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Sunday, February 6th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hello ellow anglers, I ished Shasta Lake today great weather.On the water at 6:45am out o Jones Valley headed up the Pit rattling a blue ghost on trees and points. Caught a total o 21 ish. Got one Rip ish early on shallow point,and 2 spoon ish. Rest were caught on worms.Caught one 2 lb and 1 3lb 4oz. I talk to a ellow today that ask me i had any extra oil, He had orgot to ill his up, I had a extra quart he gave me 5.00 bill or it, what a good trade.Lucky day or everybody!!! The Bassman
    City: gerber ca.

    Tips: Always check your oil, beore going to the Lake!!Kidding aside, ish slow, and let your lures set, a minute beore moving it. Have lots o patience, spawning is right around the corner.

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: bright sunny day, went to the McCloud arm, caught one at the shasta caverns erry at 40 t, on salt and pepper twin tail grub on 3/8oz jighead, caught three more at the inlet to campbell creek in the rocks at 28-30t on a green zipper worm, in both instances I ished very s l o w. Had to stay right on the bottom, bites are very sot and ish usually just pick it up and swim o, ish went to two lbs. assisted a house boater who trolled up an 8 lb plus sacramento perch/sucker. I guess he is new, he thought he had a german brown. guess he will igure it out when he cooks it.
    City: Redding

Saturday, January 29th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 47

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went to the mccloud arm and ished the area where the Shasta Caverns erry is parked, caught 3, 1 spot and 2 largemouth to 2 lbs, used a salt and pepper twin tail grub on a 3/8oz jig head, ish in 35-50 t o water, NO WIND very pleasant day.
    City: Redding

Wednesday, January 26th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: water has risen 17 t in 10 days and caused the bass to spread out, they are still in deep water, 40 to 50 t, temp has dropped 2 degrees and ish are holding around stumps in the larger deep coves. The Pit arm is the most productive, I ished the McCloud today with no ish caught, had 3 taps, my riend went into the Pit arm and caught 4 shaking dark brown 5 inch worms in a stumpy area(dark canyon) all were small and under 2 lbs. probably best to wait a ew days or things to stabilize as the weather is clearing, a lot o water is entering the lake rom the numerous creeks.
    City: redding

    Tips: I am using green pumpkin twin tail grubs on a 3/8 ounce stand up type jig head, brown worms working well either splitshotted or 1/4 to 1/2 torpedon type sinkers.

Monday, January 24th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished ABA this Sunday while preishing Saturday. Pattern was worming light colored 6" worms (morning dawn or chartruese) in 30'. Fishing south area, inding inlow o small runo and shaking. Had limit in irst hour and managed to cull or 3rd place inish with 10.5 ive ish limit. Many, many ish all day and although I heard ripping was also hot, never let the worm pattern. Weather was rain all day but it came straight down and was a very pleasant day.
    City: Wheatland

    Tips: Also ound ish o main points, again you MUST be in 30' and worms killed them.

Sunday, January 23rd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Shasta Lake is coming up now with the rain and more rain and Sunday it never stoped raining. The warm air we have had is all so keeping the water warmer than in pasted years. The ish are rom 1 oot to 100 eet. I ished Sat. and Sun. with most o my ish coming rom 8 or less eet o water. We had 5 ish or 13.66 lb on Sunday. We ished shad patterns most o the day in 4 and 6 inch worms on 1/8 oz jig heads and + oz tex. Rigs. We also took some pig&jig ish and rip ish in preish. 20 ish a day or now is a good days ishing. For now ish slow on rocky points and wood. The ish are just swimming o with the bait so don

    Tips: Fish slow and on points. As or color, it may not be to Important or now.

Friday, January 14th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 35-37

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went to Phil's beore heading out, so got a late start. Their employees said brown jigs were working well so I tried them along with some 4 inch Green Weenie, no luck at all. Three o us were ishing with various lures but we didn't even get a bite. We were in the Mcloed Arm and their must have been a tournament going on because bass boats were all around us and I saw three ish landed right in ront o us.
    City: Red Blu

    Tips: The crawdads are up and moving so anything brown is hot.

Sunday, December 26th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 59/60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Billy and I was on the water at 7.00am, put in at Jones Valley and went up the Pit Arm, the irst time that I have been out in a couple o months, had only read the reports to know what was happening on the Lake. Ater about 45 minutes, come to ind that the ishare hanging outaroung trees, in 20t to 50 t o water, we were jiggin spoons, and dart headin worms>colors, were Tequela Sunrise and Blue Ghost, best response was jiggin spoons.We caught 6 keepers, and lost one about 3 lbs.Beautiul sunny day, light wind rom the northeast. Bassman
    City: gerber, ca.

    Tips: Jiggin Spoons would be your best bet, until the ish move up, hopeully we will get some rain soon, to reshin up the water.

Sunday, December 12th, 1999

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    Water Temp: low 50's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Cold, cloudy day ater a warm and sunny 65

Sunday, December 5th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: i ished sat or about an hour and didnt manage anything. i have been ishing very deep about 70 t and without a ish inder i am just guessing the ish are still there. i ished today (sunday) and managed only on ish rom deep.beore i came in i decided to hit a spot that i never ished beore and its only about 15 t deep with a ew trees and i got 3 ish and missed a ew. i need a ish inder because i believe there are alot more ish there than i caught. i believe there might be a big school near by. also today 3/4 o my ish had minnows in there mouths..not shad..i think the ish are getting deep because everytime i go i manage less ish up close. i think its time to start slowing down and going deep all day but early morning
    City: redding

Tuesday, November 30th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished this past holiday weekend. Water clarity is in excesso 20 eet. Baitish not easy to ind and moving ast. Youcan catch ish 40-70 t deep shaking worms o points whereyou locate some bait ish activity. Try outside the Jones Valley area and Packers Bay. Color was not important. I was not able to get a reaction bite at all. I heard thatthe better weights caught on the Sunday tournament were inthe upper part o the Sac and McCloud arms. This lake needs some good rain storms bad.
    City: San Ramon

    Tips: Find bait and shake worms deep or try your luck with ripbaits in the upper arm sections.

Monday, November 15th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 58-60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We ished the Pit arm o the lake on Sunday 11/14. The morning was cool and breezy with clear skies. The ish were deep 30-60 eet. Spooning and shaking worms produced the majority o the ish,which were not many. A ew in the 13inch range,but most were smaller. Fish are scattered unless you can ind a ball o bait ish. A lot o the ish are suspending in deep water. Several storms are predicted or this coming week which should improve the bite. The bite changes daily depending on the weather. Be prepared to throw anything orm top water to 1 ounce spoons and everything in between.
    City: Redding

Sunday, November 14th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 58-60 degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: i ished the bass tournament or the ire victims and i caught a limit or 6.05 lbs..irst place went or 9lbs and so it was relitivly hard ishing. we missed a good ish and were on big ish but couldnt get the bites we needed rom them. we used alot o worms..mostly greens and did get some spinnerbait ish. ishing is good in the morning but ater sun hits the water it is slow.
    City: redding

    Tips: ish worms shallow early than deeper later in the day. 30 eet or so.

Saturday, November 6th, 1999

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: i caught ish!!!this is the third trip i have taken lately and caught a ew (6) keepers. i dont mean little 12-13 in i mean 15-17 in. some how i wandered into a spot with lots o ish in less than 10 t o water and they swam right under me. i tossed jigs with no luck...i think i you jig vertical in 5 eet o water you cant get them to bite? anyways i got them to take spinnerbaits. wow what un. i am going in the morning to catch some more. good luck to all.
    City: redding

    Tips: i caught them on spinnerbaits. 1 excal. at ree ish 2 worm ish..look or wood!!!thats all i will give about my spot

Saturday, October 23rd, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: wow the lake is clear. still no shad to be ound. launched out o jones valley and went toward the pit i ished so many dierent baits and nothing worked. i went out around 430 and ished to dark. got three bites on a pop-r and that is it. good luck to everyone
    City: redding

Sunday, October 17th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing was really tough on Shasta this weekend ormy parner, no real pattern a ew keepers on spoons.Mostly dinks. Heavy- heavy- heavy wind...Today was a little better...Fishing was slow butat least you could try some other things. Fishingwas the best the last two evenings, mainly in the pit.See you Wed.
    City: Naches, Wa.

Monday, September 20th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 78-84

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Spent our days last week ishing Lake Shasta or the WCB Pro-Am. September has always been a tough time on this lake or most anglers. This week was no dierent. I spent the irst day in the McCloud arm searching or bait. Only could ind very small balls in the backs o coves. Nothing on the main lake. I ran points and cut's o the main lake or our days catching dinks on 4 & 6" worms, blue ghost & purple ghost. Dart heards or brass-n-glass, didn't matter. Fish were rom 2-30 eet. Also caught ish in these areas with a 3/8 brown smallie jig. I weighed my better ish in the tournament on this bait. We also would look or the ish busting on shad and toss Rico's & poppers. This worked well in practice as the ish seemed to be busting all day long. During the tournament, this bite disappeared or me. Also caught ish on spoons in 30' all over the lake.
    City: Oakley

Saturday, September 18th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Shasta or our days Sept 16,17,18,19.. Preished the irst two days and then ished the WCB Pro Am as a semi pore. My wie and I ished together the irst two days. Started o with three nice keepers ripping the Neon Blue 28 Pointer minnow, caught numerous small ones during the day. I had most o my success over humps and islands in the lake. Robin caugh several keepers on 6" worms and grubs. did this in the McCloud on the 16th. Fished the Pit Arm on the second pre ish day, struggled with small keepers and a ew keepers. Spent most o the day looking around and talking to Cooch!..Tournament day one, my Pro wanted to or us to throw buzzbaits which we did running a couple banks. A ew blowups but not one caught even with trailer hooks attached. Switched to dartheads around 1330 and promptly caught a couple keepers, caught one more keeper beore weighin or a total o three. Worm color didn't seem to matter. Green ghost, lash o blue, R&B, green craw etc. I you ound ish they would bite..Second tournament day, worked Spooks and rip baits.. Slow bite, caught a couple o banks.. Ran some banks with darter heads caught two more small ones. We did catch a lot o little ones.
    City: Redding

    Tips: Darter heads in 20-25' any where.. Spoons down to 50', small rip baits over rocks. ind the bait the ish will bite!

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    Water Temp: 72 or so

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Club night tourney rom 6 pm Saturday through 8 am Sunday. Spent the entire night on the McCloud arm working the east bank across rom Holiday Harbor and Lakeview. Caught lots and lots o ish. Topwater bite was o due to winds but got ish on zipper worms, spinnerbaits and crank baits. A suspending at ree shad in a crawdad color worked best or me. Although lots o ish were caught, most were snakey spots under the minimum. I did end up with 2 keeper ish in the livewell - a 14" spot and another spot that was o the board and about 17.5" long. Most ish caught were tight to the bank although some did hit right at the boat. I'm assuming those were ollowers that hit as the crankbait made it's upward track at the end o the retrieve. Worm ish were caught up to 15' deep. Even though we tried much deeper or larger ish, nothing was caught deeper. No idea what my 17.5" actually weighed as we broke down and we were DQed or being late and my ish were back in the lake at 8 am.
    City: Redding

    Tips: Find the shad and you'll catch ish. They are continually moving so be prepared to adjust.

Friday, September 3rd, 1999

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    Water Temp: 76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught up to ive spotted bass at a time while trolling or trout and salmon along the rock wall between the Pit and Squaw arms out o Jones Valley. We were ishing 30 to 60 eet deep using silverlue and iretiger cripplures and kastmasters. Only saw one good sized ball o shad all day. They were suspended down 40 eet in 150 eet o water.
    City: lake almanor