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Tuesday, Apr 16
Hi: 50 ° F
Lo: 31 ° F
Today
Partly Sunny
Precip: 2%
Tonight
Mostly Clear
Precip: 2%

Thursday, January 4th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 46

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went out yesterday, rom 9pm to 3pm. calm water, nice sunshine and blue sky. Was really nice out. Could not locateand spoon any smallmouth, but those pesky german brownswere un anyway. Also caught two small salmon, that struckthe spoons. Horizon/chrome have un..
    City: Susanville

Saturday, August 5th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Regarding Almanor and the post rom Sunnyvale. Travel a little arther and hit Eagle Lake, ishing is good right now with slip bobbers and/or trolling needleish. Check with the Marina or more inormation. BS
    City: Susanville

Saturday, July 22nd, 2000

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    Water Temp: suprisingly war

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Four o us ished rom 6:00am till just ater 8:00pm. I hooked one ish @ 6:30am but lost it. Seemed airly large but never saw it. We were ishing near the boat ramp by the dam. Hooked mine on an inlated crawler. We were also using power bait,salmon eggs and marshmellows. Ater 4 hours with one ish we went to eat at the Kopper Kettle in Chester, great ood-highlite o the trip, and then rented a boat trolled till around 6 with no bites but didn't have downriggers or leadcore so...then still ished mouth o Hamilton Branch till we turned in the boat. Never saw a single ish caught all day. I have been ishing over orty years and almost every Fri. or the last ive. This was the worst ishing trip I've had in years catch wise. Do not believe the reports o this being a premiere ishing destination. And i you check you'll notice the reports rom the Sports Nut are always the same. This is a beautiul area but the ishing sucks.
    City: Sunnyvale

    Tips: Plan on hiring a guide i you do go to Almanor aparently some garaunty a ish or your money back.

Sunday, May 7th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 51-53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ished Almanor today, with the Inter-Mt. tournament. It wasa air to decent day, not a lot o wind, but overcast/wetishing was slower, but ish were caught. The group o about19 boats had a good ish day. 14plus or irst, 14plus orsecond, 11plus or third. Big ish 4.23 not bad overall.Most were caught on rip baits. some on plastic. Hard to seebedded ish, water murky, due to wind or past ew days. Rip, rip again... BC
    City: susanville

    Tips: dress or wind and rain/snow. rip rapalas, etc.

Thursday, May 4th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hi its Bassnbob again. Me my wie and my boys,Robie 9 and Michael 7 were at Lake Almanor between April 23rd and may 1st. We did a little ishing about every other day. We caught some nice Browns 1-3 pounds and a ew smallmouth about 1-2 pounds. Weather was good or most o the time.
    City: antioch

    Tips: We ished mainly with Kastmasters blue/silver and gold. Sonic rooster tails yellow or white,rattle traps shad color and watermelon and rootbeer colored plastics.

Wednesday, April 26th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 50-53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: ished 4-22-00, windy,windy and cool. However the waves andweather did not stop about 22 boats rom ishing. All caughtish, except one boat. Mostly Ripping, ripping, ripping.Fish all over the lake, mostly north end. Should pick upwith warmer weather. 4-6/7-00 Reno and Burney have tournaments. Go ish. BC
    City: Susanville

    Tips: Rip, Rip, Rip.

Saturday, April 8th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 51-57

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I ished today with Fishing Russ L. Boy, it started out great. I hook a 2.5 Smallie, Russ got a 3.14, then I landed Anothernice Brown. We moved onto the penninsula, Russ lost a bigTrout and 17 bucks in that ones mouth. We move to the west shore I hook 2 Smallies Back to back weighing 3.3 and 3.0.We move around looking or more ish,not inding any to biteour Rebels,Rogues, and Traps. Old ishing Snook, was on the lakeagain, just like always he had a boat load. My experienceyou need to cover lost o water and RIP,RIP, RIP, tell your Arm is ready to all OFF!! Hoot
    City: Susanville

    Tips: Rogue,Rebels,Rapula,Rattle Traps are my avorite this time oyear. You need to ish hard and have some patience. Just remember the our "R'S" and Rip,Rip,Rip!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday, December 5th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The water is still looking good up here. Went ishing with my two sons,they are 7 and 8. The boys used some rainbow powerbait and caught some nice trout. I on the other hand i'm a bass isherman. I went ater some smallmouth and caught 2 nice ones,about 2 lbs each.
    City: ANTIOCH

    Tips: It appears powerbait and worms are working well in the rec 1 and 2 areas as well as Hamilton Branch area and near the powerhouse also. For smallmouth I used 4 inch saltnpepper worm texas rigged.

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    Water Temp: ??

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Is the lake still frozen??
    City: Chico, CA

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: And it ain't YOUR fishery...
    City: Almanor

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    Water Temp: 70+

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Just came back from Almanor. Caught SM bass drifting crickets with a small split shot in 12-25

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Report: I am sorry this is not a report, but I am fishing Almanor this weekend, and was wondering if anyone knows how the bass bite is. I catch and release, so I will not hurt any of the fish. I just hope that there not on beds. Any help that anyone can give me will be appreciated!
    City: Redding

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: anyone been fishing this lake recently?

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: anybody been fishin' this lake?

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Wed/Thurs or smallmouth. Caught all emales, all avg 2 lbs on crayish crankbait. Caught small ones on beetle spins. Water choppy but very clear. Fish hanging in 8-10' drop os in rocky area. Dock reports salmon by the dam at 70' jigging worms.
    City: SSF

    Tips: Caught ish rom shore but had to ind drop os and ish hitting on crayish color cranks.

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    Water Temp: 46

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The cold weather has put a damper on the bite the water temp has dropped 10 degrees this past week. We ished Sunday with only three bites all day the ish have moved back out to there winter grounds waiting or things to warm back up. It will be a tough bite until that happens.
    City: chester

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    Water Temp: 72-73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had a great week at the lake, but the ishing was very poor. Went out every morning around 6:30- 9:00.I threw literally everything with very little success.Probably threw twenty dierent plastic baits on darterheads and split-shot rigs and never hooked up.Tried Senkos,Ricos,crankbaits,jerkbaits,spinnerbaits with no success.The only ish I caught were on a 1/8 oz jig w/ yamamoto 4'' double-tail grub. One three pound Smallie and a two and a hal pound same.I believe the ish are gorging on the pond smelt, they are everywhere you look and must be easy- pickens because the ish were deinetely not hungry.
    City: Granite Bay Ca.

    Tips: Try the evening trout ishing on the West bank.The hex are still hatching and we caught 3 lb trout on split shot crickets without spending much time trying.All decent size rainbows.

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Our annual trip to this beautiul lake was nothing like it was last year and you just can't do anything except enjoy the beautiul area when you ain't doing much catching. We ished in rain, sleet, snow and wind all week until Thursday when it started to warm up and those big, at emales were inally moving back to the beds. Spinner baits were the ticket until Thursday and then Senkos were back to their normal action. Averaged 3 ish a day but they were all big beauties and now with the weather changing, I'm sure you'll see some huge weights brouht in this weekend at the tournament.
    City: Wheatland

    Tips: Throwing white blades in and around whatever stumps we could see. When the weather warmed and the emales started to bed, white Senkos (4" with a small weight) made all the dierence. You must ind the stumps and they were there. I must have seen 50 bass on Thursday just roaming around looking or a place to call home. Only wish I had gone this week instead o last week. Work slowly and you'll have a successul trip.

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing picking up. This is a reminder, Great Basin Bassclub out o Reno, NV has a open at the dam on the 4th oMay. Should be a good ish day, I am sure they would liketo see you come out. $100.00 sign-up ee.
    City: susanville

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: This is Janet. My irst time on Almanor. We started ishingWed. and caught several nice smallmouth including a 3.6lb.eruseing 6 inch morning dawn worms. Thur. and Fri. were lotso un too. we caught a lot o sight ish up at the northend useing worms and a chart. Duh!!! jig with a black/chart.claw trailer. Then on Sat. we went all the way up to the causeway were Rick caught a 3 3/4 lb. largemouth but thenI caught a 6lb. largemouth and took the smile o his ace.I also caught a 3lb. rainbow while we were sight ishing orbass. I love this lake,and I caught the biggest ish !!!
    City: Sac.