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Sunday, March 19th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 57-60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We ished the main body near dike 8. Fished a reaction bite and spanked them. Most o the ish were cookie cutter sizes 1.5-2.5. We caught about 18 o them o the rip rap and near the launch. The traic was moderate, and the reaction died about 10am. We had lunch came back about 2pm ater adjusting the motor and went back. We got some on blades, the wind however was very strong think this keyed them on or this bite later. We were able to at will catch them o the same areas with just about anything. We hit up the North ork ater we got tired o the big waves wetting us down. We hit the cove near the Granite Bay launch and ripped the submerged trees with clown and got 4 nice ish. Used a Mark Sosin 6in clown. This big bait was out producing the 4in rip bait? Our biggest bass caught by my buddy weighed in at 3.11lb nice smallie. Caught two more that were close to that size. Wasn't able to ind any large mouth all ish were either spots or smallies?
    City: GraniteBay

    Tips: Believe that the the early bite was due to the cloud cover. When the sun came out ished shut down on this bite. The bite in the evening was sparked by some great waves kicking up the ood. Try the rip rap they maybe loading up or the spawn? First ull moon o March I am told starts the hatch o crawdads. Gotta stay big to catch there attention away rom the good crawdads? It worked atleast this day

Saturday, March 18th, 2000

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went out today at 10:00 am out o Granite Bay to brake in the new boat. Fished a little in the north arm using carolina rigged lizzard and cranking a at ree shad. Nothing all day. Where are the ish?
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: don't have any since we only ished or about one hour. spent the rest o the time just boating around

Friday, March 17th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 54.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Found a terriic split-shot bite in the North Fork. Bite started at 11:45 and lasted until about 3:00. Probably could have caught more, but got tired o ighting the wind. Partner and I caught between 25-30 ish during that time. Oxblood 4.5" weines ished in 2-13 eet was the hot ticket, but color was not be much o a actor since we caught them on eight dierent colors o that same rocky point. The ish were mostly spots running 1.5 lbs, a couple o 2 lb smallmouth and one 3 lb. largemouth. The big suprise was the 5.5 lb spotted bass I caught on the last cast o the day.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: Main river rocky points that drop o into deep water. Did not catch any ish rom the nearby willows. Best bite came in the aternoon, ater the sun had warmed the rocks.

Saturday, March 11th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 52-54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Lanched rom Granite Bay ished the main body. Caught ishshaking 6" oxblood worms and dragging 4" smoke-red lake worms.Fishing was tough but managed about 12#'s. Found ish on points rom 2-15 eet
    City: Sacramento

Sunday, February 27th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished West Coast Team tournament on 2/26/00.Finished 14thout o 43 boats.Had 9.71Lbs. just over 15Lbs. won tourney.Had early limit but could not get a kicker ish.Culledish all day long.Caught ish throwing ripbaits,crankbaitsand carolina rigs(morning dawn/oxblood).Caught all oish in main body.
    City: woodland,ca

Saturday, February 26th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Brandon Youngblood and I ish the West Coast tean event here on Saturday. We had our limit in 30 minutes ripping a Staycee Lucky Crat Minnow in the main body. Most ish are small however, so it took all day culling to get 12 pounds. The trick was to let your rip bait sit still or 3 to 5 seconds between rips. The tournament was won with iteen pounds. We needed just one big ish but didn't get it... We did have un a lot o un catching 20+ rip ish however... The rip bite will continue in the stormy weather we've been having. Next Tournament on the lake will be NewBass on March 12th. I guess we'll give that a try...
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Let your Rip bait sit still or 3 to 5 seconds.

Monday, February 21st, 2000

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    Water Temp: 52-54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Needed to get out to erase my utter ailure that wasBerryessa last Saturday. No reaction ish in my usualhaunts so I plied those areas with plastics. Splitshottin'Seducer plastics in water rom 6-20 eet deep workedlater in the day. Caught three ish to 2.5 lbs. (1 smallie,2 spots). Ran into Scott Williamson up the north orkand witnessed him catch a 6 lb.+ catish on a darter head zipper worm (got the photo or evidence). Nice ishon light line, all the ish were returned to the laketo ight another day.
    City: ROSEVILLE

    Tips: Water temp will become a actor in the coming weeks, ishare starting to stage on the irst breakline near goodspawning lats. Just keep moving and trying dierent things until you connect, then duplicate that technique.

Saturday, February 19th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched around 12:30 Fished until dark. Caught 12 ish between my partner and I. All ish were shallow, in 6-9 t. Shaking worms on 1/8 oz. darter.
    City: Sacramento

Friday, February 18th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 51-54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the south ork rom 8-2. Ripped three small ish 1-2 lbs) on shallow rocky points on clown colored Bomber uspending Long-A. All ish came rom about 8' o water. Graphed large concentrations o ish in 24 - 30 t. but could not get them to play.
    City: Elk Grove

Monday, February 7th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 53 Deg.

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Finding a great jig bite when the sun warms up.Fished themain body and North arm 1-29 and had 15 ish up to 4 lbs.Went back evening 2-1 3pm to 5pm and caught 6 ish to 2lbs.on jigs and rip baits.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Start ishing shallow to deep to locate ish. most o my ish were 8 t. or less

Sunday, February 6th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 49-51

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got out just ater sun-up and ripped one spot that went about 1.5 lbs on the main body. Went over to the penninsulaand saw lots o bait and ish on the graph, but no takers.Went up north to a cobblerock wall and tore them up. Split-shottin' brown/ire tail reapers in about 35-40 eet took3 ish (2.25, 2.5, and a 3.25 pig). Also had many more bites, but couldn't get them set.
    City: ROSEVILLE

    Tips: Very slowwwwww and only eelin' pressure bites. No thumpin'just a little more weight on the line than normal, SET THEHOOK. Ripped Luckey Crat Staysee on main body or early ish. Prespawn is just around the corner.

Saturday, February 5th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 51-52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I ished a Gold Country Bassers tournament Sat. and I came in 5th and Rodney Scott my partner came in 4th. I stayed up the South Fork all day I got two keewpers on a 1/2oz. willowlea spinner bait one blade chartreuse and the other white and caught 2 keepers. Rodney threw a rip bait and got one ish on a clown roauge. I moved arther back in the South Fork and we ished an area with a lat and a rock wall but just ished the rock wall that was 12 t. I kept the boat in 10-6t o water and we pulled 11 keepers o o it but no big ish. The big ish o the tournament was a 5.67lbs caught on a peach ace ristorap. We were the only boat to bring in two limits and also got best combined boat weight.
    City: Marysville, Ca

    Tips: Our worms were 4" moorning dawn but, the bites came quicker when you bit it down to 3". Rodney used a blueghost and we both caught the same amount o keepers. Work the worm slow 1/8th oz. darter head and sharpen the hooks beore you put them in your tackle box and it saves you time and you know all o your hooks have been sharpened. Bounce crankbaits o o rocks.

Monday, January 24th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 52 to 54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished main body around Granit Bay and up the north some. Fished all day till 3:30, caught eleven ish, best ive going 14.4 on the cull em right. Shook brass and glass all day in 45 to 60 t. Was suprised when my irst ish o the day was a 4lb 4ounce largemouth. Caught two more largemouth the rest o the day going 3lb 7ounce and 2lb 9 ounce. All ish came on a morning dawn 6inch worm. Tried reaction or about two hours with no takers so went back to shaking to ill out my limit. All ish were on deepwater lats . Only marked one or two at a time but set on them till they bit.
    City: Citrus Heights

    Tips: Watch your graph and ish deep. Also or every bass I caught I would catch two trout. I think they were schooled together but didnt mark many schools?

Saturday, January 22nd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the south ork until 1:00. Caught ish in the morning until 9:30 then the ish just disappeared. Caught ish on rip bait and shaking worms in 15-20 eet. Best ish went 4 #'s.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Start shallow in the mornings. Then move to deeper water in the aternoon. I think that Is were the ish went to????

Thursday, January 20th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 47-52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The main body o Folsom is still clear ater the rain, it is also 51-52 deg.I went up the north arm ishing points thewhole way. Just beore Rattlesnake bar water is cold and muddy about 6 inches o visability, temp was 47 deg.Fished2 pm to 5pm. One ish 1.5 lbs on a crankbait.
    City: SACRAMENTO

    Tips: Hope its better this weekend

Tuesday, January 18th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

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    City: FRESNO

Monday, January 17th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 48.30

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Cold ront, rain, light cold wind, og, and high presssure...no ish caught
    City: Citrus Heights

    Tips: With weather such as this....stay home

Saturday, January 15th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 48-53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went south to ish points and drop os. Early was good using rip baits, later ished plastics was getting bit aboutevery 20-30 minutes. had ten ish, best ive went 9 lbs.There really are shallow ish, hal in ten oot o water.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: look or warmer water, it varied quite a bit

Thursday, January 13th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Thanks or the tip Hulapopper....I used the tee, drop shot in 34 eet o water o the sunken island adjacent the dam in the early am...kaa-pow...three in the boat within 1 hour....all were small, about 1.5 lbs maybe one at just under 2 lbs, but all o them were keepers.Hung out at the meat wall on the North Fork or 2 hours & caught 2 more on clear salt and pepper leaches. These were nice ish, 2+ lbs each. Was home in time or lunch.Best day I've had in three weeks...
    City: Citrus Heights

    Tips: Get to your spots early....ish slow...use scent on all o your plastic baits.

Monday, January 10th, 2000

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    Water Temp: cold!

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I ished Beale's point area rom my tube. Tried reapers,slow rolling a spinner bait, and cranking along the rip-rapand some stick ups. I caught a trout on a storm lightningshad.

    Tips: Fish or trout in winter!