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Saturday, January 8th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I stuck 5 ish by 9:ooam in the south arm by shaking a six inch witchs tee o o rocky points in the south arm.
    City: SAC.

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    Water Temp: 49 DEG

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the south arm with a Carolina rigged witches tea4.5 worm. Caught 3 ish 2.5 to 4 lbs, 6 ish 1 to 1.5 lbs.Points, steep banks and the big ish came at the old sunkenbridge
    City: SACRAMENTO

    Tips: Fish slow

Monday, January 3rd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: There is a decent jig bite at Folsom right now. Fish are relatively shallow, about 15 to 25 eet. Mostly largemouths. They seem to hold on steep banks with large rock and in shade.
    City: Orangevale

Wednesday, December 29th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the north ork drop-os caught my limit in an hour.Fish were all about 3lb at about 20 t. I went in the middle o the day.
    City: roseville

    Tips: Use dark colored worms and ish rock piles.

Sunday, December 26th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 52-54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished T-shoot on Sunday with great results. Cranked ALL dayor 4 ish that weighed 9.4 lbs. Big ish weighed 3.3 lbs.Cranked Poes Super Cedar 300's around rock that had buckbrush and trees in the area. All the ish were in 10-15 eeto water and rom some o the other anglers stories, a goodreaction bite was ON.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: A reel with the right gear ratio is the key to successulcrankin'. My reel is a 1976 Abu Garcia 5500 spooled with 14lb. test Big Game line. With a 4.6-to-1 gear ratio, we wereable to crank at a slower speed. Also used a MODIFIED PoesSuper Cedar 300. I modiy my own baits by drilling a holejust in ront o the ront hook hanger a epoxying a 3/16 oz.mojo weight in the hole. This slows the baits wobble and allows the bait to suspend when stopped. All these tips puttogether allowed us to be successul on an early winter day.

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished irst light to 2 pm. Caught 4 on a Cataic Trout. Largemouths o 4.0, 3.2, and 2.0. Also caught a spot that went 3.0.
    City: Orangevale

Monday, December 20th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 52 very cold de

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: In light o the act I was preishing or a T-shoot, I'llgive as much ino as I can. Picked up on a pretty goodcrankbait bite beore the sun hit the water. I believe thislunar cycle has alot to do with the increased BIG ish move-ments. Caught three ish totalling about 7.5-8.0 lbs. in 10minutes, then let not wanting to ruin a good thing.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Shad replicas will work really good now. Slow your retrieveater about the irst 8-10 cranks o the reel, even pausingoccasionally.

Sunday, December 19th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Trolled a Castaic Trout all day with no takers. Saw a point and on a hunch rigged up a jig and pork. First cast caught a 6.8 pound largemouth.
    City: Orangevale

Saturday, December 18th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished or a ew hours this morning. Caught a 5.8 pound spotted bass on a Castaic trout.
    City: Orangevale

Monday, December 13th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 52-54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started o early with a 14" crank ish. Went to RattlesnakeBar and tried to catch ish below birds that were working ashad school pretty hard, 1 kingisher/no bass. Tried a ewother spots,but I don't think I hung around one spot longenough or the ish to move up. Have a ew good holes letor the shoot on the 26th. Fished mostly new water all day.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Didn't catch enough to give this ino

Sunday, December 12th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 54.4-54.9

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Did the castaic troll all morning with trout and shad with no luck. Did mark a lot o ish rom 2' to 40'.
    City: Brentwood

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: got out late,about 11 oclock,headed up to my av spot on north ork and hit what must o been the tail end o a topwater bite.big spooks.caught 3 or 6lbs then tried drop shot or irst time ever.partner keept throwin spook. no luck.moved to west side rock banks and dropshotted,partner splitshotted and caught 2 more,1 was 3.1.dropshot never got bit.blades and cranks never got bit either.throw the spook and cover water in morn then splishot morndawn.5 ish or 10lbs.
    City: szc

Saturday, December 11th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water @ 7 o'clock. Threw topwater irst, but didn't give it much time. Switched to crankin' and stuck a 3.5 lb spot right away. That was all or the cranks aside rom a 14 " trout. Switched to split shottin' and my Father-in-law pulled a 2.5 lb. spot out o his hat on the irst cast! It was 8 o'clock and we had two ish or 6 lb already! Well, it was a good start or a GREAT day on the water. We stayed on the main body and ocused on two or three dierent spots, rotating them troughout the day. The ish are deinitely eeding, but only at certain times o the day. Luckily, we were able to hit each o our spots at "dinner time" on one visit or another. We ended up catching over 25 ish and the weather couldn't have been better! We caught our ish 25-35 eet deep on 3 inch leeches. Color didn't seem to matter as we caght them on purple ghost, delta red, morning dawn, and green weenie. The bite was very subtle, just pressure. Best ive went 10.5 lb, best seven almost 14 lb. A very un day!!! All ish were spots and smallmouth, no largemouths to report today.
    City: sacramento

    Tips: Set on anything ----- you probably won't eel a bite the majority o the time, just that old rubber band pressure. Work very slowly and don't be araid to let your bait sit dead still or long periods o time. About hal o our ish came while deadsticking. The ish seem to be holding and staying in certain areas, so i you mark ish and can't get them to bite, try back in a while ------they'll turn on sooner or later.

Saturday, December 4th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished a Castaic Trout or most o the morning. Caught three nice ish. 9.4, 8.6 and 6.1 pounds. Also caught two s,allies about 2 pounds apiece on a Nipper green wienie.
    City: Orangevale

Thursday, November 25th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 58-60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Thanks er giving shoot. Found ish up to 10t then they pulled out 35t this seems to be holding steady. I have been ishing Folsom quite alot and this has been the ticket. Early morning try the reaction bite give it about 2hrs. Then look or the ish to pull out to the deeper areas and gather together. Dont be surprised to ind top water bite still going on its hit or miss on top. Split shot witches tea or salt and pepper seems to be the color now ? haven't tried too many other colors than those this time.
    City: Granite Bay

    Tips: Look or deep structure and throw up camp when you ind the ish its a matter o time till they bite

Sunday, November 21st, 1999

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Trolled the castaic shad in 25-35 t o water. Caught two 2 lb spots near mooney ridge area and dyke 4. Trolling motor batteries gave way and cut the day short at about 11:30.Used the ProCure Shad Butter as scent or the Castaic shad. Had a couple other takers shake o. Not sure how big as they were still deep when they got o.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: When the wind came up the waves were coming in pretty strong at Brown's Ravine. Lost a cleat o the boat trying to get to the truck to trailer the boat.

Thursday, November 18th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 61.8

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Wie and I were on the water about 0930 hours. Fished the North orkound ish in 20' o water on rocks. We ished until 1400 hrs, caughtnine (9) or about 17 pounds. Fished magic worms 4.5" and shaken.
    City: Shingle Springs

    Tips: Fish tend to be hanging near the bottom, did not mark any suspended ish.

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    Water Temp: 62 +

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Pre-ishing or the Shambre Invitational. Had good day with 12 keepers and the best ive going 12-13 lbs. Stuck one 3.5 lb. Largemouth and my partner hung o all things a 3 lb. German Brown (good dinner). Should have a good turnout or the Shambre Invitational on Sunday, November 14, 1999, there are a ew slots let (25 boat max.) so see post in ishing orum or details. Tight lines
    City: Granite Bay

    Tips: Fish were gorging on pond smelt and crawdads. One ish had 4 pond smelt and 2 craws in his greedy little mouth.

Monday, November 15th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 60 - 64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: TOUGH DAY FOR MOST AT THE SHAMBRE INVITATIONAL ON SUNDAY. WINNING WEIGHT OF 8.0 LBS. CAUGHT BY PAUL ROBINSON & SCOTT WILLIAMSON WERE CAUGHT MOSTLY BY WORMING THE NORTH FORK IN THEIR VARIOUS HOT SPOTS. BIG FISH CAUGHT BY JACK GODSEY ALSO CAME ON A WORM. MY DAY WAS FRUSTRATING AS THE FISH WE HAD GOING ON THURSDAY JUST SEEM TO DISAPPEAR. MANAGED TWO SMALL SPOTS, ONE ON A SPINNERBAIT AND THE OTHER ON A CRANKBAIT. LAKE HAS TURNED OVER SO MOST FISH ARE RELATING TO THE BOTTOM DWELLERS LIKE THE POND SMELT AND CRAWS. LOOK FOR A GOOD WINTER PATTERN FOR FOLSOM IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS OR SO.
    City: ROSEVILLE

    Tips: WORMS IN MORNING DAWN & WITCHES T ARE GOOD, BUT START LOOKING FOR THOSE SLOWW ROLLED SPINNERBAIT FISH COMING ON SOON.

Monday, November 8th, 1999

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    Water Temp: Unk

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My wie and I ish Sat and Sun last week. Saturday nothing. Not a bite. Fished South arm and main lake. Sunday got a little earlier start. Cought two near Browns Ravine. The nothing until about noon up the rattlesnake arm. Nothing o any size. But still a nice day on the water. All ish split shotten magic worms.
    City: San Jose