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Monday, March 27th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished with a buddy on Sunday, got on the water at Jones Valley around 8:00 after talking to several flw pros. Headed up the Pit past dark canyon, fished several cuts, most fish seemed to be in 15-20 ft. on main lake or secondary points, found very few in the creek channels. Caught about 30-35 fish all 1-2lbs, texas rigged, and drop shotted Petes' Six Shooter sharks, and Robo Worms, and we also caught quite a few on tubes. Fished behind four different pros on several banks and boated lots of fish behind them, never saw three of the four boat a fish in two hours. Those clothes and boats and 300.00 rods/reels are nice to look at but the fish don't really know who or what is on the other end of the line. Couldn't figure out why they were all wearing Gortex jackets and pants when is was pushing 70 degrees outside, I guess they don't want any of us amatures to mistake them for one of us poor ignorant fishermen.
    City: Susanville

    Tips: Here's a tip for those pros who think they are better than us poor amatures, you might learn something by trying to have some at your job once in a while, also your not going to give up any of your top secret fishing info by saying hello "first" to a couple of amatures out on the water that are just trying to have some fun. By the way, Good luck this week to all the pros that we talked to that did have a little class.

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took my dad out Thursday, for some bassin, we fished the Pit all day only went as far as Dark Canyon. Caught Two good keepers up there, both over two lbs.. Fished mostly main lake points, better fish caught on clay banks using tubes or drop shot 6" robo's. Muddy banks were excellent for tubes and jigs. Caught the nicest of the day on the way back at the mouth of the pit on a cinnamon spider grub-2.5 lbs. Caught 25-30 keepers, best five would go 9.5 lbs.
    City: Susanville

    Tips: Fish the clay with tubes or jigs. Look for mud lines when it gets breezy.

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 46-50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished two days. First day up the Squaw and between the two of us we caught 51 total fish, some were keepers. Mostly on minnows, some on senko's, and a 3.5 lb large mouth on a spinnerbait. On friday fished the Sacramento arm and caught a total of 33 fish, again some keepers. Again minnows were the bait of choice, a few on senko's, a couple on spinnerbaits and a 4 lb large mouth on a minnow. Fish appear to stil be suspended, not close to the shore yet. Still lots of fun!!
    City: Rough and Ready, Calif.

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had some chores this A.M. so I didn't get on the Lake till about 10:45, must not have been holding my mouth right or something...1 good fish and not another bite using rubber worms and buzz. They seemed to all be sitting on the bottom at about 30-40 ft. off the rock points. Maybe I needed live bait or crawler.
    City: Cottonwood

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    Water Temp: 50.3 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hit the lake at 7:00 AM. went up the Pit River arm. Fishing slow, with us catching 9 keepers for the boat and 6-7 dinks in 4 1/2 hours. All caught on worms and grubs dragged really slow with long pauses.
    A lot of boat pre-fishing for the FLW tourney coming up. Heard of a few decent fish caught, but only caught from 1-2 lbs for our boat. off the lake by noon.
    City: Red Bluff

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 49-50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the lake with my Son-in-Law around 11:00AM headed for Squaw Creek, caught 40+ spots and smallies, on live minnows in 20 to 30 feet off steep rock walls and rockie points in 3 hours. The largest was only about a 1 1/2 lbs, but they are strong and lots of fun to catch on light tackle. If you set the hook early on them you hook them in the mouth, catch and release is still easy. I used to tournament fish, but now just like to catch them for fun. Lake Shasta is fantastic! Good luck to all!
    City: Redding

    Tips: Stay on steep rock walls near deeper water and rock points on the main lake. They are fat and ready to strike, have fun.

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 49.8

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took a run up to sugarloaf. Caught several nice bass. Home early for baseball practice. Minnows and rubber worms.
    City: Cottonwood

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    Water Temp: 49.8

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took a run up to sugarloaf. Caught several nice bass. Home early for baseball practice. Minnows and rubber worms.
    City: Cottonwood

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 48~50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished big ribbed grubs at 5 to 10 foot caught 3-4lbs 1- 6lbs and a ton of 2~ pounders. The bite is red hot.
    City: redding

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: to all the E-mails From My Very Special Friends,OORAH-ThankYou.I May Be Far-Away But You Are In My Hearts Everyday.I Am One Of Uncle Sams Misguided Children USMC.But I Can Help.Go To The Mouth Of The Squaw And Fish The North Side All The Way To The Big Point Where I Let You Get Off The Boat. You Bigger Kids Help The Ones In The Chairs As It Is Steep And Rocky.Use The Cinnomon W/red Flake Worms And The Watermelon/Pumpkin Lizards Carolina Rigged 35 to 60Ft. You Will Catch The Biggens,If Not Ask Phil Or Yogi Or Tony.When You Go To Oroville Contact Kent Brown Or E-mail Gary Dobyns On This Site They Are Honest And Will Help You.I Will Have A st.Croix And Curado In My Hands Soon.
    City: Sand city

    Tips: THE UNWANTED DOING THE UNFORGIVABLE FOR THE UNGRATEFUL...........SCOUT SNIPER,1/25th 011 DOORKICKERS......................SEMPER FIDELIS

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 48.9

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Couldn't get out till 1:30 p.m. because of snow. Report gave a few good hours so we loaded up the boys and headed to Bridge Bay. Worked several points with 1-2 fish per point. Traveled some up the Sacramento Arm. Minnows and Rubber worms. 20 bass with a couple of dinks. Heard salmon bite was 50 feet with downriggers. We didn't try for any. Lost my first prop on the kicker motor. I geuss I should have changed the carter pin after cleaning the prop of line 3-4 times.
    City: Cottonwood

    Tips: Stay warm, it was flat out cold coming in at dusk.

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 48.6 F

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: On the lake by 8:30 AM, with rain and snow heavy at times. Caught 25 fish between myself and my partner. Fish were 30-40 feet on average and seemed located on the creek channels and main body points. Fish were caught on Aarons Magic and Purple robo worms with a shot of crawdaddy scent. Drop Shot fished later with shad imitations for a few more fish. The wind picked up with 2-3 foot swells and headed back to the ramp.
    City: Red Bluff

    Tips: Fish slow with long pauses on the retrieve. The storms front seems to have pushed the fish back down, but they ar still biting.

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Had a good day fishing at jones valley, however there were two idiots in a jet boat fishing minnows at the big rocks making alot of racket and messed up our fishing. We still caught a limit and had a great time..
    City: jones valley

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Jones Valley our favorite place. We caught alot of bass and a few trout. We were using night crawlers and minnows and some cheese bait we actually caught bass on cheese bait. This is only my third time fishing ever...man I love to catch bass.
    City: San Francisco

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: We had a wonderfull time on the lake, we launched out of Jones Valley. Lots of other people enjoying the lake. We fished with minnows at the big rock pile and caught six nice keeper bass. We went up the Pit arm aways and fished our minnows catching some good ones. We took home a nice bunch of fish to eat. Just a fabulous day.
    City: Shasta Lake City

    Tips: Use minnows, anyone I mean anyone can catch em with minnows, If you can't you should give up fishing.

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    Water Temp: 49.8

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Worked a little harder at the Bass today. My 12 yr old got a nice 3-4 lb. We picked up a nice 4-5 lb salmon as well. Another 12 year old caught his first fish today. An enjoyable day at the lake with 3 boys.
    City: Cottonwood

    Tips: Boat ramps are full. A lot of boats on the lake today. With the nicer weather the lake is quickly filling up.

Friday, February 24th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: We ished the pit arm and cought alot of ish at arbuckle lots of bass, lots of boats but we cought a bunch of keeper bass..we used my special pork bait the basses love em.
    City: Concord

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 47 to 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: After a 9 month lay off due to serveral surgies itfeels pretty good to be back fishing again. Launched at Bailes Cove at 0630 air tempature about 50 degrees, wind out of the north @ a steady 20 mph, ran up the Mccloud arm to Hertz bay, fishing a client who has never fished for bass, throwing hula grubs on 3/4 oz. football jigs caught about 30 fish my client cound not get the feel for the jig so we switch to drop shotting 4" worms and he became a very happy camper catching 11 fish in the next hour. fished several points on our way back to Bailes Cove in all we caught appoximately 55 fish,40 keepers,big fish 2.7 lbs., Best five 9.5 lbs out at 1200
    City: Redding

    Tips: Fish off points in 25' to 45' water

Monday, February 13th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Dropped in at Jones Valley about 9 a.m. on Monday.
    Fishing plastic worms and minnows. Not much action tight to the inlets with creeks. Did well back in a few points off the main body of the Squaw arm. The kids had a blast reeling in one bass after another. Beautiful day on the water. I geuss we are in for another weather change. A little tease of Indian Summer.
    City: Cottonwood

    Tips: Looking for some info on the trout bite? Thinking next weekend might try downriggers at 15 feet and pull castmasters and humdiggers through the main body to ski island. Any advice?

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Dropped in at 4:00 p.m. today at Packer's Bay with my 11 yr old. Limited out at 4:45 p.m. All 2-3 lb bass. Saw and heard of lots of fish caught. Good time for some bass fishing. Bridge Bay was a zoo. Packer's parking lot was full as well. I figured most points would be pretty well fished. Boy was I wrong.
    City: Cottonwood

    Tips: Go fishing!