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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 56?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: We went out Wednesday Morning, 9am until noon and caught 7 Trout keepers, 15" - 17", in 11" to 17" deep. Used mostly Blue and Silver Cast Master. Threw back several 11" to 13" ones. We fished Sqauw..the wind picked up so we left at noon..
    City: Bella Vista

    Tips: Trout hitting on Blue and Silver Lures and are in shallow water.

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished for week out of jones valley up the pit. It took a day to figure out the bite. 4" green wennies, sencos.3rd bounce into 25ft. 3/16 weight almost all fish came on the fall. with to much weight the bait fell to fast. white spinbaits at dark. largest fish #3.5 30- 40 fish days lots of clones. Good time had by all.
    City: Lakeview Ore.

    Tips: use 3/16 weight or less. watch your line!! alittle more heat and the fish should be right on the bank

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    Water Temp: 56-58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: launched at packers bay, fished coves just off the main lake and a few islands. caught 23 fish in 9 hours mostly on senkos 3 and 5 inch in 25 to 35 feet of water. Most fish where 11 inch or smaller...got 4 smallies rest where spots. one 13 inch smallmouth and biggest spot was 15 inches! Fish bit all day but hard to get a hookset sometimes!
    City: klamath falls

    Tips: use green and set the hook quick...if they feel ya its too late..fish drop the bait!

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished pit river arm using 4" watermelon senko caught about 15 decent bass on them. Also caught several letting the wind drift the boat pulling a suspeneding jerk bait along the bank. the biggest came from the jerk bait.
    City: shasta lake

    Tips: flash minnow color suspending jerk bait along banks.

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the wind burned fishermens point for 4 hours busted off about 20$ in tackle and caught 2 6" BASS. All in all it was dormant as a dead doornail so i walked away so fast my shoes smoked.
    City: Shasta Lake

    Tips: call a cement truck to fill the place to the top!!!!

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: hooray for shasta Rec, they put the other float in at Bailey Cove this am, now plenty of room to tie up and you don't have to manuever around it in the parking lot. fishing gettin better also, throw senkos in the trees in coves.
    City: Anderson

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

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    Water Temp: you tell me?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Heading down next week for five days on a house boat out of silverthorn. Will be fishing for bass/spots. Haven't seen much on here on the fishing this year normally lots of reports by now. We normally fish up the pit and do pretty well. We very rarely hook up with any large fish though. We went 2 yrs ago when it was 111 in the second week of may. Doesn't look like we'll be hot this year.

    Just curious if any of the fish have moved into the coves yet, not that I mind fishing for them in the secondaries and main points.

    Any fish on spinner baits or x-raps?
    City: Cottage Grove OR

    Tips: Thanks for any input....

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 54 to 59

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Josh
    We too fished a small (40 boat) tournament. Your advice about the green tree was smack on. Over 3 days we caught 100 fish, 80% all 13 inches 1

    Tips: Catch one the rest get excited then anything works.

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: We got some nice Trout 17" to 19" today with Cast Master Lures - Gold. We were fishing 13 ft to 18 ft of water. We were at the mouth of the McCloud; West Bank, up from the Bridge.
    First trip out in a long time and had so much fun. The lake is finally full!!
    City: Bella Vista

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Almost forgot to add, if you are up at Lake Shasta make sure you make a stop at the basshole...good times, nice people and great food. Check out the link.

    http://bassholebarandgrill.com/
    City: Sacto

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Almost forgot to add, if you are up at Lake Shasta make sure you make a stop at the basshole...good times, nice people and great food. Check out the link.

    http://bassholebarandgrill.com/
    City: Sacto

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    Water Temp: ~50

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I just finished fishing the A/C pro / am and the WCB pro/am. I took 13th and 25th. Almost all my fish came on a 4" senko wacky rigged on a gamakatsu extra wide gap finesse hooks on 6-lb. flourocarbon. The key to getting the senko down to the 20-25 foot depth needed was pegging it in the center with a nail weight, and riggin it wacky style with a latex rubber band. Pro-cure added also made a significant difference and I would suggest using it. Most of my fish came fishing the stump infested canyons in the pit river, some of the canyons held bigger fish than others. The key was casting the senko 20' off the shore and let it sit, for as long as 45 seconds, twitch a couple times and cast again. Make sure to watch your line and use it as a bite indicator. I did catch a few key fish on a osprey line through swimbait during the A/C tournament, but those larger females were spawning by the time of the WCB tournament, so the swimbait bite was off, by which I did not realize until after throwing it all the first day of the WCB tournament.
    City: Sacto

    Tips: Pit river

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    Water Temp: 58-62 degree su

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fish a friendly tourney this weekend 24th to 25th. Bite is slow but getting better. Caught 15 to 20 fish each day. Had to throw back lots of 10 to 11 inchers. Big fish weighed 3.37 lbs. fished isolated trees in coves. green worm worked best. other guys caught fish on white spinners and cranks in the wind and early morning. no much size to them.
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: If i could do it all over again i would fish ever light green tree in every cove.

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: better in the afternoon spinnerbugs #1 deal greenshad or chart and white booyah in the trees bushehes or iso floatin wood sawsome activity spots eatin frogs soon as the frog jumps in two turns of the handle fish on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    City: redding

    Tips: we were fishing backs of pockets with iso trees fish were all makin right hand turns

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 51-56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 4 days 4-14,15,16,17, started in the Pit and Squaw. Water Temps in the Low 50's and weather was wild, Bite very tough on 14th,15th, Caught fish on Darter heads 25-35 ft. Oxblood and 082. Moved to the McCloud for the 16,17th, weather cleared and water started to warm, The fish would move up in the early afternoons and the bite was "on" primary and secondary points 5-20 ft, probably 30+ fish in the last 3 hrs of light.Am bite was still tough. Saw good fish cruising the fresh water but not interested. Caught fish down to 50+ft when we were searching.

    Tips: Typical Shasta Crawl presentation, slow slow.

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: great customer service shasta recreation, the other float still isn't in at Bailey cove, no wonder people aren't paying the fees/buying passes, not enforced and wonderful service
    City: Anderson

    Tips: don't buy a yearly pass or pay the eight bucks, ain't nothing going to happen if you don't

Monday, April 12th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 49-54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: From 4/5 to 4/9. Weather still has the water cold. The fish I found were is 25ft. Stayed in the Sac arm all week to conserve fuel. Warmest water was in around Little Sugarloaf Creek arm. Best results was small plastics (<4"). Fish are not aggresive, all pressure bites.
    City: San Ramon

    Tips: Find the warmest water. Fish very slow.

Friday, April 9th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 49.0

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Jones Valley. Lake was hit with a strong north wind so we headed for a south facing cove not far from boat ramp. Found fish at about 25 feet on the finder. Dropped minnows to bottom with slip bobber. Within 2 minutes, wife had 2 - 12" black crappie in the boat. Next two hours before sundown, we caught 12 black and white crappie and had lots of fun doing so. Talk about goood eating!
    City: Cottonwood

    Tips: Take the family fishing, they will love you for it!

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: hey Shasta recreation, how about putting the other section of dock in at Bailey cove, get it out of the parking lot and in the water where it belongs, things get busy early and late
    City: shasta lake city

Monday, March 29th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 51-56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Two of us fished the past Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday we fished the main body points and coves. Caught 37 total fish. Nine were on senko's or worms, one on a spinnerbait and the rest were on drifting live minnows. Largest fish was close to 3lbs. Fairly windy most of the day. Saw lots and lots of boats that day and learned that night that alot of the boats are prefishing for the upcoming WON tournament this coming weekend. On Sunday we fished the Sac arm. Caught 41 total fish. Again 10 were on senko's or worms and the rest on the live minnows. saw lots of fish suspended in 50 to 60 feet of water, but they were not feeding. Most of the ones feeding were in 25 to 35 feet of water. Afew were close to shore, but not many.
    City: Rough and Ready