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Welcome to Folsom Bass Team's Website
Congratulations to Mike Hara and Larry Baltezore for winning the Annual FBT Night Tournament at Amador Lake. Mike and Larry weighed in a solid 11.40lb limit of Largemouth! Mike Melvin captured the big fish for the tournament with a 3.88lb bucketmouth. The official results are posted under the Tournament Results section of the website.
Congratulations to Mike Hara, the 2008-2009 Folsom Bass Team Angler of the Year!
Our next event is our annual night tournament on Amador lake, Friday July 23rd. The 2009-2010 tournament dates are posted in the Tournament Schedule section of the website. Our next meeting is Wednesday July 7th, please join us if you can.
We are currently seeking new members.
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. 
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Pardee - May 20010
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Beautiful Lake Pardee was the May destination for the FBT. Shared water with a Sonora bass club as well as an armada of kokanee tournament anglers made it all the more interesting. Despite it all, Mother Nature dialed up a pleasant day to chase oversized brown bass and bedding largemouths.
The team of Ryan Habenicht and Mike Tremont sacrificed their sight fishing height advantage and settled in on one bank for one Spook eater and a slew of solid keepers that fell for drop shotted worms. Their bag of 15.84lbs took first place.
Justin VonSpreckelssn and Chris Hughes weighed in only three keepers but one was a 6.37 biggie that finally ate a soaking senko at thirty feet. Their 11.01 lb runner up bag may have been a bit bigger had Justin's red belly board been on the boat to measure a few smaller fish, oh well.
Beau Palley and Alan Anderson fished the river arm amongst some bigger rock piles with drop shotted worms. They weighed in 9.08 lbs for third place.
FBT will be heading to Lake Shasta for the yearly summer celebration in June, an unofficial event for fun and families to enjoy. Lake Amador will host the next event on a summer night in July.
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The Folsom Bass Team fielded sixteen teams to converge on the California Delta on a pleasantly warm day to chase a bite that been improving over the past weeks. An upcoming full moon cycle had been pulling willing fish up and anglers followed. A cheerful north wind kicked up on game-day just to make it interesting.
"Team Pink", Dustin Keen with Craig Laprath, fished one bank all day with cranks and senkos. Their 6.14 lb hog was big fish of the event.
Irv Schnell and Kevin Ward also fished one bank all day throwing cranks and senkos. As a matter of fact, they shared water with Team Pink. Hmm. Anyway, respective bags of 15.14lb and 15.60lbs earned third and second place. A nice cooperative guys.
Doc Lloren and newbie Alan Anderson hop scotched points from the north side through Disappointment offering worms, senkos and brush hogs for four keepers. At one stop, they turned into a slot to fish only to find a small line of boats, and left not knowing two of the boats were the above mentioned participants. Lucky guess as their next stop gave up a 5.9lb to seal the deal with a 16.94lb bag.
Next month it's back to the fine and fussy stuff for Lake Pardee. Oh yeah, did someone mention swimbaits?
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Ten teams from the FBT took the short jaunt to Clear Lake's Red Bud Marina on March 7th for their third tournament of the year. Previous events had produced heavy bags but Mother Nature had dropped a series of cold storms from the north leaving a bit of uncertainty for both bass and angler.
Of course, someone figured it out. Mike Hara and Chris Hughes worked a precise spot deliberately and meticulously. They found themselves culling 3+'ers fooled by creature baits in short order. Mike's regained confidence in a magic fishing hat kept their bite going well into the afternoon resulting in a winning 21.25 lb bag.
Kris Sisto scored his second consecutive silver medal, paired with Robert Butt working rockpiles all over the lake with senkos collecting a 16.70lb limit.
Craig Laprath and Troy Deguchi claimed third place with a 16.31lb bag.
JVS's 5. 71 largemouth was big fish of the day.
Next stop is back to the Delta on April 25th. All stages of the spawn will be represented and should provide some interesting stories.
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Club News: Berryessa Brawl - February 13th, 2010
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On February 13th fourteen FBT teams launched from Markley Marina after enjoying several days of seasonally comfy weather. Hopes of crossing paths with a biggie getting the jump on pre-spawn dining were cautiously muttered by a few and on the minds of many. The muddy water that many had experienced in the past weeks was clearing nicely prompting the appearance of some big baits on the decks.
Early season sunburns were apparent at the weigh in, testimony to mainly flat water and tough fishing. Ironically, FBT member at large Steve Eason showed up to fun fish by himself and didn't sign up for the event. Bad move. His solo effort gave him about 14 +change, with a real bragger of 7.5 something or other. Those who did register were limited to more yeoman type results.
Despite a major "Mercurial" setback, Mike Hara and Dick McHenry managed to dredge out
a 9.20 lb limit from deep structure with jigs and soft plastics. Props to Jonathan Ashcroft for giving Mikes third place bag a ride to the weigh in.
Rumor has it that Chris Sisto caged a limit in pre-fish, and dumped them in the well on gameday. Hmmm. He and co-angler Merle Drucker later stated that shaky head worms tricked a 10.44lb limit. Whatever. They were awarded a Silver medal for either effort.
Rick Lloren teamed with Rob Ridge and worked a series of secondary points on the main lake with jigs and worms and squeaked out the win with a 10.67lb bag.
Big Fish honors went to Gary Coffman with a 2.89lb spot.
The next venue will be Clear Lake on March seventh. Rising water and milder temps ought to bring out a few heavyweights for the playdate. See ya there, and remember, if you don't sign up, you can't win.
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Folsom Bass Team fielded ten boats to crawl thru the "three dot" fog to Comanche Lake for the first event of the new decade. The preceding weeks reported big bags being taken but an abrupt switch in the weather placed a question mark on exactly what the lake would cough up in the dense fog. Several other events shared the lake and all the nearby structure quickly had a boat or two posted on them after "blast-off".
When all was said and done, things had definitely toughened up, and the previous dock talk didn't produce. Only three limits showed up at the weigh-in and accounted for the medals. Mike Tremont, paired with Troy De Guchi ran structure coast to coast and managed a 9.35lb bag, for third place. All fish were taken drop-shotting. Jeff Garmeson visited his hotspots and found "vacancy" signs glowing. With an assist from Kim Adkins, a 9.58lb bag was dredged up from multiple deep structure sights. Rick Lloren and relative newbie, Merle Drucker snuck up on main lake points and humps in Merle's "wallie wonder". Jigs bumped on rocks proved to be the winner, weighing a bag of 15.66lbs. Their limit was punctuated with Merle's PR 5.86 bigmouth that looked like it had eaten a down rigger weight.
Next up, back to Berryessa on February 13th. Hopefully, Markley's main ramp will be available. See ya there.
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