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    Water Temp: 53-59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: On the water at 6:00 am and had a decent blade bite irst thing in the morning.Then tried jerkbait with no success.Scraped three more ish on a senko ishing til 1:00 in the aternoon, had a total o ive ish, the biggest being a 3 lb smallie on a senko, the rast were spots. Fish have not moved up yet,or this time o year the ishing is the pits.Any day now it will turn on
    City: Granite Bay

    Tips: Tried jigs,darter head worms,split shot worms with no success.

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I FISHED FOR A FEW HOURS MID AFTERNOON ON TUESDAY. WOULD OF FISHED MORE IF I HAD CHARGED THE TROLLING MOTOR BATTERY. OH WELL. I WASN'T GETTING ANY ACTION AT MY USUAL HAUNTS, SO I WENT BACK IN THE SOUTH FORK TO SEE HOW MUCH THE LAKE HAS FILLED UP. IT IS NICE TO SEE THEY ARE KEEPING THE LAKE STABLE,INSTEAD OF THE CONSTANT FLUCTUATION. THIS WAS MY FIRST TIME OUT HERE FOR A FEW MONTHS. MOTOR PROBLEMS. FISHED SOME FLATS NEAR THE CHANNEL, AND CAUGHT 3 NICE SPOTS, BEFORE THE BATTERY DRAINED. WEDNESDAY WENT BACK TO THE SAME FLAT IN THE MORNING. THE LAKE WAS REALLY CALM, AND WE WEREN'T GETTING BIT. AS SOON AS THE WIND PICKED UP WE GOT SOME ACTION. WE DRIFTED OVER THE SAME A COUPLE OF TIMES AND CAUGHT 5 FISH AND LOST JUST AS MANY. DECIDED TO FISH THE OTHER END OF THE LAKE. BAD DECISION. NOTHING GOING ON ANY WHERE ELSE WE FISHED. ALL OF OUR FISH BOTH DAYS WERE CAUGHT IN 10 FEET OR LESS, AND ONLY 1 WAS UNDER 2LBS. THE BIGGEST PUSHING 3.5LBS. I WISH I WOULD OF STAYED WHERE WE WERE AT, BUT LESSON LEARNED.
    City: Cameron Park

    Tips: PLASTICS WERE THE TICKET FOR US, BUT THATS WHERE MY CONFIDENCE IS ON THIS LAKE. I AGREE WITH MONIKER ON THE WIND. TRY TO STAY IN IT AS LONG AS YOU CAN. GOOD LUCK.

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: What a dierance a day makes,went out tuesday aternoon about 3:30 in the wind. Started throwing blades and had 7 ish in the next hour, largest going 2 1/4 lbs. wind died down and the bite shut o. later picked one up on a jerk bait over a shallow island top.Then threw a jig in a rockpile just beore dark and nailed a 5 lb largemouth,that made or a nice ride back to the dock. Then went out wednesday ,same hours, same wind,and no blade bite,no jigbite, no grub bite. Finally went to my rip bait and picked up 4 small ish beore the rain came.
    City: Granite Bay

    Tips: rip and jerk as ast as you can, they seem to want it as ast and eratic as you can make it.

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    Water Temp: 50 -53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: On the water rom 2:30 to 5:30 pm . Tough bite , one on a drop shot , one on a senko, and one missed on a jig. Tried rippin or thirty minutes with no success.Also ished jigs or some time with only one hit. Jigs have not been the ticket this year as they were last year.Ater the water level has dropped eight eet in the last two weeks, it has been holding steady the last ew days.
    City: Granite Bay

    Tips: Any day now the ish are moving in.

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out Friday aternoon and caught 4 ish. They were all spots, up to 2.5 lbs. Caught one in granite bay, and 3 o the penisula. All were caught drop shotting, with either robo worms or chompers. Most o the bites were pretty light and o o island tops.
    City: Sacramento

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Sunday I ished my irst tournament with the Folsom Bass Team. Pre-ishing over the last two weeks I had consistent limits rom 7 to 8 pounds. My best limit was about 11 pounds with a 4.0 pound kicker ish. All o my ish were caught on spider jigs o o points in the South in 30-35 eet o water. Up to last week I had a positive eeling going into this tournament. I guess I got touched by some bad karma. Saturday I layed o o my ish and tried similar water. I struggled or a limit o about 6 pounds. On Sunday, none o my ish were home. My partner and I caught our irst and only ish within the irst ew minutes, and that was it. I tried to orce a bite that wasn't happening. What's the take home lesson? When you don't catch any ish on your pattern within the irst ew hours, change it up. Punt i you have to. The Folsom Bass Team seems like a good bunch o guys. I didn't get too hard o a hard time or weighing only one ish. I wonder who I 'll draw or the next tourney. Maybe they have a coroner in their midst. I I draw him, he can pronounce my bite dead beore I blow the whole day chasing it. Props to my partner Ray. He was a great sport and a pleasure to ish with.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Would you really take a tip rom a guy who only weighed one ish? Try a banana with a treble hook.

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    Water Temp: 76-78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I only had one hit on a buzzbait but it came o then at about 12:00 i caught close to 30 bass at the dam (all yearlings)on red, yellow, and pink crappie jigs.
    City: Elk Grove

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Drew a blank this morning. Topwater, spllit shotting and crank baits just did not do it. Not on points. Not in coves. Seems like there is a lot o bait around but usually not with bass showing up with them.Rattlesnake is closed till the 26th --had to backtrack to Granite Bay. Fished the north ork.Would love some eedback or suggestions rom any o you who are catching ish. Thanks
    City: Lincoln

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    Water Temp: 63.0

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Pre- ished the tourn. on Thursday aternoon, awesome bite. For three hours 6-9pm, 20 or so ish to 3lbs. Great buzz bait bite the last 20 minutes or so- no blow ups they were crushing it. I could not keep the ish o o a wackey riged senko in the willows. I was in high spirits or Saturday.Pre-ished again Friday morning. Much slower, as the temp had started to drop with the storm ront coming in. No top water, but did catch several nice largemouth up to 4lbs in the willows. We would ind a spot catch a ish and leave saving it or Saturday. Our back up was drop shot on humps in the main body and dam with lukes thrown in. This also produced some nice smallmouth and spots to 2.5 lbs on Friday. Again, as sone as we ound decent sized ish we let the area. We could catch small spots to 1lb all day on the dam rip rap . Saturday was absolute demoralization. Every spot we had was occupied by at least 3 boats when we got to it,( one o the last boats out the gate).The wind blew and blew, with a good drop in temp.Tough bite or us, I only caught one largemouth on a wacky rigged senko at 2.97 pounds and missed a hook set on three others around willows all day. My partner got the goose egg. I tend to ish like I deer hunt, avoiding peak human activity, ishing o times and under ideal conditions or the ish, so I ask mysel why I ished this tourn, it was my third tourn. I know it was a tough bite but I was cut o once and ished all over within the 25 yd zone by the same jerk, "chick delight" .So I ask mysel why tourn ish in the irst place?I still have not igured that one out but I suppose I'll sign up or another.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Did not have any or Sat. Thursday aternoon was great, enjoy it when you get in the zone and take a kid ishing. No matter how bad it gets don't succumb to being a "jerk".

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Granite Bay area last ew days and caught a nice mixture o smallies, spots, hybrids and bigmouths. Most ish came dartheading worms, however two largemouths (2+ and 3+) came on dartheaded sot jerk baits up a little shallower. With the wind blowing I started with 1/4 oz. heads and got a ew ish but many o the bites came on the all so I switched to 1/8 oz. heads and shook the bait as it ell. The requency o bites increased and had 8-10 bites per hour. Fished the cove at Beals and it was a little slower than the main lake points and rock piles but that was my irst time back there and one ellow I talked to seemed very excited about the bedding largemouth he inds there. I saw one ish (8-10 lbs) in 5-8 eet o water around the dritwood and big metal box near Dutton's Point however she was a little smarter than me (so what else is new). Good luck.
    City: Citrus Heights

    Tips: I hear the north ork is the better o the two right now. Areas around the hazard buoys have ish and the lake lice avoid them, too.

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hit the lake about 4pm with hope that the wind would settle down a bit. It didn't until ater dark. Got tossed around pretty good all evening. The wind and cold didn't seem to eect the ishing much. My partner and I boated 30+ ish by dark. 20 small spots, 5 smallmouth and 5 spots in the 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 lb. range. All ish were caught in 8 to 18 eet o water, tight to rocks or trees. Caught Fish on 4" Magic worms, 4 and 5" Senkos, and a shad Bitsy gig with black trailer.
    City: Lotus

    Tips: Don't worry too much about the weather. Get out when you can.

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    Water Temp: 58-61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: More ishermen...way ewer ish caught this weekend. Fish weren't bunched up like last week, and weren't as agressive...guess the cooler water and weather during last week put em o a ways, and maybe pushed o the spawn or a while? They were deeper and o rocky banks this week, and hitting plastic worms. My partner Gary (aka "BassKilla")hooked a ish on a Senko and we could see another was chasing it and then or a ew seconds both ish were hooked. Stranger still, one ish came o, and the one that we boated had the hook on the outside o its head, making us think it was the second ish that we landed! A new one on us! Looks like the weather will warm this week and maybe things will get HOT!
    City: Folsom

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    Water Temp: ???

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I went ishing or bass on the ith at jacks shack and got nothing. THen on the 12th i went to new york creek cove, beals point, and jacks shack and i still got nothing. I tried everything i had. What am i doint wrong. I don't have a boat so i'm restriced to the shore. IF anybody has any tips at all please let me know. Thanks a lot. See ya on the lake.
    City: Folsom

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 4-10 rom 2:00 pm to 7:30. My partner and I boated 45 ish.I began by throwing senkos in the trees and my partner had never pitched or lipped beore.Needless to say he was not having un throwing in the trees and over them. So I rigged up grubs on darter heads and ished 5 to 10 eet o water and we banged em good. Just about every bank we ished produced.All the senko ish in the trees are running 2.5 to 3.5 consistantly. The darter head ish on banks are running 1 to 2 lbs. Went back 4-11 and caught 28 total doing the same stu.
    City: Granite Bay

    Tips: mostly dead sticking every thing and waiting to eel that rubber band eeling on the pick-up.

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    Water Temp: 51-53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Preished Friday then had the BFL tournament on Saturday. It was my irst time on the lake. Friday I had one 2.5 reaction ish(stacy/ghost) and stuck another 10 or so dropshoting 4 inch robo worms(baby bass). I would have shook them o but the pro I was with said to go ahead a set the hook. Most o ish were 1.5 to 2.25lbs(all spotted bass) but I got one 4lb largie. We also saw several ish cruising and wanting to bed. During the tournament I had one rip ish then our other bites dropshoting. Ended up with ive ish or 9.8lbs. I ished the south ork both days. The winning pro said he ripped all his ish in the main body. The winning nonboater had 15lbs with a 5lb kicker and said he splitshoted a 6" worm all day in the north ork.
    City: Petaluma

    Tips: The spawn is ready to bust open on this lake and most other lakes. I the weather gets nice most lakes, including this one, will have a lot o ish spawning the next ull moon. On saturday most o my ish came in about 30t but I think they were there because o the ront that came through. I would look very shallow unless a big storm hits. Good luck.

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Just watched the weigh in or BFL.lots o small ish,hal limited and the other hal did not.I believe that iteen lbs was the largest limit and he was a non boater.O the boaters I think thirteen lbs took irst place. A lot o respectable isherman {pros} had ten lb bags.I was expecting some large ish but it did not materialize. Good news is they will be moving up very soon. I did not hang around or the award ceremonies so could not elaborate on what was used. It made me eel good to see I'm not the only guy strugling to catch numbers o quality ish lately. Also there were 84 boats and seemed to be a very well run tournament.
    City: Granite Bay

    Tips: Find the non-boater who ished with Marcel

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    Water Temp: 52-56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Wish I could say the bite is wide open like it was last year at this time.I think the lake is behind schedule ive or six weeks.Fished Tues,Wed,and Thurs. evenings and seemed to catch a ish an hour.All ish coming on split shot or darterhead worms.Most ish around 15 t. deep, I have looked and ished very shallow and have not seen any shallow ish.Fish are not hitting jigs,senkos,cranks,blades,or ripbaits.I the warm weather keeps up,it should pick up soon.
    City: Granite Bay

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    Water Temp: 47-52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Preished Friday starting at dawn. Ripped a 2.5 along the peninsula that came o at the net. Missed several more than caught a keeper on the luckycrat. Up at the narrows, dartheaded two nice keepers on 6" bluegost worms. We struggled on the north side o the narrows and ound the water above rattlesnake to be 2-3 degrees colder and had no bites. A rockpile below rattlesnake gave me a 19.5" spot that only weighed 3.7 lbs on a senko, dragging it in 16' o water. Fished the rock garden in the aternoon and had many bites on the darthead that I didnt hook, presumably small ish. Did spinnerbait a 1.5 at 3 pm in 52 degree water. We ended up w/ 11 ish on the day w/the best 5 at 9.6 lbs.Saturday the peninsula sucked......mental note: move to dierent areas when reaction ish are not going in your area.Did darthead a 13" spot in the narrows and missed several others. Damian caught his irst smallmouth ever that went 1.5 lbs or our second ish at 11am. Dead till we were in the rock gardens still not getting bit when I remembered a lat island about 100 yds o the bank. We drug 4" worms in 6 t o water along the side o the island or 6 keepers in the last 1.5 hrs. We ended up last in the tourn w/7.07 lbs, but regained some conidence that i you keep at it, you can stumble onto something.
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: Winners ripped and threw tubes on main lake pts and same in south ork.

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    Water Temp: 48-51

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out my buddy Tim Merritt on Fri and Sat. I decided to take a day o on Friday to pre-ish or a club tourney on Sat. I hadn't been on Folsom since last May and really had no idea where to start. We started in the peninsula area with cranks and rips and didn't pick up anything in the irst hour. We then ran up around the Folsom Point area and continued throwing reaction baits in hopes o picking up a quality ish. Nothing. Around 10am we started tossing jigs and darters and got on a decent bite. We picked up a nice limit over the day anchored by a 3 1/2 pound smallie on a brown bitsy bug. On Sat. we ran right back up to the Folsom point area and tried reaction at irst light. Ater nothing or a 1/2 hour we went to the jig and darter. Once again we were on ish right away butmissed our irst three hits. Frustrating becuase hits are usually hard to come by in 48-49 degree water. Luckily the ish gave us a ew more chances and by 11am we had 3 nice darter head ish in the boat. We then headed or the north ork in the s..thouse cove area and didn't have any luck until 1:30 when Tim hits a ish that starts screaming line. I could tell he had a big spot on and as soon as I reached or the net the ish popped o. Arrrrgh! We were not eeling very conident at the point. The wind was blowing and we were running out o time. About 2:30 we ound a protected cove and I guaranteed Tim that we would put some ish in the boat. I hit one right away, but that was the only one. With a 1/2 hour to go and the winds calm we went back to the area where Tim lost his ish and hit our 2 biggest ish o the day on darter heads. O the 8 boats in the tourney, only 2 had limits. Our 6 ish came on witches T darters in 10 eet o water, but we should o had at least 10 ish in the boat. A ew other guys in the club mentioned they were on a pretty good slow roll blade bite. We inished 1st with 5 ish or 8.8 pounds.
    City: roseville

    Tips: Slow in 10 eet o water. I am glad I don't have to ish Folsom or a while. Ater spending so much time on the delta, that inesse stu really tries your patience. I have to admit though, it did eel good to hit ish on 6 pound test again.

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    Water Temp: 56-57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: got on the water at about 12:30. Decided to play hookey or a ew hours. Headed up the north ork and proceeded to catch a 2 lb smallmouth in 30t o water. then went urther north only to ind the water cooling o, so turned around and headed to the main body. I couldn't believe it but there were alot o boats out and one seemed to be on every point. My bait o choice ishing down to 35t was a jig. managed another 2.75 lb spot and went dropshotting. Then caught 3 ish on a 4" worm dropshotting. 1.5-2.25lbs. Figured I should get home or dinner and wanting to get out o the light drizzle, I booked at 4:15. One thing o note, I you ish over 30 eet deep, do yoursel and the ish a avor, bring a seringe(sp?)and know how to pop your ish. I ended up bringing home a ish because I couldn't get him to swim away(bloated). Sure was good though. Never et a smally beore.
    City: auburn