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Sunday, February 28th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 50-52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: ished with the NorCal Trophy Bass Hunters Club. Threw reaction baits to the banks without much luck. Did ind a reaction bite on cranks and blades in 5' down to 10 or so. Managed to drag up a worm ish as well, but the ish were very scattered. All spots to almost 3 lbs.
    City: Soquel

    Tips: Some ish are deinitely staging.

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    Water Temp: 50-52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got 2 spinnerbaits, 2 on crankbaits and 1 on worms. All ish were spots between 2 & 3 pounds. They came in 5-10 eet o water spread out through the day. Had to cover a lot o water. Couldn't ind any concentrations o ish. Water dropped quite a bit today ater being stable all week.
    City: Fair Oaks

    Tips: n/a

Saturday, February 27th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 50.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Awesome shallow bite today on reaction baits. Most ish were smallmouth to 3 pounds and small spots although I got my biggest ever olsom largemouth to the side o the boat beore she spit the crankbait. (shoulda used a net!)
    City: Fair Oaks

    Tips: n/a

Friday, February 26th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 50-52

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out and threw blades. Fished or 3 hours and got 5 bass. 1 spot, 1 smallie and 3 blacks. 1.5 to 3 lbs. Fished shallow and slow. When the bass hit it was a hard bite. Lite wind and overcast.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: Your avorite blade and shallow.

Thursday, February 25th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 47

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Flat wacked em today on a Tail Kicker. at 8:30 caught my irst ish, itweighed 3.15. I moved and immediately caught a 3.4. let that spot and caught a 4.6. moved to anopther spot a caught 4 ish in the 2 lb. range. I kept a tally on my cul em rite system and my limit or the day or 5 ish was 17.4 lbs.
    City: Citrus Heights

    Tips: Spots and smallmouth are on gravel banks in preparation o rthe spawn. Largemouth are still hard to ind. Steady water levels and warmer weather have moved ish very shallow. When you think you're ishing in 3 eet o water, you're too deep.

Sunday, February 14th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 47

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 2-13 and 2-14. Water muddy in the arms and stained in the main lake. Throw cranks and rip and blades. In the muddy a Fat ree med. in the pearl white and also a blue back silver side one. In the mud a hot lips in crawdad. All were slow, as i slow rolling a blade and stop and go. rip bait in the clearer water. 6 inch home maadein the gold bottomblack back style with added glitter, made to sit when stoped no rise. Blades were white on white.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: SLOW. SLOW. Wind blown pts.in the morning and when the sun comes out rip in the clean water.

Friday, February 12th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 47-50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had the pleasure o spending the day on the water with ellow nutcases Dan F--> and Chris. Got a ew short hits but that was about it. As I was strictly looking or a big bass bite I was tossing a modiied castaic sot body trout and working it like a rip bait & also like a dying ish. Also threw out an unmodiied castaic trout and deadsticked it over main points and around the dam area. Got one huge boil on it and that's enough to keep my interest up.
    City: Fair Oaks

    Tips: From reports I heard at the ramp, sounded like a crankbait was the ticket or some ish, but not many limits that I heard o. Gold Country Bass Club was there and the winning wieght was 10+ with a 6+ kicker or three ish.

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    Water Temp: 47-50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished in both orks and main body. Caught small limit by 11:00 on cranks in main body. Spent next 2 hours in the north ork without a hit. Finished in the south ork around NYCreek (very muddy and colder than main body) - no hits. Main body bite was airly shallow 5-14 eet and turned on when the sun hit the water.
    City: Fair Oaks

    Tips: Big luctuations in water depths means ish will be suspended. But, when water stabilizes or 2 or 3 days, the ish should move shallow very ast...great rip bite on points and spinnerbait bite on lats at that time.

Saturday, February 6th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: There was a good rip bite early on clown rogue. Had a limit in 45 minutes with a 17" trout and a small salmon mixed in or un. Also caught a 5-1/4 lb spot on a trout pattern AA lunker swim bait.
    City: Orangevale

    Tips: n/a

Monday, February 1st, 1999

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    Water Temp: 47-49

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the lake at 1000, cranked, bladed, wormed and jigs, nothing till 1400 then the bite turned on or i ound them. At that time it was easy to catch them. Got all o my ish throwing a crank bait in the south ork. Fished the step walls with the wind. 3 ish in 5 min. smallest was a 2 lb. spot. Got a 3.5 lb. large mouth, a 2lb. large and a 2.5 large. The bite was tough till then.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: Crank [slow]

Sunday, January 31st, 1999

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    Water Temp: 45

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the south ork until game time. cranked my butt o and the only thing I caught was a cold!!! somebody needs to tell the bass that there is a crank bait bite.
    City: Sheridan

    Tips: water temp was 3 degrees cooler than riday look or em deep.

Saturday, January 30th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the lake at appx 08:30 and ished the north ork. Graphed ish on the usual stu (points and rockpiles) but could not get ANYTHING to bite. Worms, darterheads, cranks, jigs - nothing !!! Do the Folsom bass know that they are supposed to start the pre-spawn migration ???? What's the deal ???? Let the north went to Beals, Dike 8, and the south and stayed till 3:00pm....same story. Maybe the ish are waiting or the results o the Clinton trial...(they must be Republicans)
    City: Roseville

    Tips: I don't know...somebody please tell me.

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    Water Temp: 47-49

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out at 0900 till 1400 caught 3 trout on crank bait in the south move to the north and got 1 3 lb. spot in 10 eet got 1 on a worm 1.5lb. went back to the south to inish up the day and got another dink on a crank bait in Anderson. Talked to a ew others who had nothing.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: Char. and blue crank bait. Summer Moss 6 inch worm

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Here's my report or "eliminating" water! Mostly threw big plastics (10-12 inch worms) and slow rolled 3/4 oz spinnerbaits with large grub trailers. Just looking or good ish. Worked shallow to 40 eet. Had a ew tail biters (probably spots or trout) on both baits but no takers or the big baits. From watching and talking with others, it was obvious that there is a good crank bite going.
    City: Fair Oaks

    Tips: n/a

Monday, January 25th, 1999

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went to Oak Point in Granite bay, worked some tree's, tried a ew spots, got a couple dinks on a rattle trap (red crawdad) around 10:30 move up to another set o tree's that had a deeper dropo, and got one that had to be around 2 - 2.5 (no scale) on black jig w/bluegill yamamoto grub.
    City: Fair Oaks

    Tips: n/a

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    Water Temp: 46

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished all morning, lots o boats out there. I ished the south ork and the middle peninsula. I could not believe the ish were so shallow, 10 to 20 eet, all spotted bass.It looks like they are in a semi prespawn mode. Caught some emales, mostly males.Seem to be on small rock, used dart heads 1/8 oz. and green original weenies. The bite ell o about noon or so. Overall the bite was pretty good, o course come tournament time, my bite will suddenly disappear as usual.
    City: SHERIDAN

    Tips: 8# test Magnathin, 1/8 oz dart head, 4"worm, brown or green.slow slow slow.

Sunday, January 24th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 46-48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Folsom Bass Team had a club tournament today. Winning weight was a little over 10 pounds. All the winner's ish came on crankbaits o major points.
    City: Fair Oaks

    Tips: With the warm rains o the last week, the surace temperature has risen signiicantly. Look or bait ish to move up into the warm water with good bass ollowing. Good time or cranking or ripping.

Saturday, January 16th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 44

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Norcal Trophy Hunters had a small tournament out o Folsom this Saturday. Fishing was tough and the bite very slow. One member managed to locate ish up to 2# on deep points throwing a Watermelon Red Brush Hog and brown jig. With the recent rain, we ound warmer water in the backs o coves up to 48 degrees. Found numerous shad balls but no ish eeding under them.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: n/a

Thursday, January 7th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 47.5-48.3

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched in the og and headed out the North Fork. Marked a lot o ish in the 24 - 36 oot range holding o rocky points in the Narrows. Picked up a keeper using a Texas rigged 5" green weenie with red lake. The aternoon was spent in the main body area ishing humps. All ish seemed to relate to the South sides o the humps and were holding in 6 - 13 eet on structure. Splitshotting a 3" purple leach brought in two more. Strictly a pressure bite with absolutely no tick or tap, just pressure. Once I detected pressure that move with the rod, I would eed line to the ish. Sometimes they would drop the bait, but i I didn't give them extra line and attempted to set the hook at irst detection, I would only bring in a 2" leach.
    City: Granite Bay

    Tips: Key to catching: Slow presentation and giving them line. Hope you have a successul trip next time out.

Sunday, December 27th, 1998

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out with Dean Babcock rom 11:00 am to 3:00 pm, ished north ork irst with one 2 pound spot at the narrows. Ran back to the main body in the aternoon and caught 7 nice spots o the rocks. We caught all o the ish on 6 inch worms rigged on a dart head, about 25 to 30 eet deep.
    City: Lincoln