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Monday, May 5th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: put m y report in or today, couldn't igure out where it went, it is under the Almaden list, sorry about that.
    City: Redding

Thursday, May 1st, 2003

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    Water Temp: 54.9-56.1

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: got in a bailey cove at 10AM, lake at ull pool and they are dumping at 31,000 CFS trying to keep up with the inlow, 6 inches o rain over Mon-Tues, water pouring in everywhere. water airly clear but you must watch or the debris which is esily seen today as there was only a 3mph wind out o the south, ran up the McCloud near Mahles creek again above hirz bay or 22 total with one over 3 and 3 over 2lbs on hula grubs mostly with a hal dozen on the MGM 6 inch eel in an aarons magic copy, 5 more on the Rainbow #99, Red mud banks that are reasonably lat produce well, most ish came out o the 11t range. Carp rolling all over the place and creating their own mudlines, did see one huge spot locked on a nest but let her alone, looks to go an easy 7lbs, lots o cruisers and things should get better ater the weekend rain with great weather orcast or next week. lots o olks out ishing but mostly trolling or trout, willows producing well or senko throwers, photgraphed a 4+ or a guy that caught it on a senko back in Ycotti in some brush. got out at 130pm.
    City: Redding,Ca.

Friday, April 25th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 52-54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Been out ishing a number o evenings the last couple weeks, usually between 5;30-8pm. In the Sac. arm out o Bridge Bay. Using only spinnerbaits and crankbaits, getting a good bite over the 2-3 hours I am out. Fish are all keepers, and best is 2 lbs. Getting 4-6 ish an hour consistently at this time.
    City: Redding

    Tips: Go slow, ish between the rain and being in the sun seems to help. I'm on secondary points inside coves, and a ew ish are back in coves. Throwing to the bank and using retrieve that gets the baits 8-12 eet deep, but I can still see them. Fish are coming up to get the baits. Ater this set o rain, I think the topwater bite will really take o.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went or a houseboat trip 4/18 to 4/21 and brought our cruiser along. First and last days was best in the Squaw arm with Horse Creek producing nice spots with minnows. Most ish averaged 1 to 1.5 lbs. The middle days produced nada in the O'Brien and Waters Gulch. BEWARE -- Returned to the Jones Valley public launch only to ind my truck broken into. Since you have to pay per day and there is nobody around, you have to put a slip in your windshield. The crooks then know when you'll be returning.
    City: Pollock Pines

Saturday, April 19th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Red Blu Bass Anglers begins their year next sunday (4-27). Now is a good time to come out and ish with us. The meeting or the tourny is this tuesday (4-22). Red Blu Bass Anglers ish 6 or 7 dierent bodies o water in the N Cal area and we are looking or 1 or 2 new members. Start our new year with us now. Email or details.TerryA
    City: Red Blu

Thursday, April 17th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Ohhhhh, Chang Jr. me have nice day Shasta. Saw big ish in wirrows. Many ish. Fish swim away wom Chang other days. Not today. He stay. Chang cwouch down cast cwawdad. Chang Jr. grab wod weel ish in. I say Chang Jr- Ohhh that big ish ow this pond! Catch many big ish. Famiry eat good.
    City: Nagasaki

    Tips: Cwouch low hands on knees

Monday, April 14th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 54.5-58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Terry, managed 52, one at 3.6 and 3 more over 2 the rest were dinks with most caught below Dekas, let at 130PM.
    City: Redding

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    Water Temp: 55 +/-

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Red Blu Bass Anglers ished a team ormat (7 ish) this Sunday (4-13) on Shasta. First place was just under 16.5 lbs and second place was just over 12.5 lbs. Big ish was a spotted just under 5.5 lbs. Most ish were caught on Senkos next to submerged or partially submerged willows. Hey Jerry, howd ya do thursday?TerryA
    City: Red Blu

    Tips: Lettin Senkos all next to and into the willows was workin. Some rip ish and some spinner ish.

Wednesday, April 9th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 59-60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Very slow ish were in 30+ eet o waterTuesday ound ish up the McCloud arm about 12-13 inch range all the ish were either on 4 inch worms, drop-shotting, or hola-grub. Most o the ish had crawdads stuck in their throught. Most o the people that I talked to said GO TO THE PIT..... Their are ish their but I did not.
    City: Martinez

    Tips: Fish deep and very slow

Tuesday, April 8th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I want to thank ABA member Jack Freitag and his partner or taking my ish to weigh-in at Sunday's tournament ater my boat ailed to start and I had to be towed back to Packer's Bay. I also want to thank the gentleman who did the towing. All o these guys went out o their way to help. Thanks again!!!!!!!!!!!
    City: Central Point, Oregon

Sunday, April 6th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 54-56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Out on Sac arm rom 1730-2000 hrs. Found some water up to 58 degrees on the east side. Picked up 5 ish (3 spots, 2 smallies), all keepers, no size to speak o. Spinnerbaits and crankbaits. Its sure un to ish with the lake ull.
    City: Redding

    Tips: Watch the debris!!

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went to Holiday Harbor to work on my buddy's house boat , and noticed ish under the covered docks. I iguredthey might be looking or shad ? Had a Kastmaster tiedon rom ishing trout in Oregon last week, gave it a try.3 ish in 15 min. all in the 3-4# range. Back to work.Give it a tryTerry
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Used Gold 1/2 oz Kastmaster, caught one on the all andthe other 2 on the retrieve.

Thursday, April 3rd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 45

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rom 7 to 11 this morning. I caught well over 20 ish to 6#. My buddy landed the biggest. Fished the McCloud arm at the north end o the lake. They hit on buzz baits.
    City: chico

    Tips: Try buzz baits.

Tuesday, April 1st, 2003

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    Water Temp: 56-61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ish in willows on sac arm obrien-north to lakehead same pattern as davis report. but ish are crusing lots o emales up !!!!ish are spots though only saw 1 lg. mouth.caught 7 spots on top. work it slow then stop. i not tell you which topwater you have to igure it out.running water at sac arm lakehead in river/lake porduced 4 big smallies. all ish released.
    City: Roseburg

    Tips: willows are key, i you see a bank angler throwing livebait on big ish you can move those ish to areas that do not have acess except by boat.they did purchase a liscense it is there right to keep there take i sure hope ish and game starts checking liscenses most people do not display them or do not have them. as ar as behind mariners in the eagle area i do not know i you can walk into those coves,i have seen atv back there,but i it is illegal i hope they get caught.get your tackle at phils they are the best!!!!

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    Water Temp: 55-60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I thought I was catching good bed ish, but the people rom laos, kicked my bass today. They were throwing shiners on beds rom Jones Valley to behind Ski island. Three o these guys had the biggest stringers o largemouth I have ever seen, and I used to live on the Delta so I have seen a ew stringers. Mine were alive when I let, theirs were dead. Had a good day, with approx. 25-30 ish, see you in the willows tomorrow.
    City: Redding

    Tips: There has to be water running in to the willows to ind these ish, really easy to catch with live bait, but I caught mine o Carolina rigged loating worms. Saw alot o 6-10 pound ish, hope they're there tomorrow and the laos people aren't.

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I would like to thank the ollowing individuals or their help in making the irst B.A.S.S. ed tourney o the year a successul one. Steve Shaer and Vince Asaro or weigh in setup, Randy Stevens or helping with the weigh in, my wie Vicki and Michele Shaer or handling the weigh slips and monies and last but not least all the anglers who came out and participated. Lots o new aces and old ones. Congratulations to Bill Hanan(5th), Joe Ashworth(4th), George Conrad(3rd), Mark Schroeder(2nd), and Glen Grannis(1st). Glen has been a ed member or as long as I've known him and this win was long overdue. Hope to see you all at Lake Almanor on May 4th. Thanks again, Tony
    City: Redding

Monday, March 31st, 2003

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    Water Temp: 54 degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: HAD A GOOD TIME FISHING ON SHASTA THIS WEEK END WITH A GROUP OF GOOD FRIENDS THAT GET TOGETHER AND ENJOY THE GREAT FISHING ON SHASTA. LOTS OF FISH CAUGHT IN THE TWO DAYS,BUT MOSTLY SHASTA CLONES ON WORMS IN A LOT OF COLORS. THERE REALLY WASNT ANY PATTERN ON COLORS, BUT THE DEPTH EVERYONE WAS FISHING WAS IN THE 25 TO 30 FOOT RANGE. SOME FISH WERE CAUGHT ON JIGS BUT MOST WERE CAUGHT T RIGGED OR DROP SHOTTING.THERE WERE STORIES OF A COUPLE OF GOOD ONES BEING LOST BUT NOTHING OVER 2 1/2LBS WAS CAUGHT.MOST FISH WERE CAUGHT ON MAIN POINTS AND SECONDARY POINTS. A FEW FISH WERE CAUGHT IN THE WILLOWS IN COVES. THE ORGEON BOYS GOT THE BIGGER FISH SAT AND SUN. ROGER IF YOU READ THIS WE WILL GET YOU NEXT YEAR.
    City: anderson

    Tips: 4 INCH WORMS IN ABOUT ANY COLOR IN 25 TO 30 FT WATER

Saturday, March 29th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 54'

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Getting close now!!!!! Went out thursday aternoon or our hours to test my new "Pinpoint" 7420, I bought rom "jerry". Worked great, and the ishing wasn't bad either.Although it took two hours to igure them out on the Pit arm, I got 17 total, with three over two pounds. They seemed to be stacked on secondary points and pockets, also on lats next to deep water. they chose to eat 4" lizards on lite line.
    City: SF/Redding

    Tips: no aternoon reaction bite, nor jig bite.

Monday, March 24th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 48.5 to 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Ater a month o weather and projects around the house we inally got back out on the lake. It was a beautiul spring day and the weather was great. We ish rom Slaughter House around to Grey Rocks and then ended up at Bass Point. We had 18 in the boat with the largest going 1.7, our o those were smallmouth. Football head jigs rom 1/4 oz. to 3/4 oz. accounted or all but two that came on a 6" MGM Oxblood rigged on a 3/16 oz. darterhead. Most ish came in 20 to 30 eet o water. We did go back in one cove and picked up two small ish lipping a 1/4 oz. jig in the willows in 3 to 7 eet o water. We had a un day on the water and we only saw three other boats. Oh yes, I made a late run and tied the Blonde in the back, 9 to 9.
    City: Cottonwood

Sunday, March 23rd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 48-53'

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Finally ound ish moving up and in the backs o coves. Went out with "jerry" yesterday out o Packers. Fished the sac. arm only. Found most o our ish on secondary points, and all the way back in some creek channels. Nothing over 2 lbs. but alot o short atties.25 in the boat, many more missed, in our hours. Jerry used a hula jig, I used darter headed plastics.All colors.Getting good, get out and get your line wet.
    City: SF/Redding

    Tips: Swim the jig. When yiou get bit, eed them line, then set. Dead stick the darter head ater shaking it. Feel pressure, set the hook. No reaction bite or us this date.