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Saturday, March 27th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: camped friday and sat. set up on friday evening got on the water just before dark, did real well with jerkbait lots of 1.5's after dark did well with spinnerbait and brush hogs, got a 4lb 4oz largemouth and many other 1.5 spots, sat was opposite, lost 2 fish in the AM then nada all day...til right before dark,then the bite was on again, got a 6lb 3oz largemouth after dark on brush hog...guess I can only catch fish at night
    City: medford

    Tips: wait til evening

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Yes, the jones valley ramp is open. However, it is not the primary launch, you have to drive out just a ways on a dirt road to a secondary ramp.
    City: Redding

    Tips: The fish are coming up and they are coming up quick. Try any water around where running water is coming into the lake and in smaller coves. Senkos have been killing them. Also caught a few on jerkbaits. Good Luck man.

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished FriDay 4 bass by noon then 18 Bass by 4 Got a 3.0 lb bass on a green grub. let her go so some other guy might enjoy seeing a fish that big on the end of his line.

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Sun-mon did ok caught 13 sun and 10 mon. Was hoping to get on the spawners, didnt work so well.
    City: Kfalls

    Tips: Darter heads seem to work the best. Fished points and some coves. Good luck

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished after work up the pit and got 13 fish in 2 hours. Fished last sat. caught 30 by noon then Sunday caught 21 but had to fish all day Dang it !
    City: Anderson

    Tips: Lots of Big Hens headed to spawn. Also heard its once again legal to fish right next to the dam. If thats true Look out Salmon !

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: This is actually a report on what's legal in Shasta. The salmon there are Chinook and it is legal to keep 5. There are not any Coho in Shasta.
    City: red bluff

Friday, March 12th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 48-52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: lot of rain and wind,, lots of spots in two days (8 hours total), only 1 smallmouth,, 25-40 feet,secondary points and adjacent coves, 4" and 6" plastic worms
    City: lassen

    Tips: slow and slower presentation

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Caught 30 bass in 3 hours Minnows and hula grubs all keeper size. Better get up there and enjoy the lake and the great fishing

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I went out of Centimudi on Sunday the 28th and it was clear and in good shape.
    City: Redding

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Any news on Trinity ramps ?

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: all ramps are in, centimudi ramp is unusable due to all the wood stacked up way out past the end of the ramp
    City: shasta lake

Monday, March 1st, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: All ramps are in I think. Fished Sunday 9 to 4 caught 25 total. Minnows on bottom and bobbers and brown gitzits worked good too. Had fish tacos that night. Morning bite was best.
    City: Anderson

    Tips: I saw a flyer at DFG that said after Mar 10 its no longer needed to wear your licence in plain sight.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: What ramps are open
    City: Coast

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

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    Water Temp: Dunno

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Saturday out of JV caught one on crankbait on a windblown point about 15 incher, but FAT. Boated a limit by the end of the day, lost 5 plus and had 10 or more short strike fish all on worms. Took my 5 year old with us this time he had a blast reeling in my fish. Take a kid fishing.
    City: Red Bluff

    Tips: 3/16 ounce lead head, I used MGM worms in brownish colors, Shake for long time. Sexy Shad crankbait caught the active fish.

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 49.8

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: In my last post (one under this one), I indicated that I had caught a few Coho (silver salmon) this weekend. Now after speaking with locals and other anglers, they were probably small King Salmon and not Silvers. I guess I mis-identified my catch. The DFG Regs say you can't keep ANY Sinver Salmon in the state of Calif unless there were caught in Lake Oroville. I guess I was gun-shy and didn't want a DFG violation.
    I missed out on a good salmon dinner I guess.
    City: Cottonwood

Monday, February 15th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 49.8

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Trolled Jones Valley area Monday morning and caught two 17" trout first light at about 10' of water (150 feet behind boat) using a Seps flasher (silver willow blades/red beads) and a silver/blue hum-dinger. Dropped deeper to about 30 feet of water and caught two silver salmon using a home-made silver willow leaf flasher with yellow beads and a gold Kastmaster (released them of course due to new regs). Switched to a colarado leaf gold and silver Seps flasher using a home-made shad looking silver lure and stayed at 30 feet of water working the edges of the lake. Caught a few FAT 18" largemouths gourged with minnows. Looks like almost anything resembling a shad minnow will do the trick. Water is cold and trout/salmon are running shallow to feed on shad. Bass seem to be hanging 30-40 feet also feeding on shad.
    City: Cottonwood

    Tips: Troll or throw silver shad immitation lures. Don't forget the Shad-Gel adding a nice scent to your presentation and of course... release all Coho (Silver) salmon.

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    Water Temp: 47-49

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Just got back from two days on Shasta. The two of us fished the Sac arm on Saturday and caught 12 fish. Two biggest were 17 and 18 inches. Two were on artificial (spinner bait)and the rest on live minnows. We fished the main body on Sunday and caught a total of 35 fish. Largest was 16 inches. Six were on artificial (one senko, 5 on shaky worm)and the rest live minnows. We tried senkos, beavers, spinnerbaits and yuki bug, they just seemed to want live minnows!!
    City: Rough and Ready

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Sunday afternoon with my buddy and his wife and my son. It rained the entire afternoon. We put the top up and wind drifted minnows and ended up catching 25 bass total. Also caught one crappie.
    City: Anderson

    Tips: Ya wont feel the bit from the couch with a remote in your hand. Take your family fishing make some memories and then make some fish tacos !

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took my wife out Sat. afternoon. She caught 7 bass on minnows best fish 16in.

    Tips: Dont forget your wifes coat. If YOU forget HER coat shes gonna blame you and then your gonna have to let her wear yours.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished yesterday afternoon up the pit with minnows and did real well. Sure are a lot of nice bass in the lake. Think we caught 19 in 2 hours. Takeing the wife out today.
    City: Anderson

    Tips: Very sluggied bite. Wind drift worded well about 25 ft.deep