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Welcome to Folsom Bass Team's Website

Congratulations to Larry Baltezore & his Guest Bruce Sheldon for winning the January tournament at Bullards Bar! It was an extremely tough day for all, with no limits weighed! Larry & Bruce took top honors with 2 fish for 11.14 lbs, which included Bruce's monster 7.18 lb Spot that was big fish for the event! Danny Miller's personal best Spotted Bass that weighed 6.76 lbs was good for second big fish for the event. The official results are posted under the Tournament Results section of the website.

Congratulations to Mike Hara, the 2010-2011 Folsom Bass Team Angler of the Year! This is Mike's 4th FBT AOY title - way to go Mike!

Our next event is February 12th at Lake Berryessa. The entire 2011-2012 tournament season dates and locations are posted in the Tournament Schedule section of the website. Our next meeting is Wednesday February 1st, please join us if you can.

We are currently seeking new members, please contact a board member for more information.

Events: We enjoy team-draw tournaments each month and have a Tournament of Champions at the end of the year.

Meetings: Folsom Bass Team meetings are open to all. The club meets on the first Wednesday of the month, except for holidays. Meetings are held at the Round Table Pizza, 9500 Greenback Lane, Orangevale. The meetings start at 6:30 PM.

Membership/Dues: Annual membership dues are $20.00. We are enrolled in the American Bass Association - Bass Club Insurance Program. Contact us through our online form if you are interested in becoming a member.

History: The Folsom Bass Team is a group of anglers dedicated to the sport of fishing and supporting conservation for the warm water fishery. The club was founded in 1988 by guards of the Folsom prison and is still going strong today.

Please e-mail a board member:

Rob Ridge - President

Cedric Wong - Vice-President

Mike Tremont - Tournament Director

Mike Hara - Secretary

Steve Buchanan - Treasurer

Dancin' on the Delta - April 2011

In the midst of a steady 25mph breeze with gusts of 40, a solid field launched out of B&W Resort on April 30th.  Big bag dreams crashed quickly as many simply couldn't get to or fish their own personal promised land. Overall small bag weights at weigh-in reflected Lady Delta's bad mood. ( if you listened closely you could hear her laughing at the scales).
 
Farres Everly and MIchael Booker grabbed a quick limit of 9.71lbs caught mostly on heavy chatterbaits. Farres added it was the heaviest reaction bait he had with him and about the only thing he could manage in the wind.  Their limit was good enough for third place.
 
Jay Leclerc and Kim Adkins fished docks all day and found a 10.50lb limit wiling to eat their dropshotted worms and earn  second place.
 
Mike Tremont paired with first timer Nick Kolvalcin and tried to run to a spot down the San Joaquin. A few hundred yards of unbeleivable pounding was no way to treat a new member so they hooked a U turn and headed for a protected marina. They were presented with challenge #2, a broken T-motor cable.  Call it resourcefulness, or desperation, they tied up to docks and shimmied along offering dropshotted plastics wherever they could. !3.84lbs and first place was their reward. (What is it that Ike's always screaming?)
 
Rick Lloren hosted a guest Dennis Smith who took Big Fish honors with a swimbait toad that weighed a tidy 8.14lbs.
 
Next stop: a new venue, Rollins Lake in the foothills on May 14th.  See ya there.
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Club News: Bullard's Bar Brawl

Folsom Bass Team put twenty boats in the water on February 12th for the Bullard's Bar Brawl.  This was the first journey to this spotted bass lake which has been receiving a great deal attention. In reality, it wasn't  much of a fight as the winning team basically put a spanking on the rest of the armauda.  Third place was taken by Mike Bugliarello and John Harris, with John's 5.49 lber taking second big fish award.  They dragged worms very deep, and delberately, off red clay walls for a 11.20lb bag.  Mike Hara was joined by Blake Schnabel,  and tossed jigs also very deep.  They culled up a respectacle 14.82 limit for second place.  Brandon Holleran stuck Chris Sisto in the back of his boat and the duo went to work. Tubes fished in about sixty feet of water accounted for a spotted bass limit that likely will be a club record for some time.  Apparently, they each culled out limits that would have beaten all the other boats, with Chris pulling a 6.14 for big fish emphasis.  Their winning bag tipped out at 26.84lbs. That's all spots boys and girls! Did someone say spanked? Hat's off to ya.
 
We're heading up to Clear Lake next month for a pre-spawn party.
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Camanche Chiller - December 2010

Folsom Bass Team took on the Motherlode's Lake Camanche on December 5th.  Reports had been promising so hanging Christmas lights would have to wait ;  there were bass to be caught. The teams were decked out in raingear but were treated to bright skies and flat water for most of the morning until one heavy and dark cloudbank took the reins at about noon. The ensuing whitecaps made the main lake untouchable and most of the teams scrambled for the south bank and the river arm. The  raingear which had been shed earlier returned to use by the 3 o'clock weighin.
 
As teams assembled at the marina there was a mixed bag of reports.  Fish were moving and either you found them or you didn't, period. Jonathan Ashcraft made a guest appearance and coaxed a 4.12lb bigmouth to eat a wakebait on his third cast.  It turned out to be Big Fish of the contest. Welcome back Jonathan. TD Mike Tremont teamed with Treasurer Larry Baltezore and ran breaklines and points. They culled thru three limits of fish  caught on Larry's special jig and weighed 11.96lbs for third place.  Word has it that Don Stanley is renting a room from Mike Hara to secure their "random draw team". They paired for like the fifth time this year,  and again scored well. Their 11.76lb limit fell to darter head worms and jigs in relatively shallow water landing them in second place for the event.   Top honors went to Irv Schnell and Scott Hamman who worked the river arm. They were on fish most of the day, and culled up with a variety of jigs, worms and spoons and turned in a solid 12.96lb bag with a 3.69 kicker.  Good work guys.
 
2011 will have the FBT at Folsom Lake for the January event.  This could be a fun one with  some big fish to be weighed in. See ya there.         
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Berryessa Brawl - November 2010

Unseasonably warm climate accompanied a sizeable field of FBT competitors on November 14th for the first visit to spotted bass country,  Lake Berryessa. Mother nature clicked the fan into the "are you kidding" mode making anglers reconsider long main lake runs.
 
Indeed, those that took a chance with the wind were duelly rewarded.  Jay LeClerc and Chris Hughes ground out a 10.06lb  bag for third place.  Mike Hara pounded thru the waves with Kevin Kolbo to Mike's favorite spot at, uh, I can't tell.  Tossing jigs around produced an abundance of fish and they culled up to 11.12lbs and runnerup honors. Grabbing the first place prize was the impromptu team of Jeff Garmeson and Terry Arnold.  The thirty plus gusts and ensuing rollers took a toll on the winners craft to the tune of deploying the T-motor while on plane, trashing the brackett. Ahh- nothing a bit of braided line couldn't deal with.  They caught all their fish from one spot. Jeff was working reaction baits and little swimbaits on the pointy end and Terry slid his hula grub along off the back.  A few limits of fish sorted out to the winning weight of !2.53lbs.  Also, Beau Palley pulled a 3.34lb  off their first stop with a wake bait to take Big Fish of the event.  Congrats to all the teams.
 
December will bring the FBT to the motherlode and Lake Camanche.  This one could be  chilly.  
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October 17, 2010 Clear Lake

With anticipation of a great fall bite, the Folsom Bass  Team departed for a Sunday event at the famed Clear Lake.  October is known for multiple major fishing TOC’s and this month was no different, with the Triton Owners tournament hosting 120 boats the weekend before, and the US Anglers Choice TOC the same weekend as our event, with 140 boats.  However, the Dock Talk was that the bite was very tough at both events, with many boats entering blanks for these events on Day 1.

                The FBT event proved to be not much different.  We fielded 12 boats, blasting off on the first day of an incoming cold front, with early morning light rain and some wind.  Thankfully it seemed that some of the USAC boats did not fish the 2nd day and left more space for us.  Nevertheless, the “lock jaw” that harassed anglers of these other events proved to plague the club too.  No limits were brought to scale with the biggest bag being 3 fish, and 5 of 12 teams bringing in the goose egg.

                First place was taken by prior Angler of the Year Mike Hara and the new VP Chris Hughes, who weighed a bag of 2 fish for  9.24 lb.   Word was that they fished slow and deep in a rocky area.  In 2nd place was Jay LeClerc and Blake Schnabel with 3 fish for 8.93 lb.   Taking 3rd place was Joe Vogeli and Don Stanley with 8.73 lb.  Congratualtions!

                Next month is Berryessa, hoping the fall bite is on!!
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