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Thursday, May 10th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 70-73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Tried North Fork with crank baits around submerged boulders in the 5 mph zones. Picked up a couple of dink spots. Headed for NY Creek and fished trees with Senkos and got a few 2-3# spots as well as one on shorelines with crank bait (that fish was kind of beat up looking). Moved to Jack's Shack and got a 2# large in the trees. There are so many Carp up there it's crazy. Ended the day with a good late afternoon bite working the shoreline by Mormon Dam 12-15 depth casting to shoreline and in the trees with cranks. Mixture of spots and smallies ranging from 2-3#. Big fish was a 3.4 spot on crank bait.
    City: EDH

    Tips: Watermelon/Lemon Senkos and gold rip/crank baits got us our fish today, about 15 total. No big fish but a fun day on the water!

Friday, May 4th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 62-63 (colder

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished coves and trees for 4 hrs. with plastics. Just one bite and one fish (in 15-20 ft. of water,) but a nice 4-5 lb. spot-- one of the prettiest ones I've seen. Colors were great. Have these fish already spawned in this colder water?
    City: Folsom

    Tips: They must be either: shallower than 15-20 ft. or deeper than 15-20 ft. or didn't like what I was throwing....

Sunday, April 29th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: fished submerged willows from 5-25ft. picked up 2lber on natural shad senko t-rigged on a flickshake 1/16oz jighead. eventually changed to just wacky rigging and picked up a 3-13oz and another 2lber in the trees. buddy surprised us with a few just under keepers on rattle trap..craw colored. (hmmmm, never thought anything craw colored worked in folsom lake). got a couple blow-ups on topwater popper but nothing on the hook. bro was busy breaking off snags from trying to throw his senkos into the thickest submerged trees. finally at the late afternoon, decided to try west wall of an inlet..nothing in the trees hit but when we worked the wall where the wakes were splashing against it, picked up 3 more keepers and a few scrappy dinks. most hits on the senkos but also a couple on 4" finesse worms semi c-rigged using 1/8 oz bullet sinker and 18-20" leader. surprise of the day was seeing the hits on the lipless crank.
    City: folsom

    Tips: senkos in the submerged trees worked for us. alot of missed strikes from the little bait stealers but don't hesitate to set the hook on a couple of tics..don't wait.

Sunday, April 22nd, 2012

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    Water Temp: 58-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Lol!! I'm glad I didn't read the previous post!! I would have felt extremely incompetent!! Fished from 7AM to 4pm. Threw everything at them with the end result 2 fish. One on a pearl grub near trees and one on a Stacy Perch colored Rip-Bait. All in all it was still fun. I heard the Future Pro Tour was won by the same team that caught the 15Lb Bass in a Tourney the week before!!
    City: W.Sac

    Tips: The opposite of me. Should have drop-shotted but I hate that type of fishing!!

Friday, April 20th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 65-68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Wow the bite is on fire this is one of the best big fish years I've seen in a while! Can't wait to see the results for the future pro and wish I was fishing it cause I got them figured out here's some tips for the guys who are fun fishing and just wanna catch fish Morning dawn robo worms on a dart head or drop shot but you really have to fish it slow I mean pretty much dead sticking the bait and letting the boat move your worm, fish are staging near spawning areas in 3 to 15 feet. If you wanna catch a little bit bigger fish senkos in the trees will be good for a couple nice bites right now but I definantly think the tournament will be won on swimbaits and the A-rig... good luck and tight lines everyone please feel free to email me if anyone has any questions. FISH ON!!
    City: Orangevale

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I am a moron , I wrote the previous post talking about the dirty water thinking it was algae or pollen . It just hit me ,the lake just turned over . I have fished Folsom for many years and have never seen this . Maybe it will disappear as fast as it came ?
    City: Granite Bay

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Bite has seemed to toughen up , I think its the calm before the storm . Catching around 2 fish per hour with a three pounder for every six or seven fish. The water is turning brown and its not mud , must be algae or pollen , the south arm seems to be all colored with the north arm being half brown and half clear. It will stop site fishermen from finding spawners.
    City: GRANITE bay

Sunday, April 15th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished in the afternoon with wifey. Caught two fish for 5 hours.. But hey it was nice being out on the water with my fishing buddy. Her Spotted Bass went 2 lbs and mine went a pound.. She caught hers on a 4 inch Senko wacky rigged. I caught mine on a Kreepy crawler.
    City: W. Sac

    Tips: If I had to do over I would have drop shotted points. I tried to split shot some points no luck..

Saturday, April 14th, 2012

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: wow watched the cbaf weight in today one guy brought in a 15lber biggest fish iv ever seen his other 4 fish went for 15lbs too his total bag was 31lbs crazy bigg fish for folsom

Friday, April 13th, 2012

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I didn't mean to start a ruckus... I appoligize for giving the ethnic identification of the guys in the boat that anchored on top of me. That was not my intent. I do however feel that I did give some decent info related to the reports page that may help others which was my intent. Sorry for the uneeded drama.
    City: Loomis

    Tips: Take a kid fishing!!! I hope I will be taking one little guy fishing in about 3-4 years, since I just found out yesterday that my unborn child already has it's own "flippin stick"!

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Bigmouth i had to stop at a dime to give them back their two cent. I guess u want yours too ey

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: riverars is that a fishing report or just your 2 cents?
    City: Folsom

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: To the idiots that's maken this forum about anything but fishing. Go to fish Sniffer n give ur 2 cents there. IDIOTS!!!

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    Water Temp: 60-63

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 3-4:30. Two bites on plastics. Landed one really nice spot pushing 4#. Tried reaction baits with no results. Wish I had more time on the water.
    City: Roseville

Saturday, April 7th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 53-57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Ranger pilot: we were the Tracker that was 100yrds from you when that boat dropped anchor on you. After he was done with you he came into our cove and proceeded to blow it out. He beached his craft destroying at least one bed we knew of. We had just smacked two fat spots and then they were gone!
    City: Santa Clara

    Tips: Please have som courtesy for others. Had this been a Tournament there would have been a Hudd upside your head. We freely give out fishing information just don't ask us while we are on the water. We feel ya Rangerpilot

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Back to the previous post... We ended up with 10 fish, 5 spots and 5 largies. Largest just over 4 and best 5 went about 14 lbs.
    City: Loomis

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Out again today at safe light. This time with fellow angler and friend "Pony Boy". Fished til 6 pm and the day was a bit tougher than 4/5. We each caught 1 in the 1st hour, but a very long stretch before we hooked up again. Late afternoon bite was much better compared to the morning. The fish seemed to have backed out a bit, though they were still in 15 feet or less. All fish caught on a variety of plastics and no reaction bite for us.
    City: Loomis

    Tips: What's the deal with the Asian anglers that I keep seeing everytime I go out to Folsom these days? They load up 5-12 people in a boat and drop them off on shore to different parts of the lake to fish while the boater fishes by himself in the boat. Today after he droppped everyone off, he pulled his boat up right next to me and dropped anchor and cast out a line where I was already fishing for about an hour and then started asking me questions??? Now I consider myself to be pretty friendly and share info, but if you pull up on me and start casting where I'm casting...you might want to watch the back of your head for incomming Huddlestons!

Thursday, April 5th, 2012

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water at high noon and fished til 6. Caught 9 and hit for the cycle(spot, largie and smallmouth). Best 5 went 17+. 1 on reaction and the rest on plastics all in less than 15 feet deep.
    City: Loomis

    Tips: Water is coming up fast so watch out for debris up to 7' long.

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

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    Water Temp: didn't even loo

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: o heim, you're not alone...my bro and me have been fishing folsom since late 80s and now that i'm a decade resident (my bro's been here since mather was an air force base), we still have a love/hate relationship with folsom lake. sometimes we come out with 10-12 fish (no, we're not gonna tell you stories like these other guys with 30 fish, probably true for some but most are fudgin'. But yeah, we have some spots we tend to catch, but not all the time. I've actually caught my limit waiting for my bro to park the trailer at Dike 8. But then we've also been skunked so many times, we're not welcome at family gatherings. But yeah, it's our back yard too, but we fish the Delta.
    City: folsom

    Tips: Find what works for you and work it. Everyone will tell you, whatever worked at some other lake will likely not work at Folsom. I've had Pro-Am friends come up to Folsom and say 'NEVER AGAIN'.
    It's not Clear Lake, it's not anything like you've ever fished. But sometimes, the fishin' is catchin'. Headin' to the Delta......

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Days like this ... I sure do miss Jim..aka..jimmyCrackCorn...fishing report. Pulling up a 10 plus lbers back 2 back when all else is struggling.. jim we miss u!!! He must be practicing for Coffee Cup tournament

    Tips: When jim speaks. All else should listen. Plz dont be rude n raise ya hands b4 asking questions for tips..words to yo ma-da