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Sunday, July 12th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Jones and ran 4-5 miles up the Squaw Creek Arm. Trout were caught using down-rigger and trolling 40-50 feet deep using silver Sepps flashers with colorado blades and many different type silver lures. Cripple lures, kast-master and even home-made silver lures that my father makes (that are shaped simular to hum-dingers). Anything that simulate a small shad was working. Add Pro-Cure shad gel and I was getting hook-ups at a rate of 4 fish per hour. Most trout ranged at 14-15 inches with one topping 19". Additionally, two 16" salmon were caught with the same home made lures at approx 50 feet deep. Bite slowed as the water sport boats chopped up the lake although 2 fish per hour were still being caught into the afternoon. Most fish were in 135 feet or deeper channel and looked to be suspended at 40-60 feet. Even caught one fat spotted bass at 40 feet deep on the home made lure. Fish are hungry chasing the shad.

    Tips: Troll slow (2MPH) and don't forget the Pro-cure shad gel.

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Main Lake 13-15in. topwater real early,if they dont go right away go to dd crank,or carolina rigged floating rip-bait in a shad pattern seems to work best. clear earth tone plastics working too.shad or gray plastics too.Good Fishing To All.
    City: Redding

    Tips: if you go out about an hour earlier than you usually do,you can really take your time and just have fun.

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: stayed on main body and caugh 13-15 inch bass,plastics and jigs,after 9:00am. caught 3 good fish with carolina rigged floating rip bait,and 2 good fish on topwater.i probably should have thrown a spinnerbait more but i just didn't pick it up.1 little crank fish.i had 10lbs and change. 469,
    City: Redding

    Tips: i am trying different parts of the lake each day i go out,not the greatist stratagy but seeing alot of water.
    good fishing to all

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: catching alot of 13-14 inch fish.flukes and plastics imatating shad in the shade areas after the sun is up on the water,they seem to congragate till the sun is totally on the water,then they seem to go to deeper water.dont forget buzzbaits as it seems to get that reaction when they ball up.you will get a good fish once in a while doing this.
    City: Redding

    Tips: go to running water . at top of tributaries as that is where there is enough oxygen for the bait.

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 75-76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing was a little slow for the bass, nothing of any real size, one two pounder. Water temperature very warm in the coves, even near the dam water temp was around 73.
    City: Lake Shasta

Friday, June 5th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Man, took two buddies out foe some fun fishing today. Rained the whole day, but not real cold, and no wind to speak of. Slammed the spots all day. In 5 hours we boated at least 60 fish. Dark colored jigs,senkos, and tubes. The fish were shallow, and were still on the spawing stuff. (gravel and small rock.) All were post spawn, but fun to catch. We were fish the Squaw arm.
    City: Redding

    Tips: If you can't catch fish now you might as well take up another sport.

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 67....with wide

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: May 19th thru may 22,2009
    Mcloud arm, camping at ellery creek. Active bite for small 6-12" spotted bass in less than 15' of water. roostertails and spinnerbaits worked best. tried senko's and failed. I couldn't find anything larger. FIshed from the inlet of the mcloud arm and fished as far as Hirtz bay. Saw rainbows above ellery creek, but they wouldn't bite on lure or bait or trolling. decided to avoid the pit arm, save it for another day.
    City: Atwater

    Tips: try the pitt.

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Up the Pit for a week. Hundreds of clones in 15 feet of water.One nice largemounth 6.5lbs.off the bank, the other larger spots all came off the trees with senkos and spinbaits some 3-4lbs. the spawn was going on big time.One night spooks were the ticket.A good time was had by all. Oh just anote for all of the rude skiers KISS MY A...
    City: Lakeview Ore.

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 67-75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 4 days on houseboat trip. All fish from 0-20 feet. Most consistant bite for better fish was 15-20 feet. Easy 50-70 fish days on plastics. Got a few ripping, but most were on plastics. The Sacramento arm was the warmest 72-75. McCloud and main body 67-70. Majority of fish were 13-14 inches. Caught a few 2 1/2 to 3 lbs.

Monday, April 27th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 53 degrees

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I fished Shasta three weeks ago,fishing was great up the pit arm (thanks Jerry for the last up-date.)
    Has the water cleared up at all? I'll be back down for a week on 5/11.The water color sure dictated the lure color.Should I stock up on dark colored patterns? Thanks Si.
    City: lakeview oregon

    Tips: Three weeks ago was the first time big black spinnerbaits worked, also black 6 inch senkos riged wacky. The rubber produced several nice 3lb. spots.

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took my brother-in-law up for the weekend. Had a blast. Caught lots of decent fish. Best came on rocky steep banks. Biggest went 3.5lb, lots of 1.5 to 2.
    Most on Shad Fluke, couple on watermelon jigs and rest on crankbaits.
    City: Fernley,Nv

    Tips: The past few weekends have been pretty windy. You have to be well practiced with the trolling motor.
    Working baits slow has been the best for us.

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    Water Temp: 59-63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went to shasta on sat. fished afternoon into the dark of night, caught alot of fish..many on the xrap jerkbait as well as rattle trap and right at dusk a zara spook, which was a blast..my first topwater action of the year..a bunch of fish blew up on it and just plain missed, but I caught a bunch on it as well, the biggest fish came on the xrap, fished after dark til around midnight using big spinners and brush hogs, nothing on the spinnerbaits and only one on the brush hog with quite a few missed hits
    City: medford

    Tips: water is quite a bit clearer than a few weeks ago when i went down. also noticed that the in flow is less than the outflow and the lake has started to drop a bit. The xraps produced some quality fish on steep chunk rock banks and points with timber out on the ends, also the windblown side of points always produced

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    Water Temp: 58-63

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished a Forest Service tournament on Saturday & Sunday. Fishing was tough and the only fished taht seemed to be hanging out in the shallows wer very small and the bite was sporadic. Tried lots of crankbaits, spinnerbaits, and swim baits with a few bites on frst day. Marked a lot of fish deeper on Sunday and tried plastics and wacky worms with a few bites but still very slow bite. Wind gusts were up to 40 mph in the morning and made thins very difficult for finesse fishing.
    City: Portola, CA

    Tips: Points seemed to yield the most bits and we kept hearing to try fishing deeper, 25-50 feet of water.

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: RENSHAW'S back. throw those half pound dinks in the drink. Trolled the main body with shad imitations for a potluck of decent trout and a four pound king.
    City: newark

    Tips: fish like you mean it. Change things up. Ive had my fill of sturgeon. that's why i fished this lake. Hallibut soon.

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 51 to 56

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: FISHED THE LAKE FRIDAY TO SUNDAY, FRIDAY STARTED OFF IN PACKERS WITH SOME TRAPPS FIRST THING AND COUGHT A FEW SMALL FISH SWITHCHED TO TUBES AND BEAVERS AND GOT A FEW MORE MOSTLY NEAR POINTS.
    MOVED TO O-BRIAN AND CONTINUED WITH TUBES AND BEAVERS AND SOME RIP BAITS FISH MOSTLY ON N.W. BANKS AND POINTS, FROM WE WENT TO SALT CREEK TO FIND VERY CLEAR WATER BUT NOT A LOT OF ACTION, FINISHED OFF THE DAY IN THE GOOSE NECK WITH A FEW MORE FISH FOR A TOTAL OF 35 TO 40 FISH BETWEEN 7AM AND 4 PM IT WAS VERY WINDY MOST OF THE DAY.
    FISHED ON SATURDAY ALL OVER THE SQUAW WITH SOME MODERATE RESULTS MOSTLY SMALL FISH ON TRAPPS, HULA GRUBBS, SMALLIE BEAVERS, AND TUBES, WENT TO THE PIT TO FIND THE FISH MORE COOPERATIVE MOSTLY IN THE AFTERNOON WITH SOME FISH UP TO 3 LBS. ALL THE FISH IN THE PIT WERE COUGHT ON MUD PIE TUBES.
    TOTAL FOR THE DAY AROUND 25 FISH WITH TWO OF THEM AT 3 LBS AND 5 AT 2 LBS PLUS. JUST LIKE FRIDAY IT WAS VERY WINDY ALL DAY.
    FISHED ON SUNDAY FROM 7 AM TILL NOON IN THE MC CLOUD, THERE WAS ONLY A SMALL BREEZE MOST OF THE MORNING, THE FISHING WAS VERY SLOW UNTIL ABOUT 9 AM THEN THE BITE GOT A LOT BETTER AND THE FISH STARTED BITING VERY SHALLOW ON ALL THE N.W. FACING BANKS IN THE OPENING OF ALL THE SMALLER CUTS AND COVES, TOTAL FOR THE DAY 20 FISH BUT NOTHING OVER 2 LBS.

Monday, March 30th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished this past Saturday and Sunday. Saturday we fished the main body and the Pitt. We caught 15 fish, all but one were on Senko's. Only was was of any size. Lots of drift, the water is very milky everywhere and quite abit of wind. Sunday we fished the Sac arm. Water was not quite as stained at Salt Creek. We caught 13 fish. Again only one of any size and all were on Senko,s. The wind was blowing!! At times we were doing 14 mph down the shoreline. We did see occasional large concentrations of fish at 50 to 80 feet and they were suspended??
    City: Rough and Ready

    Tips: Senko's seem to be the only thing they would bite? Only one fish on minnows. We tried spinnerbaits, dart headed worms, beavers and several other things to no avail. The wind played a major part on what we could do or not do.

Friday, March 27th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: fished friday evening and all day sat. on pitt arm..rattle traps at dusk across points scored everytime..fished some plastics on deep water humps and got some but they were smaller, saturday the rapala xrap rip bite was excellent, the fish were much better size than on plastics at one point I got three fish on three casts that were 2lbs on the dot. Wind was blowin pretty hard but I was letting it blow me along and was fishin very quick, also I was the only one in the boat..probably caught 25 to 30 on saturday
    City: medford

    Tips: Bigger fish are on xraps and rattle traps, across just about every point was money

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: actually the concrete ramp is in and has been for ten days, centimudi is a mess and unusable with 200 yards of debris, Packers is the best right now
    City: redding

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I'm heading down to shasta next week. Can you use the jones valley ramp yet? Also should I stay in the main lake or head up one of the arms?Sure would like a responce from someone. Thanks!!
    City: lakeview oregon

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 47-53

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing was terrible
    City: Redding

    Tips: just try and find them. since i think the water came up to fast