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Saturday, June 5th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: You two, Jerry and Bryce, are obscene in talking of those worms like that.. Smile/Hee Hee, just
    joking. On a serious note, Bryce, that #23 is working well here on Almanor and I will try it on another lake and tourney on Sunday. Looking forward to giving the others colors I got from you
    a try also. Will let you know the outcome and what they ate. Bill K
    City: Eagle lake road

Thursday, June 3rd, 2004

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    Water Temp: 74 to 76

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: In at Packers at 5:30 PM. slight wind out of the southwest. Went up the Sac to Potty Point and fish the wall to the north. Had a few hook ups but couldn't get anything to the boat. I was throwing some new colors and baits I had made earlier in the week. I think it was 7:30 or so before we boated a fish. I ended up with 12, but most were dinks, largest went 1.9lbs. The Blonde only caught 6 and she is looking over my shoulder to make sure I tell you hers ran from 1.5 to 2.0lbs., no dinks!! We used different worms, jig trailers, and a 4" lizard fished Texas rigged. All the plastics were BnS Worms in #23 Melon Pepper, #11 Motor Oil Wine, #30 Fall Craw, #31 Silver Shad(Ginger's worm), and your basic black trailer after the sun went down. Out at 12:00 midnight. Another beautiful night on Shasta.
    City: Cottonwood

    Tips: The better fish came after dark on the way back to the ramp in Packers cove. We caught fish from the bank to 25 feet deep.

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004

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    Water Temp: 73.2-75.1

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: In at Bailey Cove at 740PM, air temp 76, 95 in town, lake at 24.5 ft down, wind wnw at 5, ran up the McCloud a bit and the water is dirty with mudlines spread out nearly 1/8 mile with all the traffic over the weekend. Started throwing at the bank with a B&S twintail in melon pepper on a 3/8oz dart head but I wan't getting bit, about 9pm I switched to a 1/2 oz football head and started dragging it over red mud points and hit them good boating 18 small fish in the next 45 minutes then I ran out of the melon pepper twin tails. Stuck some different grubs on and caught 3 more but the bite shut down when the moon got on the water. Ran back to Bailey and got out at 1145PM, very little traffic, air temp 67 and a very pleasant evening.
    City: Redding

    Tips: the evening bite is great at sunset and a little after then it quits, fish were 12-18ft deep at first and on the bank by 915PM.

Wednesday, May 26th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went out about 6:oo an tuesday. Picked up 10-15 bass in the evening. The bite is hot at sunset. Largest was 16 in and around 3 pounds. Motor oil and shartruce tail working ok. Bigger fish on sencos.
    City: redding

    Tips: most of my sucess was on rock drop offs 8-30 feet deep,

Monday, May 24th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 72.4

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: in at Jones Valley at 815pm, air temp 74, water temp 72.5 at the ramp witha slight push out of the south. Got on some submerged humps in the lower Pit and started throwing a blade and rip bait with no takers. Tied on some new plastics(twin tail grubs) and got bit on third cast by a fat 3.08 spot. replaced the twin tail on the 3/8oz darter head and moved a bit and got another one about 2 minutes later that went 2.65 and I am liking this new stuff. Ended up with 9 more by 1015 pm when the wind came up out of the east and things got a bit chilly. My team partner and good friend Bryce Fuller has gotten caught up making his own brand of plastics and i went to his place earlier today and picked up some stuff to try out. I was particularly interested in the twin tails he is making and managed to beg for about 4 different colors and probably 6 a piece in each color. The most productive is his Black Root Beer ,#18 and his color #14(Dark melon oil) and #23 Melon Pepper.My best three fish on any color came on the #18 and went 7.34lbs. Missed about 20 others and had a few dinks but all in all a nice evening out. I didn't throw any of his worms, kinda hard to lay down my darter head rig when I am getting bit repeatedly. Good stuff Bryce! Got out at 1030 pm, temp down to 59 with a chilly wind from the east. There is about enough for 4 rigs in the gravel right now and the lake is 20.24 ft down.
    City: Redding

    Tips: Bryce can be contacted by email at brycensusan@juno.com, He lives in Cottonwood just south of Redding. Phone number is (530)347-1779 B and S worms is the name of his new business.

Saturday, May 22nd, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: i fished a tournament on the 22nd and the 23rd at shasta...it was ok, but not as good as it could be. winning weight was 18ish. difference between 8th and 1st was 3 lbs. big fish was 3.11

    Tips: no jig bite. Dropshot smoke-pepper/chart. tail Mothers finest up McCloud. some spawners up Pit arm (white or gray spinnerbait in wind and mud). rip bait (L.C. Bevy Shad in Ghost Minnow) and texas rigged white yamamoto single-tail grubs(4in.) some darter-head bite with Mothers Finest(Brown/Chart. tail and oxblood around willows. if you find a shad-ball, stick with it!

Wednesday, May 19th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 65.7-67.9

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: in at packers at 0520, lake down to 20ft and falling slowly, air temp 56, wind WNW at 8, ran over into the lower Pit and got on a good blade bite with 8 in the first 10 minutes but all small to 1.77, moved over into the middle McCloud and threw a combination fo rip, blade, and jigs got 9 more with a 4.55 spot on a jig, lots of fish being caught but not much size, mud lines pushed by wind were productive, fish came as shallow as 2 ft and as deep as 38ft. 10 more days and the vacation crush starts, already seeing a lot of jet skis and ski boats. Didn't see any debris anywhere this am. out at 1215
    City: Redding

Monday, May 17th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: very good bight in the am throwing rip baits and senko's. then darthead and weighted senko's when the sun comes up. if you're not catching fish within 15-20 casts on a bank, move, there's more fish elsewhere. not much in the backs of coves, lot's of fish on the main lake points and baks with red dirt and rock.

Sunday, May 16th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: GOT IN ABOUT 9 O'CLOCK HAD A SUPER DAY TONS OF FISH 14 TO BE EXACT. 10 OF THEM WERE CAUGHT ON SPLIT-SHOTTED NIGHT CRAWLERS WITH THE BIGGEST ABOUT 3LBS REST WERE FAIRLY SMALL BUT SAW A LOT OF BIGGER FISH CHASING THE SMALLER BASS WHEN I WAS REELING THE LITTLER ONES IN. FISH THE PIT ARM ALL DAY AND HAD THE BEST LUCK WITH NIGHTCRAWLERS BUT HAD SOME LUCK USING STRIKE KINGS BLEEDING SPINNERS AND ALSO 2 ON A PLASTIC WORM BY STRIKE KING.
    City: RED BLUFF

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: THIS IS NOT A FISHING REPORT ,BUT AFTER SEEING THAT OTHERS BESIDES MY SELF HAVE BEEN RIPPED OFF BY A BUNCH OF LOW LIFE THEIVES AT THE SHASTA LAKE BOAT RAMPS I THINK ITS TIME THEY PUT SOME KIND OF SECURITY AROUND THOSE RAMPS. THE LAUNCHING FEES SEEM TO BE GOING UP AND THE BREAKINS IN THE PARKING LOTS ARE ON THE INCREASE,A PERSON ON THE LAKE CANT REALLY ENJOY THEM SELFS KNOWING THEY MIGHT NOT HAVE ANYTHING LEFT WHEN THEY GET BACK TO THERE RIG.
    City: ANDERSON

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: clicked on to get a fishn rpt, as me and my hommies are heading up to this beautiful lake for a week....didn't know it was going to be the "johnny mac" show...i agree with the guy who said this is for fishn news, its 'jerry springer',....it might've been a little interesting if i knew or cared about johnny mac, but....for the complainee, i hope you learned something about checkn out the facts before you start bitchn publicly and for johnny mac; you got alot of air time...
    City: orinda

    Tips: i think the complainee owes johnny mac a fishn trip.....

Saturday, May 15th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Thanks Jerry bottom line is we are all fisherman and enjoy the sport. fished future pro Sat and caught lots of fish unforturnately none over 2.5, fished the Pit Arm in the morning at Boulder Island and some willows lots of small fish then went to Sac and caught quite a few in the 2.0 range with drop shot and senkos.Not enough to win oh well the Delta is next look out guys this one is mine!
    City: Alameda

    Tips: Drop shot after the morning bite!!!!

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Pit arm from 6a to 3 p. Great for quantity but short on quality. First hour great top water bite w/spook and then Lucky Craft jerk bait. 20 + but only 5 of them keeper size. Rest of the day caught fish split shotting points with green craw style 4" worms. 60+ fish w/only 15 over 13 inches. Big fish went 3+. All spots except for 7 smallies.
    City: Delhi

    Tips: Top water or jerk baits early then split shot secondary points in 15' to 25'

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: This is directed towards the guy that in early April lifted two tackle boxes filled with Lucky Craft lures out of my boat at Antlers boat ramp.... The reason it took me so long to get up to my van and gave you so much time to steal what it took me a very long time to accumulate, is because that was my last fishing trip prior to having open heart surgery.... I'm happy to say that the surgery was a sucess and that I'll be fishing Shasta again in a few weeks, and I believe I'll remember your boat and your face... It might be real smart for you to stay off Shasta for the rest of the year, because I'm going to be looking real hard for you, and if I find you, it would be real lucky for you if you had my lures to give back to me..... This is by way of a warning for everyone else, DON'T leave your boat ungarded even for as long as it takes to get to the top of the ramp as there seems to be a few low-lifes out there that will rip you off if you give them half a chance..... I lost 28 Lucky Craft pointers, sammys, kingyos, and others + two Shimano tackle boxes in just a few minutes, so beware of leaving anything that's loose....... Sorry to have to file a report like this, but I'm hoping that maybe someone else can learn from my mistake.......
    City: Williams, OR

    Tips: Carry a 12 gauge.........

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    Water Temp: 66.9

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I stand corrected and apologize, I did not read all the way down throught the posts about Johnnie Mac and went off half cocked, you did,in fact, include an e-mail address. I tried to send you an apology this am but your address given came back "undeliverable".
    jerry
    City: alameda

Friday, May 14th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 66.9

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got my biggest today at 2:17PM, took ten minutes to get this one landed. 7 lbs and 5 ounces and 19 1/2 inches long. Good Lord what a beauty!!!!

    Say hello to Gerald(jerry)Justin Scott Crusto of Elk Grove,Ca presently residing at Kaiser Hospital with his Mom(my daughter) and Dad who hit the ground running yesterday and made me a proud Grandpa again. We had dinner together and my heart was gone when I held him close and he snuggled into my neck. What makes them babies smell so good!!! Thanks to my son in law for naming him after me.
    signed:
    Gerald (jerry)Scott Waltman
    City: Redding

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: HEY GUYS I JUST HAD A QUESTION DO WE NEED A LAKE SHASTA LICENSE IN ADDITION TO REGULAR LICENSE TO FISH THE FUTURE PRO THIS WEEKEND?CAM ANYONE HELP ON THIS?
    City: WALNUT CREEK

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hey Jerry I have the balls to put my email addy (look at the first entry) also have the balls to say I was wrong.So I hope this will be the end of this and we can get back to fishing. Good Luck to all Tomarrow in the Future Pro!!!!!!

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: To anyone considering hiring a guide on Shasta, I would definitly reccomend Johhny Mac, I haev fished with him before and he has helped me out a bunch..Nice guy, and he would never not show up! He is always at the launch way before he needs to be, stand up guy!
    City: redding

    Tips: If you have a grievance, don't come to the reports section, call them in person.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Johnny Mac looks like I owe you an apoligy,my partner told me you said 5:30am,but we were there at 4:30am and were asleep in the car to the right of the guard shack and woke up at 5;30 didn't see you until you launched with someone else at that time didn't know it was you, again sorry for the mix up I will chew my partner out, but I only new the time he told me.maybe someday we will fish together no hard feelings I hope.