, mostly top water and just below the surace near submerged trees, mostly laremouth 12 - 14". Good Luck.
    City: Citrus Heights

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    Water Temp: 52-58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at 1:30 and ished the main lake willows. Ater getting blown out, moved to the south ork without any luck.As the sun started going down the jig bite started heating up. Caught ish up to 3 # on purple jig with grub trailer. Fish came o long points in 3-6 eet o water.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Dark colors

Tuesday, April 18th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 52-58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished reaction baits in the early morning with no success, went to shaking worms in the willows. Caught ish on dark color worms rom willows in 8-12 eet. Used 1/8 oz. dart head until wind came up then swiched to 1/4.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Dark colors seemed to work best. (Blue Ghost)

Sunday, April 16th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 60-62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out yesterday the 15th and had about 11 pounds or my best 5. Caught a our pounder on a bed. Lots o little ish. Good Luck! Jig Man

Friday, April 14th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 65-68F

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the South Fork in the AM with a buddy and we hooked-up a dozen bass. Most were spotted a ew small mouth. All were in the 12 to 15 inch range with the biggest at 18 inches and 3.5 pounds. The big one was caught on a Motor Oil with red lake Jig. All others were caught on 4 inch plastic worms. Almost any color seemed to work. I was ishing a slow drag and letting the ish hit the worm a couple o times and when I elt the big tug, set the hook!
    City: Folsom

    Tips: I always use a split shot rig with a 2/0 or 3/0 o shank hook. Fish 4 inch plastic worms (start with Oxblood)as slow as you can and let them bounce o the bottom. When you eel the tug stop and wait or the wait or the seccond tug, then set the hook! Good luck, have un and be sure to "Catch-and Release"!!!

Monday, April 10th, 2000

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My riend and I went out on our loat tubes again and we caught and landed 29. It seemed a little slower and a soter bite. 4 inch worms seemed to be the key. The biggest ish was 3 pounds 1 ounce spotted bass. Still waiting or the lunker. Going out again tomorrow and giving it a try.
    City: Roseville

Sunday, April 9th, 2000

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went to olsom and caught 40 bass o my loat tube. Most averaged in the 12 to 15 inch range with the biggest weighing in at 3 1/2 pounds. Fished 6 inch lizards and 4 inch worms. Both o rockpiles and tree structures. Good Luck to all.........
    City: Roseville

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    Water Temp: 60-65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished thurs. evening and riday morning until 1:00 pm. Thursday evening two o us caught 42 ish largestgoing 4.5 lbs. Most ish were 13'' to 16''. Friday morningtook my Dad out and we caught 30 ish largest going about3.5 lbs.Larger ish are coming out o the trees.ishing Folsom right now is as good as it gets.I'll be out thereMon. evening, i you see my white Champion w/ green stripesay hi.
    City: GRANITE BAY

    Tips: Grubs on 1/8 darter heads or numbers, let it all andpick-up slowly, ish will be there when you pick-up. Big ish -----gotta go, see you out there.

Saturday, April 8th, 2000

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rom 7:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. along the south shoreline. Only caught one ish. It was about 12-14 inches. Caught him o a spinner around some underwater rocks. I saw a large ish missed my lure about ive eet o the shore. Rocky areas seem to be the key. Doesn't look like the ish are on their nests.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: Fish around underwater rock gardens.

Friday, April 7th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 60-63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I started ishing at 3:30 and ended at 7:30. I ended up catching 38 bass. Used sot plastics in 6-10 oot o water. Most ish 12-14 inches but caught 7 in the three to our pound range. Overall a good day o ishing.
    City: Roseville

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    Water Temp: 60-63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I started ishing at 3:30 and ended at 7:30. I ended up catching 38 bass. Used sot plastics in 6-10 oot o water. Most ish 12-14 inches but caught 7 in the three to our pound range. Overall a good day o ishing.
    City: Roseville

Thursday, March 30th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 54-59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Ah, yes, springtime! Took a un trip with my dad, and we had a ball! Started at about 6:30am and ished until 1:30pm. Landed 20+ ish which ranged in size rom 1 lb. to a beauty o a 6+ lb. kicker largemouth. Had two other 3+ lb. spots, and a smallie checking in at 2.5 lb. Stayed in the South Fork all day and threw blades and Zoom Flukes. Better quality came on blades (including Dad's 6+), but probably had twice as many bites on the Fluke. Think transition zones, NOT SPAWN!! Bucks caught had no indication o nesting just yet, and emales are just out cruising and waiting or a slight increase in water temp. You olks ishing the NewBass Team this weekend should be in or a lot o un.RR
    City: Sacramento

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 54-56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rom 1:00 to 5:00 in the aternoon. Mainly went out to dial in the new X-85 I put on. Boy I love this unit. Caught a 10lb limit in about 2 hours and then graphed the rest o the time. The small males and some small emales have moved up. All about 1.5lb - 2.5lb. They are repositionioning themselves daily on the points as the chase baitish and crawdads. (they were on the sides o the points today) Biggest ish came on jigs, numbers came on plastics. The wind is helping the bite.
    City: Roseville