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Monday, October 7th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAUNCHED AT PACKERS AT DAY BREAK WENT OUT TO MAIN POINT ON THE LEFT GOING OUT OF PACKERS AND CAUGHT TWO NICE KEEPER FISH ON A WHITE STANLEY WEDGE SPINNER BAIT. LEFT AND WENT IN THE BASS COVE AREA AND NEVER GOT A FISH. WIND WAS WHITE CAPPING REAL GOOD. WENT TO FIND SOME LESS WINDY AREAS TO FISH AND AROUND 11:AM HEADED UP THE SAC ARM. THE WIND DIED DOWN AND GOT INTO A BUNCH OF FISH CHASING SHAD. PUT ON THE HOPKINS SILVER SPOONS AND THE BLONDE AND I STARTED CATCHING BASS AND TROUT. WE CAUGHT TROUT UP TO 4LBS AND LOST BIGGER. THE BASS WERE IN THE I I/2 LB TO 1 3/4 LB RANGE, NEVER HAD A BIG ONE ON. WE HAD A BLAST HOOKING FISH. THE SHAD WENT DOWN DEEPER AROUND 3PM SO WE CALLED IT A DAY.ALL FISH WENT BACK TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY.
    City: ANDERSON

    Tips: LOOK FOR SHAD SCHOOLS AND PUT YOUR SPOONS ON. THEN GET READY FOR ACTION

Sunday, October 6th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at bridge bay, trolled sacramento arm and mcloud arm with nothing! So we trolled on down to the squaw creek arm and started picking up trout. I caught 1- 4lb brown and 3 4-6 lb rainbows. Lots o ish, best trout ishing so ar all year. I released all ish, but what a great time! I went out early 10/7/2002 and knocked them dead again. I caught 10 trout deep back in the squaw arm the biggest was a 8 lb brown trout. I was trolling using Rapaulla and crank bait lures. I used a deep six going out 150 t. Flashers seem to work good too using a dave davis ollowed by craw ish lures.
    City: Redding

    Tips: Crawish lures, 12 lb test line, using a dave davis or ord ender using a deep six diver. Leader we were using 10 lb test line, we were loosing ish on lower test line. Seem to hit better early in the A.M. but pretty productive all day until dark.

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    Water Temp: 69_

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Put in at Centimudi 0600,ishing with a client rom the Bay area, run up the Sac to the gooseneck,throwing top water we pick up 4 nice spots, the best was 2.6 lbs. Topwater bite died about 0730, tried jigs,split shot and drop shot until 1000 with only one ish my client caught on split shot uith a MGM 156 worm. Moved down to O'brien tried topwater again or two more about 2 lbs.each. Fished to the back o Doe cove, no bites. Moved to the Big Backbone ished there until 1400 caught serveral ish on MGM smoke crawlers but no good ish.At our last stop at the tip o Slaughterhouse we ound a hugh ball o Shad, we both spooned several ish including 3 salmon to 4 lbs. and 2 more bass to 2 lbs.Out at 1600, another beautiul day on the magniicent lake.
    City: Redding

    Tips: Topwater early then hunt or bait and you will ind ish on the bait

Saturday, October 5th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 70.0

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Trout Fishing was Great! Picking up very good now. Launched at Jones Valley and ished the jones valley inlet and up the squaw arm and my buddy caught 4 trout rom 2 - 4 pounds each ish. We were trolling with green crawish lures about 30t down using dipsy divers and deep six divers with about 3t leader. We trolled at 1.5mph seemed to work best. We stayed in the squaw arm and caught several browns and raindbows. Seems like thats where the trout are hanging out now.
    City: Bella Vista

    Tips: troll using a diver between 20-30 eet using green crankbait lure (crawish). Ford enders work extremely well using about 1 t leader with green crawish.

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    Water Temp: 70'

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Gee, I wonder why jerry didn't post a report here? I'll do his job or a change. Launced on the McCloud, ished some jerry's tourney water,(can't tell you where) pretty slow. Got one small one ripping early. Jerry ished the jig almost all o the A.M.,with ive ish. I caught eleven, while shaking a darterheaded worm, and dropshotting. Shad colored baits worked best or me. All ish were small. We both got one about a pound and 1/4. so we tied or big ish.The bigger ish are playing hide n seek. Back soon or a rematch! The lake was down, but still beautiull. The weather was gorgious also.Soon I'll be a local! Har....
    City: Livermore/Redding soon!

Tuesday, October 1st, 2002

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: lake conditions at present, don't go up to antlers or the public ramp as it is out o the water, sugarloa is in, hirz bay south is in but muddy, jones valley down to 1 lane, centmudi is ok but tough getting out with a small truck due to the slope, went up to Shastina today with the wie, I have never ished there and we decided to go have a look at the place, there is no WATER up there, the lake looks to be at least 50 t down and I don't think the deepest part is much more that 70t. Not a single ramp in the water, very depressing to see such a beautiul spot so dry, Stopped at a little BBQ joint in Weed on the main drag (highway 97) and had some good down home BBQ or a change, I still miss Flint's and Everett& Jones in Oakland. Shasta is at the 80 t mark and is not as ar down as last year this time. Pray or a wet winter.
    City: Redding

Monday, September 30th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 70-71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I ished a club tournament with the San Joaquin Bass rustlers on Sat/Sun 9-28/9-29, and pre-ished on the riday beore. It took a whole day to igure these ish out, as it was overall a tough bite, but we unlocked the secret to catching bass all day. Me and my partner caught limits on both day's. First we ound the most active bass under balls o shad, and we dropshoted mini gitzits clear/silver lake between 40-60 t. Tag end o dropshot was 2 t. hook up two gitzits on the same setup or better results. The winner o the tournament was dropshotting a pro worm 4 1/2 in. cinnamon/blue. 2nd. pl. was split shotting a plain green weenie 4 in. between 15-30 t. Fish steep banks with chunk rock. I you graph ish and they don't bite go ind some that are active and eeding and stay with them.
    City: Valley Springs

    Tips: I hope this report will help someone out.As I haven't seen to many reports being posted lately to help out a visiting angler.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: This was my irst time on Shasta in 6 or so years.It started out renzy ishing with top water ish busting all around the boat.Then it would stop or a little while then a renzy again.This went on or the irst two or so hours.Poppers did OK as well as well as cranks.The shad were about 1/2 the size o the popper.I should have brought my ly rod!The jig did not work or me,I threw it a lot probably too much.I then resulted to a 4 1/2'' worm with a chartruse tail.It won me a dollar or big ish o the day o 1.7lbs.Shasta is a very beautiul lake with black bears and such, but I can't wait to get back on my home water where 1.7 would not make the smallest o ive.We ended up with 30 spots hal or so o which were keepers.Oh I also cought ish on a {tiny}brush hog.
    City: Manteca

    Tips: Sutle top water early morning,very light line or longer casts.small plastics on darthead 15' to 20'

Sunday, September 29th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 71.4

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: lake is down to 79.6 t, water still murky especially in upper arms, shad are now more spread out in main body areas with no movement back into the coves yet, I have been catching ish(mostly dinks) o o rock with the MGM 109 4 inch being the best producer but unable to ind any sizable ish with the average running around a pound and a quarter, hot weather appears to be over and we have clouds moving in, especially in the morning, today was heavy overcast with no wind until 0830 when it came up out o the south to 10mph, jones valley ramp has about had it and down to one lane, it is easier to launch o the end o the hump in the dirt, as reported by Gene, my team partner,Bryce ruled the day on Friday with what appeared to be a 1.6. It has , however, been rumored that Susan caught the ish and gave it to him so he wouldn't eel so bad as Gene has been puting the whooping on him lately. Cooler weather should perk things up a bit. most my ish today came between 0830 and 0930 (8) with one at 7am and the last at 1030 am.
    City: Redding

    Tips: hands down, the MGM 109 4 and 6 inch is the top producer.

Friday, September 27th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 70-73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAUNCHED AT JONES VALLEY AT 6:30AM, THE RAMP HAS NARROWED DOWN TO ONE BOAT AT TIME AND IF THEY DONT MOVE THE DOCK IT WILL BE SECONDAR Y RAMP LAUNCHING AT JONES VALLEY. BRYCE FULLER AND THE BLOND (BRYCES WIFE SUSAN), ALONG WITH JERRY WALTMAN SHOWED UP BRIGHT EYED AND BUSHY TAILED READY TO GO FOR THE GOLD. WITH A BLAST OFF THAT WOULD MAKE BASSMASTERS PROUD WE HEADED TO UNCHARTED WATERS. MY WIFE THE (COSCO QWEEN) GINGER AND I HEAD FOR OUR FIRST STOP TO USE A NEW PLASTIC BAIT TO GET THE KICKER . FISHED TILL 9:AM BEFORE WE HAD OUR FIRST BITE AND MISSED THE FISH SO NOW GETTING A LITTLE CONCERNED WE STARTED GOING BACK TO THE FISH GETTING MGM WORMS AND STARTED GETTING BIT BUT NO SIZE.HEADED TO THE WEIGH IN AND MET UP WITH JERRY AND BRYCE AND SUSAN .THE WEIGH IN DIDNT TAKE LONG,AFTER THE SMOKE CLEARED BRYCE CAME OUT ON TOP WITH A 1.4 LB (WHAT FISH) SPOTTED BASS. MY FISH WEIGHED A WHOPPING 1.3 AND JERRY CAME IN WITH A KICKER 1.2 LBER. SUSAN DIDNT WEIGH BUT I KNOW IT WILL BE DIFFERNT NEXT TIME. I THINK HER HUSBAND KEEP HER IN TO DEEP OF WATER IN THE BACK SEAT ALL DAY. JERRY WENT HOME AND WE KEEP FISHING TELL 4:PM. THE BITE WAS BETTER IN THE AFTERNOON BUT STILL NO BIG FISH. GINGER TOOK THE HONORS WITH A KEEPER SPOT. MOST FISH THAT WE CAUGHT CAME ON MGM BLUE GOASTS AND THE MGM 109. WE CAUGHT MOST OF THE FISH IN THE SNAGS AND MUD LINES IN 10 TO 25 FT OF WATER. GETTING TO SEE A LITTLE LESS JET SKIES AND WATER SKIERS BUT STILL PLENTY OF HOUSE BOATS. LITTLE NIPPY IN THE MORNING BUT VERY NICE CONDITIONS. HAD A LOT OF FUN WITH BRYCE,SUSAN JERRY WALTMAN LOOKING FORWARD TO ANOTHER OUTING AND JERRY IF YOU READ THIS BRING YOUR WIFE NEXT TIME WE NEED SOMEONE THAT CAN CATCH SOME FISH .
    City: ANDERSON

    Tips: WE TEXAS RIGGED AND DART HEADED WHAT FISH WE CAUGHT ON 4 AND 6 INCH WORMS . BLUES AND CRAWDAD COLORS, PINKS AND SHAD COLORS. DEPTH OF WATER FROM THE BANK TO 30 FT

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    Water Temp: 70.3 to 73.4

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Met up with Gene and Ginger and Jerry or a little riendly competition. Well, I must say it was my best day on Shasta. The ish were small but the transplant rom Salinas caught the biggest ish, maybe 1.4 spot. The bite was airly slow. We put in at Jones Valley at 6:30AM and met back at noon, DID I MENTION I CAUGHT THE BIGGEST FISH. I igure I need to blow my horn while I can, because next time will be dierent I'm sure. Ater noon Jerry let or home and Gene, Ginger and o course my Blonde went back out till 4:00PM, dierent results this time, Ginger took big ish with about 1.3 spot. We had a great time, at least some o us did. Oh yes, I out ished the Blonde in the back 10 to 3. Looking orward to our next outing.
    City: Cottonwood

    Tips: Had one on a black topwater, the rest came on jigs at 25'. Ater noon a couple came out o mud lines.

Sunday, September 22nd, 2002

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    Water Temp: 71 to 75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: In at Jones Valley at 4:00 PM. ran up to Stein Creek area and only had a ew bites. Meet up with Gene and Ginger and set up to catish at dark. Like Gene reported the Blondes kicked butt. Started bass ishing about midnight and got bit right o. Caught 18 to 2lbs. on 3/8 oz. jigs at 20 to 30 eet. Darker colors seemed to work better. The weather was perect or a night o ishing on beautiul Lake Shasta with some great riends. Next time you see Gene ask him why he ishes in his stocking eet. Oh yes, the blonde in the back caught 10 o the 18 bass and hers were larger ish.
    City: Cottonwood

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    Water Temp: 76 MAIN LAKE

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAUNCHED AT JONES VALLEY. THE RAMP IS CLOSE TO ONE LANE. IT WONT BE LONG BEFORE WE WILL BE LAUNCHING AT THE SECONDARY RAMP. WE WERE IN THE WATER AT 1:30 PM. HEADED TO THE MAIN LAKE AND FISHED MUD LINES AND CUTS WITH DROP SHOTTING AND TEXAS RIGGED WORMS IN 15 TO 30 FT OF WATER. NOT MANY BITES BUT MANAGED TO BOAT 3 NICE KEEPERS. LEFT THE MAIN LAKE AND HEADED TO THE UPPER PIT IN THE STIEN CREEK AREA TO MEET UP WITH BRYCE FULLER AND HIS WIFE SUSAN. THEY WERE DOING ABOUT THE SAME AS US NOT TO GOOD. ABOUT THE MOST EXCITING THING UP THERE WAS WATCHING A BROWN BEAR WALKING ALONG THE BANK LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO EAT.IF YOUR GOOD AT CATCHING FISH UNDER BALLS OF SHAD THATS THE PLACE TO BE THERES BILLONS OF SHAD BUSTING THE SURFACE IN THAT AREA. WE LEFT AND CAME DOWN IN THE BLUE CANYON AREA AND SET UP TO FISH CATFISH FOR A WHILE AND THE BLONDS PUT ON A SHOW YOU HOW ITS DONE CLASS. GINGER CAUGHT TWO THE BIGGEST IN THE 8 TO 9 LB CLASS AND SUSAN SET THE HOOK AND BOATED A 7 LBER . BRYCE AND I GOT ZIP.WILL GET THEM NEXT TIME ( MAYBE). THE BIG TIME FULL MOON CAME OUT AND WE STARTED FISHING BASS GOING BACK TO JONES VALLEY. THE BLOND WAS WORMING FROM THE BANK OUT AND CATCHING A FEW I WAS THROWING A POES CRANK BAIT IN THE ROCKY BANKS AND POINTS AND CATCHING ONE HERE AND THERE, NOTHING REAL BIG.BUCKAROO AND SUSAN WERE DOING REAL WELL AND IM SURE HE WILL TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT IN HIS FISHING REPORT. WE GOT BACK TO THE RAMP AT 2AM AND WE HEADED HOME. AGAIN ITS GREAT FISHING SHASTA AT NIGHT PUT USE CAUTION RUNNING A BOAT AT NIGHT THERES PLENTY OF HUMPS STARTING TO SHOW, ESPECIALY FIRST TIMERS ON THE LAKE.
    City: ANDERSON

    Tips: SAME COLORS AS LAST FISHING REPORT, BLUES ANY THING CRAWDAD COLOR, PINK OR RAINBOW ON THE DROP SHOT .

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: This is a question to anyone out there.Has anyone had an experience with Bryan Oakley and any knowledge o how to reach him?
    City: Dunsmuir

Tuesday, September 17th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Shasta Cascade Bass Anglers held a 14 hr night tournament on Sept 14 & 15. Eleven boats Blasted o at 6.00 pm. First place weighed in 15.73 lbs on the golden rule. Big ish weighed 4.27 lbs. The weather was great all night and the bite was on all nigth. I you are looking or a good club call Jim Burger Club President @ 224-9601.
    City: Red Blu

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    Water Temp: 76.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Should have stayed home, got in at Jones Valley at 0550, air temp 58, nobody there with one rig coming in behind me. went over into Squaw Creek or 2 small ish at 1.4 on a shasta crawler in root beer, one was in 5 t the other was 28 t deep, I could not ind any shad thus no ish. The new bass guys on Saturday ran about a 1.3 lb average except or the winner who was right at 2 lbs per, things are slow the past ew days, not many boats out this am but still some ski boats and houseboats, water lat as a pancake.
    City: Redding

Monday, September 16th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 69.8 to 74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: In at Jones Valley at 6:00 AM. Meet up with Gene and Ginger rom Anderson or a day o ishing and a little riendly competition. The rules were simple, the biggest ish between the our o us wins. Well, to make a long story short, Gene had a 2.5 spot. The best I could do was a 1.8. Both the blondes couldn't seem to get it together. Better luck next time, and believe me there will be a next time, only with a dierent winner. We started out at Jones Valley point where I lost one right o. We then headed up to the upper Pit and had pretty good luck wormin the trees in about 25 to 30 eet. My 1.8 came on a jig straight over the boat. I ended up with 8 total and Susan had 4, at least I out did her this time. It was a beautiul day with not too much boat traic. We had a great time with Gene and Ginger. OK Gene, lets here your report now.
    City: Cottonwood

Friday, September 13th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Where are all the ishing reports???
    City: Redding

Monday, September 9th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Jerry broke down and elt sorry or me so he decided to take me ishing...haha. We put in at 6:15 am cruised over to clikaputi. caught a couple dinks. Took o to Pit arm caught a hal dozen small spots, ish o the day was all Jerry who stuck a 2 pounder in the boat. Jerry was a great guide, a guy could learn a lot rom him. I really appreciate the ishing trip Jerry, i had a lot o un.
    City: Redding

Sunday, September 8th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 74.3

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: In the water at Jones Valley at 6:am started at lower end o the squaw arm and started catching ish on texas rigged worms, no two pounders.headed up to the end o the squaw and run into a war zone. there were house boats in very cove and heavy metal , rap,and a mix o other music roaring up the canyon.the blond and i seen a good rock point right in the center o the war zone, and decided to give it a try. what a surprise we started catching ish and even broke my line on a good one. we didnt stay to long between jet skis ,tubers, water skiers and no country western music to listen to we decided to hit the road out o there we moved back down the squaw arm in the timber and stated hooking ish again. we must have caught 50 ish rom the start to the end and maybe had 11lbs in a seven ish stringer. the blond beat me by one ish, we used 4 inch and six inch worms all day and the color didnt make much dierence.blues, purple, pink most came rom the bank to about 20t o water.bigger ish were tighter to the bank or on structure.the mud lines were very productive and there was lots o them with the traic on the lake.pulled o the lake and ound a suprise at the ramp. one boat trailer blocking ramp with a lat tire on the trailer with the boat on it. another with a dead battery couldnt get it loaded. another exciting sunday on PEACE FULL SHASTA LAKE, COME ON WINTER.
    City: Anderson

    Tips: ish rocky secondary points , timber with the worms and jigs and you should have a sore arm at the end o the day.