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Thursday, September 7th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: in the water at jones valley at 6pm out at 1000pm, air temp 91 going in and 67 coming out, or 12 to 2 1/2 lbs on the islands near squaw point, mike was using a brown and black 5 inch worm texas rigged, i used my black and gold yamamotos on a 3/8 ounce jig head, mike caught 7, one dink, i caught 4, one dink and his son had a couple on a pumpkin pepper jig and a black and gold yamamoto, no one out there ater 730pm and they didin't get going until around 830pm. water clearing up nicely, visibility good to about 10 t now. the moon is coming on now and I expect things to slow down a bit, shad very busy on the surace all over and being chased by bass, the shad up on top are small, rom about 1 inch to an inch and a hal, some o the bass were spitting up chunks o crawdads, the other were unloading small shad, the ish have generally moved o the shore or the time being at dark and are hanging out in 12-20t o water with most on the bottom and a ew suspended, water starting to drop again but only about 3-6 inches per day, down to 57.25 t today. A beautiul cool evening.
    City: Redding

Tuesday, September 5th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Back out o Jones Valley at 6pm, out o the water at 8pm, or 7 in the boat, one dink, kept three that inhaled my jig, they have moved o the banks into about 20 t o water but they were just banging the heck out o the Yamamoto's in salt and pepper,the wie caught one, she made me put that in, I was swimming my jigs back to the boat and just barely ticking them along the tops o the rocks and WHAM! water is clearing up ast, no traic at all,,,, they all went home. Temp dropping daily with all the cool weather we have had, supposed to heat up again over the weekend, lake at 57 t down, the level rose a little with the 4inches o rain we got. Wind has inally shited around to the north, should be clear and bright or the next week or so.
    City: Redding

Sunday, September 3rd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Weather cool and cloudy, air temp 68 at 6PM, in at jones valley at 6 out at 9PM, went to Blue Canyon irst or and hour and a hal, 3 keepers, back out to Squaw point and the islands to the east or 12 more, just a ew dinks, in 2-15 t o water on Ymamotos jigs, the bass were ulll o small shad, none had any shrimp in them, started raining again at 730 pm and that drove the last o the skiers o the lake, can't wait or tuesday when we get the lake back! there is a little bit o surace debris all over rom the recent rains but mostly small stu. lake at 57.60 t down rom ull pool.
    City: Redding

Saturday, September 2nd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: they weather has made a dramatic change, 35 degree drop in temps, 4 inches o rain on the lake and the lake has cooled o about 3 degrees bringing the ishing to a screeching halt or most that I talked to which was only three guys, lots o lightning. things are supposed to ease up on the 3rd and I hope to be out weather permitting, lots o olks showed up or the labor day weekend, most have been staying inside their houseboats except or a 2 hour period this aternoon. got 2 1/2 inches o rain in one hour yesterday, lots o junk was washed into the lake. lake level at 57 1/3 eet dropping at less than 3-4 inches per day now.
    City: Redding

Tuesday, August 29th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: got out early today with the wie, in the water at 645pm and out at 9pm, 5 in the boat, all legal to 2 1/2 lbs, no dinks, ish ound in 12-15 t o water o o the small islands just east o Squaw Pt. in the Pit, did run up to the area o Flat Creek or about 1hr, lots o ish on the ish inder but no hits so went back downstream to Squaw Pt, ish caught on twin tail skirted salt & pepper 5 inch yamamoto jigs on 3/8 oz jigheads, got them bouncing and swimming the jigs out rom the islands, guess I'll start ishing a lot earlier to avoid the small bass. She is standing over my shoulder complaining that I put in that she didn't catch any, well, she didn't! She went ishing,I went CATCHING! Champdriver, don't orget to e-mail me beore u come up.
    City: Redding

Monday, August 28th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 77

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: out o Jones Valley at 830pm or 14 in the boat by midnight, lots o missed taps on nearly every cast, lots o dinks chasing my jig, only two legal ish, had trouble getting down through the small ish, lake down to nearly 57t, water starting to cool, smoke coming in rom the Storrie Fire over near Oroville, used a buzz bait or about ten minutes, it was hit repeatedly but was too big or the little guys to grab on to, put a spot light on the water and watched at least 40 5 inch bass try to attack the buzz bait, shrimp spawn deinitely over.
    City: Redding

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    Water Temp: 77

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: out o Jones Valley at 830pm or 14 in the boat by midnight, lots o missed taps on nearly every cast, lots o dinks chasing my jig, only two legal ish, had trouble getting down through the small ish, lake down to nearly 57t, water starting to cool, smoke coming in rom the Storrie Fire over near Oroville, used a buzz bait or about ten minutes, it was hit repeatedly but was too big or the little guys to grab on to, put a spot light on the water and watched at least 40 5 inch bass try to attack the buzz bait, shrimp spawn deinitely over.
    City: Redding

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the lake Fri., Sat and Sun. The ishing was best onmain lake points in the mornings and evenings, but I caught a ew keepers during the day as well, I just had to move rom point to point to keep the action going. I would catch 2 ish, then have to move because the bite would shut o at that point. I didn't catch a dink all weekend - strange. The biggest o the weekend was about 14", the smallest about12". Not a good outing or big ish, but a steady bite o 13"ers. Most daytime ish came on a carolina rigged 4" zoom lizard.Evening ish were caught on a texas rigged 6" lizard. Colordidn't matter so much. Most ish were spots with a largemouthhere and there.
    City: Fremont

    Tips: Slow down, and ish at 40+'. Several o my heat o the day ish were caught within stones throw o a jet ski by just being SLOWWWWW. Go easy on the trolling motor, just use to hold you in place and go Slow way down. There's ish on almost every point. I outished a lot o expensivebass boats this weekend on my crappy, rental ishingboat because I'm not araid to sit and ish deep.Good LuckJim

Saturday, August 26th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 77

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: talked to at least 15 guys today while at work, lots o small dinks being caught with only a ew keepers reported, shrimp spawn is over, lots o small shad up on the top but not much going on below them, watched my ishinder as I traveled around and the ish are spread out, ound a couple o large bait balls in 40t o water at the top o Squaw creek in Flower Gulch with some ish working them, ski traic is very heavy and the ishing is slow in those main lake areas, the upper Pit is catching most o the ishing action above the no ski buoys, the lake is down to 55 1/2 t and dropping about 6 inches per day, the temp is slowly starting to drop, down orm 80plus to about 77 in most areas, things should improve quickly ater labor day is over with.
    City: Redding

Friday, August 18th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 70's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: took a vacation to shasta....the bite was pretty slow....about 10 ish a day or so...better quality came on purple blue worms split shotted about 20 eet or so...you can get a good rip bite all day on shad pattern loating rapalas....one guy told me that he caught about 100 ish between him and his sons on a drop shot rig...????..
    City: resno

Thursday, August 17th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The shasta lake shrimp is on the surace or the spawn and the bass and trout are having a ield day, a guy rolls up next to me yesterday to inquire what the ish were chasing and was surprised that it is the shrimp. they are small, about an inch long and white, i you are coming this way get some 1/16th oz darter heads and the white skirts used or shad darts or crappie jigs and prepare or some un, the bass are small but the trout are good sized, larger bass will be below the action picking o smaller bass and trout, u might want to bring along a suspending jerk bait in a trout pattern and hang on when u get in the middle o all those shrimp, the are busy most o the day but the best action seems to be around 1030AM, lake down to 54 eet and the releases have slowed down, the salmon in the Sacramento River are on the move and the ishing should improve dramatically both above and below red blu.
    City: Redding

Monday, August 14th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 79-81

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went out o jones valley at 830pm to blue canyon, nothing there, moon on the way up so went to humps out in ront o the Fort Creek coves or 6 to 2lbs in less than 6t o water, the bite quit at 10 pm as the moon rose, went back over to the islands in jones valley, caught one more and called it quits at 130 am. everything was suspended as the evening wore on, the releases have slowed to 8,000 cm and the rate o drop is down to about a hal o a oot per day inally, used yamamoto jigs in salt and pepper, black with gold lecks and pumpkin pepper rom BPS on 3/8 oz standup jigheads, they hit anything early and wouldn't touch anything later on.
    City: Redding

Friday, August 11th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: not a ishing report, but a report on ramp conditions at Shasta, lake is down to 52 eet and the ollowing conditions are current:the south ramp at Bridge Bay is closed, the north ramp is open and both courtesy docks have been moved to the north rampFreeway Bay ramp o o the o'brien exit is closed, Packers Bay is open and will be ok down to 90eetCentimundi is open and ok to 3 lanes to 95 eetHirz Bay north is out o the water, Hirz Bay south is ok with 3 lanes down to 75 eet and 2 down to 95 eetJones Valey is close to being down to 3 lanes but is good down to drought conditions near 200 eetAntlers Public ramp is good to 75 eet. Numerous islands are coming up causing problems with groundings daily, The Pit arm is showing a lot o stumps that haven't been seen in the last10 years, especialy above Brown's canyon, be careul or pay the price!The Bridge Bay area around the north end o Beaver Island is coming out o the water, go around the south end or access to the rest o the lake, The Gap on the north side o No Name is just about out o the water, it is presently 5 t deep, do not shoot the gap at the south end o Toupee Island or you will be buying lower units, more to ollow as conditions change. jerry
    City: Redding

Monday, August 7th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: returned to the area o Marshmallow point at 830pm and had numerous hits but the ish were hitting short, Mark and I could not get anything in the boat except or 4 just legal ish, very rustrating, we ished during the beginnings o a lightning storm which never made it to us but sent a lot o wind our way, ish suspended in 3-12 t o water in a 6 inch to 2 t chop, hard to eel the bites and they were sot, air temp dropped to a comy 77, water at 80 degrees and what a light show we had most o the night, all lighting o to the east and northeast, we must have had 40 taps a piece but no manner o crawling or bouncing the jigs could get those ish to stay on. Ended up over by the Gap or a ew and went home at 2AM. Lake down to 50 eet and the releases appear to be slowing down. The lake is chock ull o small bass o the year and they just smack anything thrown in.
    City: Redding

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: out o Jones Valley at 545Am to Blue Canyon, 6 in the boat to 2 3/4 lbs, no dinks but everything came to a screeching halt at 0730. air temp at 530 was 74, at 8AM it was already up to 90, supposed to hit 108 today, used a green pumpkin twin tail skirted jig (BPS type) nothing on the yamamotos, all ish came out o less than 12t o water, 4 were right on the bank. The jones Valley Marina has moved out to end up just across rom the Jones Valley Public ramp, the 5mph buoys are a 100 yards out past the ramp now, water way down or this time o year, we will have launching problems within a month as some ramps won't be usable. lots o problems or the olks not used to the lower levels, groundings are getting to be a daily occurence.BE CAREFUL.
    City: Redding

Sunday, July 30th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 75 to 80 degree

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hit the Jones Valley area around 4 pm Sunday ishing rom shore in the Clickapudi Trailhead area. Due to the low water, the willow tree areas here are almost out o the water. I ishing a our inch Blue Ghost pattern on a 1/64th ounce weight in 6 to 8 eet o water. I hit 3 bass in 15 minutes. Two were small ish about 10 inches, but one was a little over 2.5 lbs. Lots o small shad in the vicinity to the trees. I tried a Muddler Minnow streamer or some bluegill and and hit a 1.5 lb spot. Fly ishing or bass is cool too.Being that it was Sunday, there were a lot o jet skis and ski boats out. This made the water muddy in spots, but there are still are some protected areas to get some ish inside the inlet.Just or the catishing ans out there....the catishing is great. I hit 6 ish on anchovies in one hour rom 10pm to 11 pm. The ish are in only 10 eet o water o the natural points.Something has to be done about the heavy silting that all o these jet skis are causing to the banks. The repeated stern wave action that these little crat kick up is going to have an impact on the bass population o Shasta as well as the other lakes in the area. Some kind o compremise needs to be made.
    City: Redding

    Tips: Early morning or topwater using injured minnows, zara spooks, or Rebels ished slowly on top. Blue Ghost and OxBlood magic worms are still producing in 10 to 25 eet o water near the exposed points and around the willow trees. Don't rule out using live small minnows this time o the year. I know, I know....their not a lure.For the catishing crowd....anchovies cut up to the 2" size are working really well now. My biggest cat Sunday night was 4 lbs.I'll be back this weekend or some more ishing. See you out there.

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    Water Temp: 80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: meet up with Scott Lagan rom Newark up here or a houseboat vacation and we went out at 9pm, air temp 86, water down 46t to an area near Deadman's Gulch on the Sac arm, and over by Marshmallow Point or 35 in the boat, six went to 2 1/2 lbs and Scott nailed a 5 1/2 pound spot at straight-up midnight on my usual jigs, had a great time and Scott and I were whooping it up when he got the big bass. o the water at 2:10 AM. Most o the marinas are in the process o moving their stu out rom the banks because o the dropping water levels, it is being drawn down at the rate o approx 1 inch per hour. Will hit 108 degrees in the morning, so the ishing at night is the only way to go unless u don't mind boiling ur brains.
    City: Redding

Wednesday, July 26th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 79

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went out o jones valley again, in the water at 9pm and out at 1130pm, with 8 in the boat, all dinks with only one legal ish, they were smacking my jigs as soon as they hit the water and had many(over 30 ) that hit short and tore o the tails, hdd a lot o good size ish on the inder but couldn't get down to them through the small ones, I only had a cast or two when something didn't hit the jig, it all came to a halt about 11pm, couldn't get anything to hit ater that. One other guy working the same area with worms, said he hadn't been touched or 2 hours. water down to 42.5 eet and dropping ast, lots o hazardous humps and bumps coming up all over so be careul especially in the dark.
    City: Redding

Saturday, July 22nd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: in the water monday evening at 915pm, should have started a little earlier, 8 in the boat in 20 minutes then they quit hitting my jigs, lots o smoke settled in rom the ires over near oroville, the shrimp spawn is coming to a halt and they have taken o or deeper water, upper arms are warming up as the water drops, ddown to 54.5 eet and the releases have really slowed down, Labor day coming up and then the lake will settle down, most commercial outits are booked ull or the holiday. Got some new stats on boating accident year to date, 44 atalities, hal o them were isherman, most died when they went in the water without a pd on ater being run over or striking objects, some simply ell out while standing up and ishing. pds only work when u wear them, be sae.
    City: Redding

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    Water Temp: 73-78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: saw a ellow yesterday with a nice 5lb spot o some rocks at Deadmans Gulch in the Sac.arm at approx 815pm on a crank bait, he wouldn't say which particular bait, shad are very busy on the surace in the late evening in all arms, my bite has been slow, only dinks and I am waiting or the moon to go away, lake down to 39 t and dropping rapidly, lots o stu coming up and groundings are becoming quite common with three boats yesterday hitting some rocks out in ront o Big Sugarloa Inlet in the Sac arm. Mountain lion reported on shore chasing the amily cat in Doe Cove in the O'brien Inlet, I walked the shore and ound the tracks, the housecat made it back to the houseboat just in time.
    City: Redding