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Friday, May 20th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Gentlemen (I use that loosely here) Why can't we all get along??? We used to get some great reports and it was enjoyable to read the comments and reports from Shasta. God went to the trouble of providing a place where anyone can catch fish and enjoy the beauty surrounding Lake Shasta so let's just be grateful for small favors and Gods bounty. Johnny , hope you're back on the water soon and bring Jerry with you.

    Tight lines and good luck
    City: Bellingham

    Tips: Judge not, least you be judged yourself....

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I know the rules say that the reports are to be about fishing. But I just can't let what I just read go without saying something. Two guys, I believe their names are The Booger and Meathead, said some disparaging things about Johnny Mac and I do not appreciate it. As for advertising on this web page... I presume Johnny pays for it, so "gentlemen", put a lid on it! Second, in his last post, Johnny was talking like a true sportsman who loves to fish. He was encouraging people to take advantage of the full lake and beautiful weather; NOT drumming up business. Had either of you two read his earlier post about the last time he was on the lake, you would have seen that he broke his wrist on 5/12 and is currently unable to fish. In fact, it may be months before he is back on the lake. I was supposed to fish with Johnny on 5/13. Due to his injury, that did not happen. I eagerly await his return so that I can fish with this true gentleman.
    City: Redding

    Tips: If you don't like what anyone posts here, skip over it and/or ignore their advertisments.

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey, Josh
    What ever happened to your photos of the 12 lb. spot you caught in April???
    City: Redding

Monday, May 16th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: This is not a report but an inviation to come to this beautiful lake while its full of water, the fishing is great with a good topwater bite in the early morning and an excellant jig and darhterhead bite after that. This lake is really magnifiencent when its full as it is now, come out to fish it before the crowds start the 1st of June, maybe I will see you on the water
    City: Redding

Saturday, May 14th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: fishing with a jim from montgomery creek and tim from halfmoon bay,on the 12th launched at bridge bay @0515 and ran to ski island where we picked up several spots and 1 smallie on topwater, decided to go up the sac. stopping at several points and coves, catching fish at each stop, wound up on the bridge at charlie creek where they were stacked up caught a few before i made a mistake and lost my balance and fell off the boat so close to the bridge i struck my right wrist on the concrete bridge and broke my wrist.
    I waslucky enough to be with two experienced anglers who took charge and got me and my boat to the dock at bb, tim stayed with the boat and jim rushed me to the hospital, thanks jim and tim
    and those of you who have already e-mailed me.
    City: Redding

Friday, May 13th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: In @ Antlers 5:45 am blades 1st small ones rip no go wormed a nice spot 3+ on Grnwny on darter some others not as big moved southjust before goose crank was workin workin workin a lot of nice fish on ffshad crank crank crank alot of fish 1:00 alot of boats everywhre lota traffic wentback up past RVland and marina rip some on swclown end of day 3:45
    City: Redding

    Tips: careful boats+debri and rattlers are out on shore remote..some real IDOTS on the water shouldn't be drivin a boat.

Sunday, May 8th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Weatherd the storms and slayed the fish wide open all day. spooks in the morning and switched to blades when the wind picked up and so did the bight best five for 11
    City: williams

    Tips: worked back in the coves

Saturday, May 7th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Bridge Bay 0515 cool with ligth winds and rain, Motored out to Dolly point to pick up my client from Roseville on his houseboat, started with a jitterbug and a white blade 1st fish came on the bug appox 2# spot then client catches two more on the bug 1.5 # worked our way around to dolly cove no takers, ran up the big backbone to 5 mph bouy and worked the east bank up to upper limestone creek caught several more fish 1.5 to 2.25 # back down to check on his houseboat @ 1030 as the winds are 15 to 30 mph, the boat is stilled anchored in the right place. Moved over to the little backbone. switch to jigs and darterhead with a green worm, 4 fish at the point going in, decided to call it quits even though the rain has stopped and the sun is out.
    Total fish caught 25 best five appox. 10.0 lbs.
    dropped of my client at his boat @1200. What started as a bad day actually turned out very nice,
    City: Redding

    Tips: 1/4 oz. darterhead with 6" oxblood worm

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Wuz on the water @ 0530 Packers went up the Mac deep caught a few on points with crank no big uns went into coves uzed darts with Robos few 2s no big uns back out up Squaw steep rock uzed new bait like beaver just runts grubbed a few 2s spinned a few one nice4+ no more rip and top pop a few no big uns getin dark crank a few and bam a big un no scale but 7+ out a time saw a huge fish of some kind roll HUGE just before we started the motor HUGE don't know? looked like a whale rollin Butcher out.
    City: Redding

    Tips: take camera always take toilet paper always

Monday, May 2nd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 60-63

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I did catch 5 fish on a popper,the fish the other guy is talking about have to be little,i let it sit right over the green bush in water.i caught bigger fish in the brown sticks with a crappie jig and caught my biggest fish near a booey,it was BIG.red worms plastic work good i dont know the other stuff but my dad says if you can do neighborhood watch at night in jones valley and do nothing but get drunk and steal peoples stuff then your a perfect canidate for a security job at a kmart or maybe work in a carwash.but he says anyway you look at it they are stealing from americans i am learning alot from all of you
    City: Anderson

Sunday, May 1st, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Im curious as to where and what time you guys were fishing the top water lures. I cant wait until its time to throw top water all day. Anywho.... went fishing over the weekened with my girlfriend, we basically stuck with trout colored sinko's or brown gitzits or smoke with red and black flaked gitzits. Started out fishing rocky shores with lots of fish, but nothing above 1.5 - 2 lbs. Then moved to some willows and stuck with sinkos and gitzits, did very well near willows, but again, nothing big what so ever. Would say prolly 90% were smallies near the damn. Next day we went up Mcloud arm with same gear, caught about half the fish as the first day (still nothing big) and caught all spots or largemouth.
    City: Redding

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    Water Temp: 62-65

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: thanks for the stay robert,your new place in jones valley is nice,like the acreage.the skitterpop gave me a whole new look at bass fishing.it is as you say the greatest lure ever made for shasta i will always have one tied on.i hope the kid slows down at the quarry and lets the sticks do some work for once !!!.
    City: paradise

    Tips: dont lose track of your old fishing pals,they might have been holding back and teach you something.

Saturday, April 30th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: fish the sac arm fri,sat and sunday. fished all 3 days fom mid afternoon till dark. the bite was hot as soon as the sun went down. from 5 pm on. caught over 50 spots on fri. went threw two packs of robo worms. the fish were biting them in half or just taking them all together. most fish were hitting on the drop. boy they were schooled up! had 10 fish on 10 casts at one point. they maybe small but they are fun to catch. i am only using 6 lb test on ultra light tackle. my biggest spot on fri was a little over 3 lbs. they seemed to be only wanting one type of worm . 4 inch roboworm in the sculpin pattern. redish brown top with off white belly. sat and sunday were good too. saturday produced a good 30 + fish and sunday was around 30 again aswell. sunday i did catch a couple smallies. for the most part the fish are small and super aggressive. fun for light tackle.

    Tips: roboworm in sculpin pattern brown to red colors... 4 inch... back coves, flats that coinside with steep drop offs, submerged brush and trees.

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Lunched at bridge bay 0530, fishing with clients, father and son team from Sacramento area. Started on the south on name island throwing topwater and a white blade, son gets bit on third cast and lands three fish before dad or I get a fish then we started catching good 1.5 to 2.5 fish. Next stop halfway cove
    where son continues to kick our butts catching two fish to our one, he is catching them on anything I give him to throw, blades,ripbaits hula grubs,worms spooks and jitterbugs. Decided
    to run up the Sac arm to fish the railroad bridge where we got several more. I am really impressed with this young ability to catch fish using the differnt technics. Dad was a very good fisherman. but this kid was awesome for a 16 year old. All total we caught a lots of fish appoximately 100 with the biggest going 3# best five appox. 12.5. Out of the water a 1500. It was a pleasure to fish with them and I feel cofident they will do good in the up comming Future Pro
    City: Redding

    Tips: Start them young

Friday, April 29th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 62.4

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: A coworker and I ditched work early to meet another coworker, Mike, who is on vacation, fishing with his brother who is here from So Cal. Got in the water at Bailey Cove at about 10:00 am. Just a light breeze blowing from the south. Mike and his brother went to the main body and fished between the Squaw and the McCloud on the north side of the arm. My partner, Erin and I went up the McCloud. Stopped first at a cove east of Hirz Bay and threw a rip bait and a spinnerbait with no takers. We fished first over submerged willows on a point at the entrance to the cove. Switched to a #1 M/F worm and landed a few shot ones. Moved to the back of the cove, into the willows, and threw Senkos for a few more short ones. Left that spot to fish the west side of the arm, north of Hirz Bay, and landed several fish on the next three coves with willows in the back of the cove. The first three coves I hooked one fish that was 3 lbs. + in each cove, in the willows. Also hooked a bunch of short fish, but nothing in between. We saw several good fish cruising around willows. Went back to Bailey Cove to meet another couple of other coworkers, Greg and Scott, that came out after work. We had a litle over 10 lbs on only three fish. Mike and his brother had 10.63 lbs on their best 5 which they caught on senkos, but not in willows. The wind picked up to between 5 and 10 mph. Headed back out to fish until 7 pm. We went back up the McCloud, Mike and his brother went back to the main body and Greg and Scott went to the Squaw. We stuck with fishing the willows and our best 5 weighed in at 10.38 lbs, with Erin bringing in a 3.44 spot for the best fish of the day. Mike and his brother only were able to land only three keepers for a little over 5 lbs. Greg and Scott had some decent fish, but not of much size. All in all, a good day of fishing.
    City: Palo Cedro, Ca

    Tips: Use senkos on the willows. Bright colors seemed to work best along with watermelon/pearl. Get in tight to the willows. If you're not getting hung up once in a while you're not fishing close enough.

Monday, April 25th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 57 to 60

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished with a client(Dennis) and his lovely Wife (Jamie) from Sac. He is a very good fisherman and his wife is just starting to fish. Launched at bridge bay at 0530 temp. about 47 degrees fished points right out of ramp throwing spinnerbaits until we have better light to head up the mccloud, Dennis caught the 1st a 2.5 spot and Igot the next 2 both were 2-0. Headed up the mccloud to shallow point where we caught three more all small about 1.5 and Jamie dropped her rod and reel in the lakein about 10' of water,
    Next stop greens creek where a caught a 2.4 . one of my clients needed a restroom, so we went back to holiday harbor and no it was not Jamie, we then fished the willows behind all the boats, nada. next bear cove willows for 8 more 1.5 to 2.25 on weightless trik worms then to squaw point for finished up at the point with 1/4 oz. darthead and oxblood worm for a total weight of 9.5 Three of the last four where smallmouths.
    out of the water at 1400
    City: Redding

Saturday, April 23rd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 57-60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Friday-Sunday with the Redwood Empire Bass Club under clouds and scattered showers throughout the weekend. The bite turned out to be tougher than expected. Tried blades, crankbaits, rip baits, but not much luck. The best reaction bite we had was early Sunday morning when we caught 5 keepers before 8:00 on shad colored cranks. After that the bite died off. Saturday, my partner caught a 2.48 spot on a crankbait near some willows. The best action we found was in isolated willow trees tossing senkos. Not just around the trees, but you had to get the senko in the small pockets between the branches. The closer in, the better the bite. Just drop it straight down and watch your line. We averaged about 8 lbs a day for 5 fish.
    City: Rohnert Park

    Tips: The senko bite really kicked in after 10:00 when the sun peaked out and the water warmed a couple degrees. Be sure to use at least 15 lb test when working in the willows to pull out those spots.

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    Water Temp: 58.6

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Jones Valley at 0515 used moonlight on this great morning to find the houseboat from Silverthorn in Fort Creek Coves, picked up my client at 0530. Started with blades on long point in Fort Creek, not even a bump,fished several humps and points with no success before giving in to fishing the willows, had client throwing a Zoom weightless trick worm while I threw a jig My client caught three small fish and I changed to the same worm and promptly caught two more moved across the lake to Bear Cove where we caught several more including 2.5 spot, my client caught one fish on a dropshot and the rest of our 35 fish came on the zoom trick worm. No luck with dartheads or jigs. Dropped off my client at 1230 enjoyed fishing with you Greg, you are a good fisherman.
    City: Redding

    Tips: Not all the willows hold fish but most of them do even if you can't see them

Sunday, April 17th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 56-58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Thursday through Saturday last week camped at Hirz Bay so spent most of time in McCloud, caught lots of fish on plastics, Senko's catching the biggest fish had one 5lbs and lots of 2lbs.
    Fished the willows with Senko's and caught some split-shoting the points. color didn't matter as much as presentation
    City: Cameron Park

    Tips: Fish the willows slow watch your line if you don't get a fish in the first 3 or 4 casts move to another willow.

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

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    Water Temp: mid 50's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: the fat bass are in!!!!! i nailed a 12 lb spotted bass on a senco in about 15 ft of water. i must of hit the mother load of fish. i caught 5 fish off this point that were all over 5 lbs. the water was clear enough to find these fish hangin off there beds. this has to have been the biggest spot i have ever got. my previous was 7 lbs. the fish are hangin off the flats. transitional areas like points before large open coves. fish are hangin in water from around 20 to 5 ft. they seem to be staying out in the open areas in the morning than moving into the shallows as the water warms in the afternoon. this looks to be a great year. these are the biggest bass i have seen in years.

    Tips: to get bedding female use the largest worm or leach you can find. or something big in a rainbow trout color. it may take 50 casts on the same fish but patience will pay off if you can find these guys. some fish are moving into the back coves but i don't think you need to waste your time just yet. fish the southwest or west faceing coves. the fish are really enjoying the sun right now. fish shallow 25-0 ft. for small bass fish the back coves. for big bass fish the flats. find areas of loose small boulders and rocks. these fish are not sticking to too much structure right now. fish the areas were you would never think bass would be hangin out. because they are there...........