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Saturday, May 25th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: FISH SPOOKS,JITTERBUGS,1/2oz.SPINNERBAITSW/WHITE BLADES,LAZOR TROUT RIP,SUSPENDING CLOWN IN ROGUE EARLY & LATE IN DAY.FISH ALL TREES!!!!!.ESPECIALLY WILLOWS!!!!. WHEN BITE SLOWS GO TO DO NOTHING RED BANKS,THROW MGM-156,109,157,PURPLE WEENIES,GREEN WEENIES,OXBLOOD,CLEAR W/BLACK FLECK W/CHART TAIL,BLUE GHOST-T-RIGGED,IT HAS BEEN YEARS SINCE IHAVE BEEN ORDERED HERE FOR A GOOD STOMP!!!!THANKS FOR THE E-MAIL (MIKE3317)I HAVE SOMETHING FOR YOU.
    City: SALEM

    Tips: REMEMBER OUR FALLEN VETS,AND THOSE WHO SERVE.

Friday, May 24th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 66.7-67.9

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went in at bailey cove, air temp 89, lake at 12.75 t down no wind, got in at 515pm and ran up the mccloud past hirz bay, started throwing jigs and caught dink ater dink, got into some shade on the west bank and threw some blades or 18 smal ish and one a skinny 2.6, had 17 on the jigs ishing the huge mudlines that have ormed with the increased traic, lots o holiday traic but no problems or me, not much above moore creek campground, water getting very murky. caught 2 others on a MGM 157 6inch but I didn't throw it much and only in the cleaner water.
    City: Redding

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    Water Temp: 64 to 68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: In at Antlers at 7:45am. The crowds haven't arrived yet. Met up with John,Don, and Cameron at Lakeshore Marina. They are down rom Wash. to enjoy Shasta or the holiday. Gave John a ew MGM worms in assorted colors and away we went. Fished the steep banks rom Lakeshore to Salt Creek Inlet. Nothing but small ish. The blonde in the back did manage a 2.0 on a blue/green senko type worm. Salt and pepper was a productive color also. We ished the senko type worms weightless and right on the bank. Later in the day switched to jigs and went deeper, 30'. Probably caught 35 total with at least 5 or 6 being smallmouth. The boat traic started to pick up so out we came at 3:15PM. When we crossed the Pit River Bridge at 4:15 we counted 50 houseboats. I'll return to the water ater the holiday.
    City: Cottonwood

Thursday, May 23rd, 2002

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    Water Temp: 65.8-67.4

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well, the pressure drop and weather o a ew days ago have put the ish deeper and most are suspended, in at bailey cove at 445 pm with the wie and boat owner and over near birdhouse point in the lower mccloud, started throwing about 15t deep and nothing, the wie missed one in about 20 t at 545 and I started going deeper and inally ound some ish at 35 t. shited to worms and used the 157 MGM 4inch or two as the sun went down, lots o boat traic and many houseboats pulling out o the marinas with college kids on board, both ish were skinny as a rail and went about 1.5. Another weather ront is coming or the weekend so things will probably continue to be slow as we approach a normal summer pattern, largemouth should be going pretty good i you can ind them, out at 815 pm, air temp 79degrees, water very murky ater the rain and increased boat traic.
    City: Redding

Tuesday, May 21st, 2002

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    Water Temp: 64.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: 2 days o rain and I had to go, waited till noon and the weather started to break so I took o or centimudi, in the water at 1pm, temp at 57, overcast and spitting a little rain witha a south wind at 6 mph, lake down to nearly 12 t, ran to Big Backbone at Shoemaker creek and managed two on jigs, both dinks, let at 2:30 and went around the scorner into the little squaw and back in about 1/4 mile, tied on a MGM 151 black magic 5 1/2 curly tail and got six on three points in 35 t o water, the pressure drop and weather change has pushed them deeper, went all the way to the end o little squaw but no more bites, light rain o and on but pleasant out with very little traic and only 6 rigs in the lot at centimudi, got out at 4 pm, air temp at 61 and no more rain, the debris at centimudi is pretty much out o the water now and piled up on ther ramp, my partner and I ished the won bass at oroville last saturday and inished 8th and one spot out o the money with 8.58 lbs, they paid down to 8.59 lbs and my pro rom won bass pro/am last year was just ahead o us, Wayne, I think you should buy me and my partner a beer. most ish today were suspended ove 30-40 t o water at about 12-20 t, the spawn or the spots appears to be over in the main body o the lake.
    City: Redding

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Shasta, May16-20. Clear and sunny the irst couple o days o a houseboat trip. Picked up a ew o the pound to 1 1/2 pound spots on 1/8 oz jigs and 4" worms in morning dawn, green, blue, oxblood. The storm moved in Sunday morning and that aternoon we put 100+ spots in the boats in a couple hours o ishing. jigs and mostly oxblood and blue or purple 4" worms. 20 eet o water under the boat and casting to shore. Fish were hitting most beore it hit bottom. Light taps and ish swimming with the lure. Nothing over 1 1/2 pounds but what a blast!! Bringing ultralite next time. Same pattern Monday morning in the rain. Brought in the boats to whitecaps and hail. Good ood, good company, good ishing.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: 1/8 jigs cast to shore in rocky shores. Nothing on mud banks. 4" worms in oxblood or darker colors.

Saturday, May 18th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 62-63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Sac arm rom about 0700 to 1100. Used cranks,spinnerbaits and topwaters. Many blowups on topwaters, but nothing but a couple o dinks. Got about 20 in the boat, mostly dinks, maybe 7 keepers. None over 2 lbs. Only 2 smallies, rest spots. Quite dierent than this time last year.
    City: Redding

    Tips: Some ish hugging shore, others cruising 20+ plus o shore near points. Cover a lot o ground.

Friday, May 17th, 2002

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    Water Temp: n.a.

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Jones Valley at 5:30 a.m., decided to ish the lower end o Jones or a change. Threw spook till about 1 hour ater sunrise,only had about 4 blow ups but no hook ups.That was o.k. because I pitched a senko ater each miss and caught a ish.Caught 32 or the day with 18 being keepers.Nothing big today ,ish up to 1 1/2 . Lot o small bucks still looking or a emale. Caught 30 on senko and 2 on crank bait.Water was rough ater 9:00 a.m. because o all the water skiers and wave runners.Really tough tying to get boat out (no manners) covers it all.Short time let beore the summer crowd starts up.O water 1:00 p.m..
    City: Corning

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: On the water by 5:45 a.m. Fished Pit Armuntil 9:30a.m.Caught approx. 20 keepers. Hadseveral blowups on topwater but no hookups.All came on plastics. Senkos and Predatorworm slugos. The slugo accounted or my 3best ish,all over 2lbs. with the biggesttipping the scales @ 3.6lbs.
    City: redding

    Tips: Literally deadsticking the bait. The slugois a 6" avocado/rootbeer w/red lake. Theish really have'nt seen this bait. Lots o pressure on the ish so you need to give themsomething new. 50% o the ish caught on slugo swallowed it. Phil's prop carry's somePredator baits. I they don't have what youare looking or just ask. They will orderor you. Good luck! P.s.- Had to keep yourdistance rom structure otherwise no ish.Make long casts....

Wednesday, May 15th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 61.5-62.6

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Woke up at 2am and knew i had to go or my irst spring night trip, in the water at Bailey cove at 0245, temp 55 with 6 mph wind out o the west, beautiul sky ull o stars and I started throwing right rom the ramp, at 3amm had my irst dnik on a jig and tossed my next cast into a tree hanging over the waters edge, pulle it out and it got gobbled up as soon as it hit the water or dink #2 and that was that or the next 2 hours with the exception o a ew taps. Ran over near shallow point at 0500 and started throwing a rip bait and got 18 between 0503 and 0640 witha 2.2 smallmouth, all came right o the berach, i I didn't get within a oot o shore ,no bite, wind came up a little more at 0630 and I ripped 3 more smallmouth and picked up a worm rod. Tied on a 3/8 oz darter head I just started making and a 5 inch MGM 151 (black magic) curly tail and caught 11 more in the next hour to 1.6. irst time I have ever thrown the 151. the 2 early jig ish hit at the surace and the rip ish were right on the bank, the worm ish came out o 12-20t and mostly on gentle sloping red mud banks and the 3/8 oz darter head is real nice when throwing into a 15 knot wind. got out at 0830 temp up to 66 and the lake has dropped just past 10 t. only saw 2 other boats and the college kids didn't make much o a ruckus last week with only 500 showing up versus the usual 2,000, water very clear down to 25t.
    City: Redding

Tuesday, May 14th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 60 to 64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: In at Packers at 7:30 AM. Tried to stay out o the wind. Fished Packers Bay and north side o main channel across rom Bridge Bay. Caught a total o 23. The blonde in the back got beat again. Largest spot went 2.7 on a pumpkin with black lakes senko ished weightless right on the bank. Jigs and a variety o MGM worms in various colors also produced ish. Out by 4:00PM.
    City: Cottonwood

Monday, May 13th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 58.5-62.2

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: cold ront moved through last night with a small pressure drop, in the water at 0520 at Bailey Cove with my neighbor, Walt. Ran over to Shallow point in the McCloud tossing jigs on the short points north o the point but getting hit short at irst in 21-28t, no rip bite and I went deeper or a ew dinks and one keeper in 35t, Walt had the ist in the boat but it was short. Moved over to Ycotti and went all the way into the back, no ish and only 2 cruisers seen, moved back out to the ront on main lake points or a total o 6 with one small largemouth and the bite shut down at 0915, didn't thow any worms but wished i had. It appears the spawn in the lower McCloud and main body is over or nearly so, might go urther up into one o the arms wednesday. I expect high pressure to build back in and bring the rip bite back and move the ish a bit shallower.
    City: Redding

Thursday, May 9th, 2002

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    Water Temp: n.a.

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out o Jones Valley ,had a great day ishing was great.I was not going to post ater seeing 2 guys in a cove in Jones Valley,one was holding up about a 5lb. unspawned emale. I watched them take a picture,then hook it on a stringer. They were ishing beds with live minnows.Maybe there shoud be some kind o law during to stop the larger ish being harvested during the spwawn. Catch & realese. I they want a meal there are pleanty o 12inch ish.
    City: Corning

Monday, May 6th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Someone lost a 22" 7.00 lb Spotted Bass rom their stringer last Thursday. One o our group ound it (still alive) loating in the middle o the lake near Jones Valley. You know who you are! Your riends don't believe your story but I do! E-mail me directly, we have pictures to back up your story! Our houseboat was in Blue Creek rom May 1 thru May 5. 10 ishermen in our group. We ished the Pit River primarily, Squaw a little. Bite was slow in the morning, and picked up during the day. Evening bite was the best or us. This was a consistent pattern on all baits. Seems the ish need to warm up.
    City: santa rosa

    Tips: Live bait (minnows and crawlers) were hot. On Thursday, between 3 pm and 7 pm I released over 35 bass ranging rom 11 to 15.5 inches. The most productive plastics (worms, grubs, tubes all worked) were salt and pepper or "slime" green. Spinners and other "hard" bait picked up a ew. Forget trolling (although it could break loose any minute), I spent many, many hours ishing or one 'Bow and one Chinook.

Sunday, May 5th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 61.7

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: In the water at 0515 with a club going out at Bailey Cove, air temp 54, water at 8.90 t and alling gradually, no wind, ran over to Shallow point in the McCloud and worked the stretch o bank north to curl creek, I never ish this piece o water much so I thought I would give it a try,stayed with it rom 0530 till 0830 or 38 to 1.8 with 15 on jigs, and 14 on the MGM 156, the rest came on the MGM 26, both worms were in the 6 inch variety, mostly dinks and no spawned out emales, 7 were smallmouth and 6 o those came o o one point across rom Ycotti, boating activity picked up quite a bit this am and I let at 915am, air temp at 61 and the lot was ull at Bailey when I got back, skiers and jet skiers starting to show. ound most early ish on main lake points and as the wind picked up the ishing got better out o 18 to 22 t.
    City: Redding

Thursday, May 2nd, 2002

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    Water Temp: 58.6--61.6

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out o Jones Valley this am at 0545, air temp 49 lake down to 8.78t, slight wind out o the north, ran over into blue canyon or three on a spook but not a lot o ish back in the back, went to Arbulckle and stuck 15 with one going 2.2 on jigs all in under 12 t o water. tons o cruisers and some bedded ish but I let the bedded ish alone, never been much o a bed ishing type. Ran back south to clickapudi or three more around some willows on the MGM 156 but no size, got back to jones valley at 1010 air temp at 63 and a nice guy gave me a lit to the top o the hill, I drove him back down to pull out.
    City: Redding

Wednesday, May 1st, 2002

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    Water Temp: 57 to 60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: In at Bailey Cove at 7:30AM. Had the pleasure o having my Dad with me this morning. He's up rom Salinas enjoying our sunshine and no og, and great ishing. First stopped at Ycotti and threw a 1/4 oz. jig and bang, irst cast, boated a 12incher. The race was on, I boated about 5 or 6 beore dad got the hang o the sot bite. There was no tap, the line just got heavy and the ish was there. Followed Jerry, my team partner to Nosini and he went down on side and we went down the other, boating numerous small ish. At 11:00AM Jerry headed back home and we headed to Ellery Creek area. From 11:00 to 11:30 we caught ish on almost every cast along the east side bank. We ished back down to Nosini and by then Dad's arms are about to all o rom catching ish. Out at 3:15PM. IT WAS A FANTASTIC DAY ON THE WATER FOR A SON AND HIS FATHER.(and the son gave his dad a ishing lesson.)
    City: Cottonwood

    Tips: Jigs at 20 to 30 eet. Worms later in the day.MGM #156, 157,127 and 11/with chart. tail....Sot bite, eel extra weight and set the hook.

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    Water Temp: 57.6-59.1

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got in the water at 0525 at Bailey Cove, irst one there this am, air temp 45, water at 8.69 t and starting to drop, heavy overcast with slight drizzle and lat water, pulled o the loat and threw a spook right o or three quick ish on the irst batch o willows on the let going out, tried a crank bait with no takers, ran to the caverns erry or 4 more on the spook in the willows in the back, moved over to Ycotti and went into the back or 11 on my jigs, all small but legal, saw my team partner out in ront o Ycotti and moved over to say hi to his Dad rom Salinas, he showed me his new stick and o we went upstream to Nosoni, caught 3 out in ront and went back inside or 11 more and all small, best was only 1.6 and no emales, did see one on a nest that might go 4 with a bunch o little guys around her, picked o 2 o those but she just swam o, went most o the way back in or 3 more with another 1.7. caught about 30 but no size, three on worms, the new 158 by MGM called the hunter, the rest on jigs, lots o ish in the willows and cruisers galore. out at 115, air temp at 54, college kids due on mothers day, get up here and ish beore they show up and enjoy 50 plus ish per day as long as you can hit the lake with whatever your throwing!
    City: Redding

Tuesday, April 30th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took 11 guys on houseboat or 6th annual trip. Friday wentto Riverview and caught some trout, SAT made our way to O'Brien and you iceskate on top o the houseboat, weather was not good.Sunday the guys started catching bass like crazy. Should have the house boat in by 2.00 pm got in at 5.00.Too much un Me and my partner had to illet 24 bass or the city olks all legal.rom 12" to 15"Top wter ell o and switched to plastic grubs
    City: Lakehead

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    Water Temp: 58-61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished annual Forest Service tourney this past weekend.Some heavy weights were brought to the scales with over32# the winner. Reaction bite went down with the weather.Plastics were the rule. My In-laws ished well and tookseventh place throwing Senkos and Predator worms.Congratulations Steve and Jim!
    City: redding

    Tips: Senkos in Watermelon/black & Greenpumpkin/black.3" Predator worms in colors #758 & #790. The #758 is aBluegill pattern that works real well when targeting post spawn ish. Good luck!