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Saturday, March 28th, 1998

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    Water Temp: 49-53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Two day tourney out o Bridge Bay. Saturda had a major cold ront approach; overcast and cold. Fished the Pit and hit runningwater in coves and chunk rock banks. Got 7 ish or 10.3# on worms and jigs in mostly 20' o water. The Pit rom Rend Island up was very stained and loaded with debris. Sunday was a blue bird day with a cold brisk north wind. Water temps dropped 2-4 degrees rom the day beore. We only managed 4 keepers on worms and jigs on the Pit arm as we waded through lots and lots osmall ish. The lake had risen 8 eet right beore the tourney and was dropping about a oot a day during it.
    City: Redding

Thursday, March 26th, 1998

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    Water Temp: 52-58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished all week in variable weather in the Pit arm. Had a good week, caught 140 ish between us in 4 days. Best action was with a jig and red shad plastic worm combination. Pumpkinseed color was hot also. Alot o spots, some really nice smallmouth too. Primary and secondary points held most ish, but alot came o o unlikely looking steep banks.
    City: Susanville

Sunday, March 22nd, 1998

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Guys and Gals 2nd tourny, rained non stop all day but water airly clear, and no wind. Every one caught ish on worms on pre ish so we all stuck with what was working. Didn't seems to matter what color, light or dark and the ish hit. Couples weight or10 ish,irst place, 11lbs 6oz. A bunch o clones. Most ish caught on secondary points and back in coves.
    City: Oroville

Saturday, March 21st, 1998

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    Water Temp: 55-57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Buddy and I ished Thursday aternoon and all day Friday. Got rained out ater a couple hours on Saturday. Picked up 70 Spots and Smallmouth, mostly small, but 30-40% over 12 inches. Four or 5 over 15 in. Only 2 on spinnerbaits, the rest on oxblood/chart. 4 inch worms. Bass seemed to be on windy points and up to hal-way back into the coves. Fun trip, even i the ish were mostly small.
    City: Reno, NV

Saturday, March 14th, 1998

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    Water Temp: 51-56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Two day club tourney where 12.5in to 13.5in ish were abundant.Diicult to pick up ish in the 15in range and most in that range were skinney male spotted bass that weren't much more than 1.5#. Saturday's reaction bite was only on until about 9 am then it was worms and lizards to pick up a limit. Sunday's reaction bite was good through most o the day. Cranks, rip baits and spinnerbaits worked through out the day on small keeper ish. Most active ish were caught on windy points. Chunk rock pointsorked well or worms and lizards.
    City: Redding

Friday, February 20th, 1998

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: We ished the irst two hours in the rain without a bite. When the rain quit the ish turned on. We caught 40 ish at a depth o 25 eet on worms the best ish was 16 in. and 5 ish 14 in. The better ish came in the pit arm.
    City: Susanville

Sunday, February 8th, 1998

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I ished the B.A.S.S. tourney on Feb.8 as a non boater. We caught our ish in creeks, some o them actually in the running water. I caught a 3# 6oz lgm on a crankbait irst thing in the morning and had A 5 ish 9lb limit in 45 minutes- 1 hour. The rest came on Brown Jigs with pork or plastic. My Boater had a limit by 12:00 and caught a2lb 4oz spot right beore weigh in on a char. spb. He took 10th place W/ 10lb, I took 12th W/ 9lb 120z. The same kinds o methods were used by most o the Guys in the mony. It took 12lb 8oz or 5 ish to win.
    City: Redding

Monday, January 26th, 1998

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    Water Temp: 51.6

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: FISH LAKE SHASTA ON 1-26-98, WATER WAS 51.6 HAD A PRETTY GOOD DAY WITH 23 FISH .19 OF THEM WERE SPOTS AND THE OTHER 4 WERE SMALLMOUTHS,I HAD 13 THAT WERE OVER 15inch.THE BETTER FISH CAME ON BROWN AND BROWN JIGS THE REST ON WITCHS TIT ZIPPER WORMS IN 20 TO35 FEET. MY BIGGEST WAS 3.8 LBS THEY ALL CAME FROM MAIN BODY POINTS MY ONLY PROBLEM WAS MOTHER NATURE THE RAIN ......
    City: Sunsanville

Wednesday, January 21st, 1998

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Spent several days looking or ish and testing the quality o my raingear. Fish were rom less than 5 eet to 40 eet, and the quality ish were shallow. Some on blades, a ew ripped, but most on brown/purple jigs. Lake is on the rise, so I concentrated on areas where resh inlow was o-color. Weighed in a 9# limit in a clug tournament, and o course could not ind a 3# or 4# kicker like Pre-ish.
    City: Redding

Tuesday, January 20th, 1998

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Club tourney on 1/18. We ished mostly ledges and dropos adjacent to lats to pick up 2 limts; 10.5# and 7.5# limits were taken on blades, jigs and worms. Fish were caught in less than 15' o water. We did get a ew ish in the backs o coves with running water. Our biggest ish was about #3.5. Others caught ish in small rivlets o water coming o o the steeper banks. This water was warmer than surrounding lake water and the ish seemed to concentrate there. Fish were concentrated so you had toover alot o water to ind them.
    City: Redding

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Club tourney on 1/18. We ished mostly ledges and dropos adjacent to lats to pick up 2 limts; 10.5# and 7.5# limits were taken on blades, jigs and worms. Fish were caught in less than 15' o water. We did get a ew ish in the backs o coves with running water. Our biggest ish was about #3.5. Others caught ish in small rivlets o water coming o o the steeper banks. This water was warmer than surrounding lake water and the ish seemed to concentrate there. Fish were concentrated so you had toover alot o water to ind them.
    City: Redding

Saturday, November 15th, 1997

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    Water Temp: 60s

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished ABA team tournament. Rained steady all day. Started crankin in McCloud arm irst. Had a limit beore 11am but only about 1 1/2 lb avg. Went to Sac arm cranked shad colors rom shore to about 12 tdepth. Got a 3.05lb spot. ended up with 8.64 lbs.very slow worm bite. Had planned on spooks and blades but gave it up too early. Winners threw magnum spooks and spinnerbaits or over 14lbs. 50+ boats showed up or the wind and rain. Most everybody had limits.
    City: Grass Valley

Sunday, November 2nd, 1997

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    Water Temp: 61-67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Shasta Cascade Bass Angler's Fall Classic. Field o 74 teams. We ound ish pre-ishing during the week but with the shad constantly moving, we had problems inding the active bass on tournament day. No problems inding the shad, but there were so many shad balls, inding the active bass posed problems or us. We got 3 keepers on blue ghost 4in worms in 15-35 t. End o the day, w/30 mins let, we inally ound bass busting the surace, in a very shallow cove with 67 degree water. Picked u 2 chunky #2+ spots and several dinks on topwater beore we ran out o time. Our 5 ish weighed #7+. Took about #12 to get a paycheck. Winners got their #16+ on worms way up the Pit. Second place got theirs on worms, spinnerbaits and jigs....they oun shad on the bank being pushed there by active bass. 4th place had only 4 ish but they went or #13.5 ....all on spooks.
    City: Redding

Tuesday, October 21st, 1997

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    Water Temp: 65-69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started ishing in the aternoon ound spots on deep sides o main lake points w/rock. Shakin 6in worms texas 3/8 bullet weight with glass bead on 10 pound test. Fished into the night, ished moved up catchin them on 10in berkely power worms but had tobite o about 4in o the worms as it seemed the ish only wanted the tail and were bitin short. Same main lake points right out rom Bridge Bay and under the bridge right side. Rocks and deep water. During the day caught ish in 30 to 40 t. At nightstill near the deep water but they moved up into 5 to 10 t.
    City: Suisun City

Friday, October 17th, 1997

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    Water Temp: 65-68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hit Shasta Fri evening about 3. Launched at Bridge Bay. Started ishing main lake right across rom Bridge Bay. Found ish on the sides o points in about 30-40 t o water. Caught all ish shakin worms. Color didn't seem to make a big dierence. Browns or skipper worms seemed to work the best. Used 6 inch worms, 3/8 ounce brass bullet weight with glass beads rigged texas. Couple o ish go 3 pounds. Had to have some rock or wood. Also ished till about 12 midnight. Fish moved up to the banknd caught to many to count. Quite a ew 2 and some 3 pound ish. 10 inch berkley power worms, but had to bite o the ish 3 or 4 inches as the ish were just grabbin the tail. Tried smaller worms and grubs, but kept going back to the big worm. Guessit was the tail action. Fished same way Saturday and didn't start until about 3 pm as they had a West Coast Team TOC going on and didn't want to get in the way o those guys. Same pattern held true or Saturday. Fished longer that night until about 4 ithe morning. The night bite was antastic. Didn't catch anything over 4 pounds. Stayed main lake across rom Bridge Bay. Fished up passed the bridge right side the entire bank almost to Jones Valley Resort Saturday night and did real well. Boy is tat lake low.
    City: Suisun City

Saturday, October 11th, 1997

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Tournament day. We decided to start in the back o Silverthorn to see i we could get any good ish early on reaction baits. I started with a white Poes 300 and my partner started with a Bill Norman Deep Little N in a shad color. We started catching ishright away but nothing big. The graph was loaded with bait and ish. Another boat came in and started on the same bank about 50 yards down on a roadbed. They caught one o the big ish o the tournament there on a white spinnerbait. We continued to ish te entire cove on the east side. We caught alot o ish but only two keepers. We decided to stay with the cranks until we stopped getting bit. We went to Allie cove and cranked two points that came together. in about 15 minutes we caught our last three keeers. It was 10:30 and we had about 8 lbs. We went to the back o the MC Cloud and stayed there until about 2 pm. We caught a ew more ish and our big ish o 2.3 lbs. We culled one and the rest didnt help,we now had a little over 9 lbs. I ended up throwig a crank all day long and my partner switched o through out the day. The tournament was won by the other boat in Silverthorn. They said they caught all their ish throwing white spinnerbait all day long. They also had a couple o points in the sacrameto arm. There was one 12 lb weight, two 10 lb weights and eight 9 lb weights. The rest o the 184 boat ield that had limits wieghed in between 5 and 7lbs. All o the good weights were caught on reaction baits o some sort.
    City: N/A

Friday, October 10th, 1997

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started the day ishing the north side o the main lake between the MC Cloud and the Squaw.My partner and I caught alot o ish on brass and glass using six inch PRO worms in the blue ghost and the cinnamon with blue neon bloodline and red lake. We alsothrew alot o jigs today trying to get better quality. We spent about 2 1/2 hours ishing this area and caught over 30 ish but no size. We went back to the mouth o The Pit to see i the ish on those points were still there. The bait had moved and so dithe ish. The Pit was getting hit hard so we tried to ind something dierent. We went to Silverthorn and ished alot o the no nothing banks and caught a couple o 1 3/4 lb ish near the backend on the East side o the cove. We went to a couple o morecoves located on the south side o the main lake looking or similar type banks. We ished Allie cove and ound a couple more areas that were holding ish. We decided to go to the back o the MC Cloud and check the bait I had ound the day beore.. The ih were still there and we caught a couple o more ish in the two pound range split shoting the same worms. We tried throwing all dierent types o reaction baits but had no luck except or a ew spoon ish. Most o the ish we caught were in 15 to 30 et. My riend who was also up there said he had caught ish on a crank bait and in some cases two ish at one time. he was ishing in the squaw cove and sacramento arm. another riend had caught about 25 spinnerbait ish trhowing it all day long.
    City: N/A

Thursday, October 9th, 1997

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Pre-ished or ABA T.O.C out o Bridge Bay. Fished the Mc Cloud arm where I had caught good ish in the past with no luck. Went to the mouth o the Pit and ished steep wall pionts with a 1/4 ounce darter head and a Six inch morning dawn PRO worm with a curl tail. I caught ive ish in a short period o time but no size. it seemed the average limit on worms was about 7.0 to 7.5 lbs. The weather got ugly about mid-day.I went to the back end o the MC Cloud and ound alot o bait activity on steeper walls.was able to catch a ew more ish but the wind picked up and made it hard to hold on the balls o bait.I pulled o the water about 1 pm. The trick seemed to be ind the bait and the ish were close by. The only two places that I ound holding a concentrtion o bait and bass were in the Pit and the back o the MC Cloud.
    City: N/A

Tuesday, October 7th, 1997

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: FISHED IN THE PIT RIVER ARM . CAUGHT FISH IN ABOUT 15 TO 30 FEET OF WATER SPOONING , AND DRAGING WORMS ON THE BOTTOM!! OX BLOOD N BLUE WORKED BEST . THE BASS IN THE LATE AFTERNOON ARE STARTING TO BUST ON THE SHAD .GOT SOME NICE FISH CASTING TO BOILS WITH A SMALL SPOON OR SHAD COLORED GRUB ON A DARTER HEAD . THEY WOULD HIT IT ON THE DROP. IT SHOULD ONLY GET BETTER WITH COLDER WEATHER
    City: Alemeda

Sunday, September 21st, 1997

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Day4... Last dayon the lake and decided to go back up the Sac arm. Went to an area we ound the irst day which had good water access and lots o bait... the key to the whole trip. Fish were irst located at 20t but were better concentrated at 30-32t. Again all ish were doodled. These ish were not as nice as the Pit arm... most in the 1.25-1.5# range. Tried a ew other similar areas with onlt smaller ish to catch. Not as good ishing this day, but still managed a tournament limit quick. But no wind tday, hot in the mid 90's. The lake still dropping about 1t / day.
    City: Eureka