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Monday, April 11th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Looking for some info on Shasta. I don't fish here vere much and was wondering if the fish started spawning yet. What areas of the lake to best find the most concentration of bedding areas. Now I know you can find beds all over the lake but I am trying to cut down on my searching time. I am going to go up there in the middle of may for a few days to fun fish and would appreciate any info. You can e-mail me at nonny75@pacbell.net

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: fish willows-good luck. watched sports center today on local calif anglers.congradulations to aaron martens,and i hope this is taken the right way,when they talked about the smear campaigns there right!!! i know of 3 shasta pro's 1 oroville,2delta and a father/son team from jones valley they even turned into peta. i do think this pertains to shasta fishing as our local pro's make it big they are smeared in a highly competative world.
    City: red bluff

    Tips: go fishing have fun and remember pass it down to the next generation.good fishing K.C.

Monday, April 4th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 55-57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in the Pit arm. We caught fish on skirted grubs on a dart head. (brown seemed to work best) Had one fish on a white spinnerbait in a deep cut. Largest fish we weighed was 2 lbs, but there might have been a couple a little over that. Found spots where we would get action on almost every cast, but there were lots of areas that didn't pay as well. Some fish were right against the bank, but the majority came out of 20 ft water depth. Gravelly areas seemed to be best, especially if they were on steep banks.
    City: Susanville

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Out of bailey cove at 9:30 up the mcCloud fishing cuts with 6" worms nothing but dinks.
    Started fishing willows 2 fish just keepers on senko's. The fish are starting to move into the willows.Its 12:30 started to fish shallow points
    with rip baits bingo 4 fish on the first point
    and on almost every point i fished. Big fish a
    3.02 spot. Had 2 blacks in the bag also. Best five 11.09. All the better fish on rip baits.
    City: Redding

    Tips: Start fishing willows I saw
    fish sitting in the branchs in the afternoon.
    The better fish seem to be shallow in the afternoon.

Sunday, March 27th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished a small tourny outa Packers on Easter. Got all my good fish on heavy(3/4-1/0) jig and pig. Hulas and darterhead worms accounted for a bunch of fish too. Caught over 20, including a 3.13 spot before getting blown off the lake around 1:00. Suprising the reaction bite was dead even with the wind, tried cranks, jerks, spins and even a real cal; nothing. Had 9.9 for four fish.
    City: Redding

    Tips: same old thing; brown, cinnimon, smoke, a. majic. Fish were spread out caught them from 6 to 60 feet, points and coves, best fish around 20 sides of points.

Friday, March 25th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 52 degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Cold clear morning with a full moon, fishing with a client from bay area new to redding and to bass fishing Left bridge bay at 0545 startrd on south side of no name island client throwing a spinnerbait and myself a rip bait, one hit on the rip bait did not hook up. moved over to dolly point @ 0730 client throwing a 1/4 oz. darter head with a 109 4" worm and myself a 3/4 oz.football head jig with a 122 whodoneit on his second cast he hooks a fish, a good fish and works it very well for novice, we get the fish in the boat and weight it, 3.8 # a real dandy for his first shasta lake spotted bass next i caught a 2.6 # spot. 0830 we leave for the big backbone ist stop shoemaker creek started fishing our way back, throwing jigs and working points and incoming water landed 12 fish all in great shape and all between 1.75 & 2.0 # out of the water at noon. another beautiful but cool day on this great lake
    City: Redding

    Tips: There is still some very big wood drifting around out there be careful

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    Water Temp: 52 degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Cold clear morning with a full moon, fishing with a client from bay area new to redding and to bass fishing Left bridge bay at 0545 startrd on south side of no name island client throwing a spinnerbait and myself a rip bait, one hit on the rip bait did not hook up. moved over to dolly point @ 0730 client throwing a 1/4 oz. darter head with a 109 4" worm and myself a 3/4 oz.football head jig with a 122 whodoneit on his second cast he hooks a fish, a good fish and works it very well for novice, we get the fish in the boat and weight it, 3.8 # a real dandy for his first shasta lake spotted bass next i caught a 2.6 # spot. 0830 we leave for the big backbone ist stop shoemaker creek started fishing our way back, throwing jigs and working points and incoming water landed 12 fish all in great shape and all between 1.75 & 2.0 # out of the water at noon. another beautiful but cool day on this great lake
    City: Redding

    Tips: There is still some very big wood drifting around out there be careful

Thursday, March 24th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Roamer,

    We don't use sites like hitsunlimited.com, despite the fact that we'd have a high ranking on it, because we've seen time and again that they don't have any validity to the numbers they keep. It's also why we don't particpate in a number of other hit tracking sites and sites that pay you per purchase, they simply don't work well. Sites like that use the traffic from sites like ours to bolster their own traffic numbers and little more.
    City: Oakley

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fishing good on sac arm topwater and brown rips hot. how come this site is not listed on top 500 websites at hitsunlimited.com is this domain????
    City: red bluff

    Tips: check domain on mainframe is this legit site?

Friday, March 18th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Been on the lake the past three days with cousin from Portland. To say the least, the weather has been awfull. Rain and wind,,,,,,,,,,,,,,but we still had a blast and caught some fish,averaging 35 per day. Water temp was 49-51'. Fished the upper McCloud on Sat. and had a decent day, once we got the pattern. Who Done it's and tubes at 15-20', on small rock, and spawning coves. Also. we got a few on the leeward side of the points. Our best five might have gone 13-14 lbs. With nothing over 3.5 lbs.
    Sunday fished the main and the Pit. Again when we finally figured it out, same pattern as the McCloud arm. Tubes were the best producer that day. Best five was a little over 10 lbs.
    Yesterday,fished dry creek arm, and had our best day with jigs, tubes and who done it's. 46 fish in all, maybe 12 lbs for the best five. 90% smallies.
    Sent ole cousin home today, tired, but satisfied.
    City: Redding

    Tips: The spawn is on, at least they are ready. The best bites wewre def. in the pockets and coves, on small rocks. Hope this helps.
    Cousin, kicked my butt with an Oregon tube, smoke,with copper and purple flake. Wish I had some.

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the WON BASS tourney on Saturday, caught fish from 10-45 feet, we had no reaction bite at all, fished 6 " worms in a brown color on 1/4 ounce darthead, the fish are hungry and the bite is good. Fish are starting to cruise the shallows.
    City: Red Bluff

    Tips: Good luck

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished all day on the Upper Sacramento Arm.. Used Jerry's MGMs.....Caught fish about 40ft down....Size 20 to 30pounds...Nice fat ones..12 Fish in ALL..A few gave a good fight. Im heading to the Dam tomorrow...Im hoping to pull in some good size fish....Kinda tired of these little 20lb teasers....
    City: Redding

    Tips: If your Irish you will have Good Luck...and get some good bite..This is great fun...Best O LUCK to ya

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: This will be my last post in the reports area regarding this subject. I have deleted all of the non-report posts that were here. The reports section is for just that, reports. If you want to complain about something, come into the fourm and do it there. As is stated right above the "Submit report" button, offending report posts will be removed.

    In the case of Jerry Waltman and MGM lures, the facts were simple. We felt that his constant posting of and constant references to a manufacturer were advertising. We asked Jerry to continue to make his reports, but to offer a generic description of the baits used, along with his email address in case anyone wanted more specific information. As simple as that. Jerry was told this by email and by telephone.

    Jerry was not "run off" from this site. He has chosen not to post in this report area any longer. It was his choice and his choice alone. In the last conversation that the owner had with Jerry on the telephone, he told Jerry that he could post whatever he wanted but he could not guarantee how long that the site would be available if sponsors were run off by the posts. That was not a veiled threat, it was a statement of fact. If we make our sponsors mad and they choose to end their relationship with our site, it WILL shut down.

    It is a simple fact that our servers cost money, the bandwidth costs money and the site work costs money. Yet we allow everyone to use this site for free. It is free due to the sponsor dollars that are paid to us. If we did not have sponsors, we would not exist. We have a duty and an obligation to those sponsors to see that they are treated fairly. When another company is able to come in and advertise their product for free, why should our sponsors continue to pay us for essentially the same service?

    OK. I have laid all of the FACTS out on the table for all to see. We are not hiding anything from anyone. If anyone would like to discuss this further, you can do so via email at webmaster@westernbass.com, or via posting in the forum. I will respond to all emails and will make public replies to any posts in the forum. Further posts that are not a fishing report will be deleted from this area.

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: camping on a dirt point in jones valley. caught all my fish wuth brown minnow baits and brown sara spoks.most over 2lbs. and biggest over 5lbs. they are really easy to catch. my dad is bringing me back next month.
    City: los gatos

    Tips: dont kill the fish save them for next time.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Need a little help with a fishing report. I know that somebody has to be fishing the lake. I am in a small tourney this weekend and would appreciate any help you can give me.
    City: Burlingame

Saturday, March 5th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Found fish in 45-50 feet of water. Average was 2.5lbs. Color did not matter much & when they took it, they really took it.
    City: Cottonwood

    Tips: Fishing vertical structure

Tuesday, March 1st, 2005

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: go with big bait rig 4 magnum size sac arm spots.1oz. carolina rig with4-7" minnow baits (FLOATER) Bone or Albino with BIG FLUFFY WHITE TAIL.Use On Points with TRIBUTARY on it Throw Out To 70ft. of Water Let Sink To Bottom SLOWLY BRING BACK UP POINT ALLOWING TO REST ALOT & REST ALOT THIS RIG KICKS BASS YOU CAN JUST LET IT SIT AND GET BIT ITS THE BEST THING Since ? LIVE BAIT LOL.
    City: kennett

    Tips: DEEP CRANKIN THE RIP, CAN COVER ALOT OF ZIP...

Saturday, February 12th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 48-48.8

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: woke up early and noticed a significant pressure drop so read a bit and then off to the lake, gave the club guys room and went up to Hirz Bay and got in at 0650 just as the first few showed up running up stream. Air temp a brisk 34 degrees, lake at 61.5 ft down and the upper McCloud is a bit murky. motored over to the mouth of Hirz Bay, dropped the trolling motor and started throwing hid's in 109, 66, 22, 23 on 3/4-1/4 oz for 13 before 0745 and every one was a dink. I have swim baits larger than these fish. Headed south a bit and finally manage some decent fish, had 6 over two and four more dinks with the best five going a decent 11.17. The three best came on the #109. Shallowest was 19ft, deepest was 61 ft and the best five came out of about a 43 ft average. Went back to the ramp at 1145 as the first rain drops hit my head and out at 54 degrees. just a little wind out of the north and the lake went flat at 1030. most just loaded up , no resounding thumps today. Looks like we have a week or so of rain coming.
    City: Redding

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 47.9-50.1

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: at Packers at 0640, one ahead of me, air temp 44, wind out of the north at 8, ran over into the mid sac arm and got bit real quick, had 9 before 0815 and one went 2.4, caught them on a new color hoo dun it, #100, a smoke with red and black flake HOWEVER that was it until 12 noon. fished in 15 different spots and got on some fish but no go. Ended up north so ran back south and got into them again but on the hdi in #109 and got my best of the day a fat 2.82. only 2 dinks out of the 19 and one other decent fish at 1.9. no rip or blade fish this am. The 1.9 came on the #22, out at 1345, air temp 64 and very pleasant. wind up and down this am from 8 to 15 out of the north and NW. The fish were hitting noticeably harder today.
    City: Redding

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 48.4-49.6

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: headed for Jones Valley this am, first time in quite awhile, there at 0635, one ahead of me, air temp 41, wind out of the north at 5, lake is 62.5 ft down and the road in is in good shape with 15 graveled spots where the new culverts went in, lots of slash piles burning, add about 10 minutes for your trip into the ramp, ran over in the the middle pit and can't find any fish, get one bite at 8 am but miss it. Keep at it while moving around and still no fish, said the heck with it at 845 am and ran downstream near the McCloud and got on them good, had 19 fish between 0900 and 1140. Most were deeper than 35 ft. Got them on the hoo dun its in #109 and 22 with the most on the #22 with 3 over two, biggest at 2.27. caught some worm fish on the MGM #66 and a rainbow worm #99. Used a new bait called a Shasta Crawler that was cinnamon with red flake for 3 of them, most fat as footballs and full of crawdads. Widn pretty much quit while running back to Jones Valley, lots os small debris in the water with a few trees now coming downstream in the Pit Out at noon, air temp 57 and 40 plus rigs in the gravel at the ramp. Watch out for the logging going on around the Jones Valley road.
    City: Redding