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Monday, October 16th, 2006

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    Water Temp: didn't check

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught some nice Browns (3.5 & 4.7)and Rainbows (2.6 & 3.1) trolling this past weekend. Using shad imitation lures, the ones you can't buy anymore from Storm. Used them before and had great results, they didn't forget them. Color selection is required as the day light changes, color selector helps.
    City: Oakhurst

    Tips: Keep trying and best times are early and late, depth doesn't seem to be important as much now

Friday, October 13th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 68-70

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: 1/8 Frog hair, we tied our own on dart heads, used junior pork and when John Coyle was cuttin pork he'd make us some. Today was still a little tough had two arond 2lbs. all the rest were clone 13" limos. Chased shad and caught one just under them on the fall. Weather changing bite should improve. Butcher out
    City: Reddin

    Tips: Hey Truth...stick around and share some of your experiences. Not many have your experience, share it.

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 60-65

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Butcher Is Right on with his report of its tough fishing last couple a days...
    small fish..barely a legal limit @ 7.3 lbs
    Fished Shasta for past 20 yrs...
    retired tornament fisherman just fishing for fun last three days..
    Spoon up to 50 ft..
    ""FROG HAIR jig"" brown on brown up to 35 ft.
    City: Redding

    Tips: Vertical spoon after 9:00 am rest of day.

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 67-70

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: It's tough fishing out there period. Some of these other reports make it sound like it's wide open, well it ain't. The fish are small except for an occasional 14-15 incher. The high pressure flat squashed the bite. It will come back but everyone I talked with on the water said it was tough.
    City: Reddin

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Everybody Is On The Early Topwater.then Deep For Jigging Or Chasing Shad Balls In The Narrows.Good Fish On Walls In Upper/Sac With 3/4oz. Brown Hair Jigs 45ft and a little deeper if no wind.Good Blade Bite But Fish Are Small.
    City: Redding

    Tips: fish allday and have fun.

Monday, October 9th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: visiting a friend,great lake.stayed on steep struture with brown/brown jig.best fish each day on Rainbow Spook.good Fishing To All.
    City: redding

    Tips: Steep Walls.

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I STARTED FISHING THE MOUTH OF THE SQUAW ARM AND PICK UP SOME KEEPERS ON SOME UNDER WATER HUMPS OUT THERE. NOTHING TOURMENT QUALITY. MY PARTNER BEING MY WIFE WAS TEXAS RIGGING,HER FISH ANDI WAS DROP SHOTTING MINE. WE WERE FISHING IN 25 TO 35 FEET OF WATER.STARTED SEEING SOME SURFACE ACTION ON FISH CHASING SHAD. WE BOTH WENT TO OUR SPOONING RODS, STARTED RIPPINLIPS. THATS A FUN WAY OF STICKIN FISH IF YOU HAVE NEVER DONE IT. WE LEFT WENT UP TO SKI ISLAND AND SPOONED SOME MORE, AND THE WIFE OUT FISHED ME WITH THE SPOON.SHE GOT A COUPLE OF NICE SPOTS IN THE BACK SEAT.I DID STICK A HUGE TROUT WITH A HOPKINS SPOON WHICH WAS A LITTLE EXCITING IF UN YOU LIKE TROUT.ALL IN ALL IT WAS ANOTHER GREAT DAY ON SHASTA. GOOD FISHING TO YOU ALL
    City: ANDERSON

    Tips: THE PLASTICS WE WERE USING WERE 4 INCH WORMS WHICH I WILL KEEP THE BRAND NAME OFF THE REPORT. THE COLORS WERE PUMPKIN GREEN, PLAIN GREEN WEENIE.ANYTHING THATS RED WITH SOME BLUE IN IT.THE SPOONS WERE HOPKINS HAMMERED CROME.

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 68-70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Pitt arm on Wed. afternoon from about 11 till 5pm. Started around the 5mph zone and worked back out. Boated 45 to 50 spots and 1 small mouth, all on Roboworms and 1/8 oz dartheads. Caught them on 7 different colors from Warmouth to Oxblood to MM. Tried brushhogs, cranks, spoons no takers. Only 7 fish over 13", best 5 went 7-9.
    City: Roseville

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 61 to 65

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fish mouth of tributaries,caught over 50 fish spooning,3.72 spot on rainbow spook early,around 11lbs for best 5,2 nice keepers on Skitterpops.
    City: redding

    Tips: use skitterpops and don't stop them. big fish coming up from deep water.

Monday, September 25th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 61-65

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Larger Keepers Are Still At Mouths Or Tributaries but with cooler weather they should head to ends or backs of coves.Spoons Still Dominate For Numbers Of Fish If You Throw Plastics I would go Deep Or Dropshot For quality keepers. the larger fish are still eating crawdads so baseball to basketball size rock on sac arm and McCloud Arm Are Real Quality,I Caught Fish All Hours Of The Day So Just Go Out And Have A Great Day,Have Fun And Hang On.
    City: redding

    Tips: Do Not Let Anyones Bad Day,Affect Your Day,Be Happy You Will Notice How Much Better Fishing Really Can Be. GOOD FISHING,YOU AND I

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished main lake points and small coves had the strangest thing happen throwing 6" Robo worm get bit set the hook feels like A decent fish then all of A sudden fish just takes off thought I had A monster fish until it started running for shallow water instead of deeper. Wouldn't you know it an otter had grabbed the bass and was not going to give it up. Finally let the fish go so I threw the fish back right away and he came back and hammerd it again coolest thing I have had happen since A sealion tried to take A salmon that I had on.Caught A lot of fish but still looking for the quality fish.
    City: Sac

Monday, August 28th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 77

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished all the way up the pit in the tempture chage lots of fish on spoons. Ripped a nice 3lber with a bone colored rip bait. bite realy turn on when they realase water from the last pit dam. Just throw any fast moving bait. That bite only lasted about 45 minitues. Then dead after that.
    City: Redding

    Tips: Spoon in the shad they rip. get off the lake by noon bite dead after that.

    Good lucky

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 77

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Main Lake points and Pit arm lots of fish just no size.Used dart headed,Texas rig,drop shot,and Carolina rigged worms.Caught A few on crank bait.
    City: Sac

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Mr. Lewis I would like to talk to you regarding your fishing trip so please contact me at the email address that I left above.Thanks in advance.

    Bobby
    City: EDH, Cal

    Tips: I think you guys are being too hard on this guy or maybe you just can't believe that this limit is acheivable.It's acheivable on any body of water and at anytime of the year I know because I have seen it all too often on so many of the California Res/lake and river systems. So liten up

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Folk's, I don't know Walter but I've heard the type of crap your throwing at him before. Do-not criticize one for possibly achieving something that has yet become the nominal.

    About 8 to 10 years ago, during a Coyote Bait and Tackle Team Tournament, a 20+lbs limit on a little lake (Anderson Res.) in South San Jose/Morgan Hill was weighed in. Second place had 12 lbs. There was nothing but non-believers and skeptics until the following year, when 3 teams came in around 20 lbs. Yes, I was a member of the team that weighed in 20+lbs the first year and took third the following year. I friend of mine and his brother came in 1st the second year. First year I was fishing in 40 to 60 feet of water when everyone else was throwiung on the bank.

    The problem is, if it doesn't fit to our idea of what is or isn't possible, we're immediate non-believers. Relax, and ask Walter to take you fishing and teach you what you've been missing.

    Happy hooking to you all...

Friday, August 18th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: WOW,
    I am impressed with Walter's fishing. I know a bunch of pro's who have had their best days on Shasta with 17.79 pounds back in 2002. I have never heard of a bag that big from Shasta. I will tell you in 2002 while fishing with a buddy of mine who happens to be the pro who got the 17.79 bag I lost what would have been the biggest fish of my life right at the boat and it looked about 11-12 pounds. I caught that on a T-D minnow. But anywho Walter keep it up dude. By the way I am fishing a Tournament in Sept there you should register in it. With a bag that big you will win for sure.
    City: Roseville

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out to try and find "the bite" again. I'm no tourney angler, but did see a ton today. These guys and there spinnin rods, and tube baits. I tried the huddleston for no fish, switched to a soft tool. There were eating again. caught 2 fish at 6lbs, and then went to work with a mattlures real trout. caught another limit right around 18 this time.
    City: Redding

    Tips: Throw the big stuff, seriously.


    new to california, and loving it already.

Saturday, August 12th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught my first shast 20lb limit. Wow good fishing. I thought this was supposed to be a light line place, but nope. Threw huddlestons, and dd22's for 22.18 limit, no big fish just solid fish.

    Tips: If you want to catch big, fish big.

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 60's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took to young men (15&17)out for a day that had never fished before, caught 3 fish each in about 30 min. let them keep the largest 2 for home. Anyway they had the time of their lives. Spots seemed to hit on pretty much whatever got tossed at them.
    City: Cottonwood

    Tips: Fish are about 10 -20' off the banks and sitting on the egde of the coves. Have a ball !!

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

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    Water Temp: 65-69

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Rainbow Spook 7.07lb. Largemouth,6.81lb spot, over 20lbs. for 5 fish zebra spook bite coming on. for all you worm pokes,66,32a,116 for keepers all caught early in morning bite off 9:00am.
    City: redding

    Tips: comp investagators at both twin view tackle stores last 3 days with camera looking for all you pokes looking for a free ride on uncle sam. caught 3 keepers on albino fluke.....you are welcome for the tow Gary At PEPSI,should have took you up on drag boat tickets will keep posting till i go back to sandbox to hunt HODGEE.Good Fishing To All.