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Saturday, September 20th, 1997

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Day-3... Again decided to go up the Pit arm. Seemed the better ish were up there. Went to an area where we caught ish the day beore and again looked or the bait level. Bait still was moving at 30-40t. Started doodling the deep water cuts and startedcatching ish immediately. Had a decent tournament limit in an hour... 1.5-2# spots. Worked the area hard and sat there or about 2hrs catching nothing but 2#-2.5# ish. Went arther up Pit and again ound ish in the previous areas. All ish were again dep except very late in the day when we ound some decent ish up in the cuts shallow. Very little wind and hot.
    City: Eureka

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Day-3... Again decided to go up the Pit arm. Seemed the better ish were up there. Went to an area where we caught ish the day beore and again looked or the bait level. Bait still was moving at 30-40t. Started doodling the deep water cuts and startedcatching ish immediately. Had a decent tournament limit in an hour... 1.5-2# spots. Worked the area hard and sat there or about 2hrs catching nothing but 2#-2.5# ish. Went arther up Pit and again ound ish in the previous areas. All ish were again dep except very late in the day when we ound some decent ish up in the cuts shallow. Very little wind and hot.
    City: Eureka

Friday, September 19th, 1997

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Day-2... Went up the Pit arm and looked or bait. Found lots o activity at the same level as the day beore... 30t. Concentrated on areas that had good deep water access and bait. Caught LOTS o ish in the 2#-2.5# range with a Smallie/hybrid that went3#. Again most ish went or ddoddling at 30t, but did get a ew cranking later in the day when we saw breaking ish.
    City: Eureka

Thursday, September 18th, 1997

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Day-1... Started working in the Packer Bay area with only small ish to show. Started looking or the bait up the Sac arm and located some deep. Started doodling ish that we could see in the 30t range and started catching 1.25#-2# ish. We located two areas this day. Caught about 30-40 keeper ish.... post ront... but no wind ...North winds expected tomorrow.
    City: Eureka

Tuesday, July 15th, 1997

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: lake shasta ish points and underwater humps in main body. tips: ish with top water early then worm
    City: Willows

Monday, July 7th, 1997

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: started 5:30 am neer arbunkle ats pit river arm.started whith top water. with no luck. changed to a smoke sparkle 2 inch grub with great results. me and my wie both got 2 spots in the 14-16 inch range. as the morning went on we could not ind any more that size but ther was boils o very small ish in the 6-10 inch size.they wher a BLAST! they kept us going till 10:00 am. TIPS: lots o small shad right now. try small grubs or tubs in smoke or white. sparkels are allways good.
    City: Salinas

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    Water Temp: 66-68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 4 days with two 6yr olds and my 13 yr. old son. The little ones hammered the dinks on slim senkos around willows. After the little ones got there fair share of fish, my son and I went out looking for some better bites. Weather was unstable so fish were in kind of a funk. jig and dropshot bite was not happening. Pretty weird when you cant get 'em on jigs on shasta. We ended up finding some better fish. When it was clear and calm we fished creek channels with 5" senkos and got a few in the 2# range. When a cell would blow through we fished steep main lake structure with spinnerbaits and big topwaters. Thats when we got our better fish. lots of 2's a few close to 3 and 2 fish right about 4# one just over and one just under.
    City: Mckinleyville

    Tips: 5" Senkos in creek channels. cast out let sink to bottom and repeat. no shaking or dragging it back.
    big topwater and spinnerbaits on windy main lake structure.

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hey vern.when chickenman stops going into competitors and yelling at people and there kids. It will probably become normal. Apperantly he is famous with M.a.d.d. but a loser to the top sticks around. The fish are in the water.
    City: fargo

    Tips: Don't be a Dui loser like chickenman.read the billboard on the freeway. Turn in drinking drivers.

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hey!,let's all when this for the chopper.
    Goodbye Mr.chips.
    City: modesto

    Tips: If you outwit,outlast,outplay.
    You win all the chips.
    From all of us to everyone in Arizona. Our hearts go out to you GOD BLESS THE USA.

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: oh great, chipper chatter.
    City: las vegas

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Let the chips fall where they may. Mr.
    City: mt.shasta

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hey mr. Tackle man I got chipped.
    City: lakehead

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Wood somebody please. Pass. The chips and hot sauce.
    City: redding

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    Water Temp: 49-50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I once had a chip in my rod.I pulled it out of my butt with hemostatsand put a camera up the shaft.once I knew it was clean,I capped it back up.now my rod has no chip. It looks feels and acts brand new and nobody can tell where it has been.
    City: anderson

    Tips: The 1.7 to 2.6lb fish are there in greens creek.but like last year,it will be won at the dam. Good fishing to all.its true about the gps trackers.and they are cheap to buy online.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Are you all this stupid.! Put anti gps tracker on your boat or smartphone.even the float at blast off has a gps locator in it for camera crew.some are even in butt section of rods you buy.you can get 500ct.for$15.00 on line.you are the stupidest people ever.Ha.
    City: dublin

    Tips: Go to greens creek.a pumkin lizard on the right side in 12 to 27ft.=

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    Water Temp: high 40's / low

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The water at Shasta has been SUPER clear this year. Probably as clear as I can ever remember seeing it in my life, Almost makes Whiskeytown look like a mud puddle :). The bite is double tough out there right now, There is absolutely no question about that, but it is starting to come on a little bit.

    The last team tournament on Shasta this past weekend took 15.1 to win, 13.37 for second and 11.51 for third, Fourth was 11.1 and the weights tapered off from there. The two team events on the weekends prior to that took a little over ten pounds to win and each of those bags had one kicker over four pounds and were also won by the same guys.

    The reaction fish have not really come on yet, There have been a few spinnerbait and ripbait fish caught here and there but that is definitely not a reliable bite right now.
    Its been a low and slow kinda deal fishing mostly soft plastics i.e. dartheads, dropshot rigs and the like with 4" and 6" worms and tubes in brown's, green's and shad colors.

    There have been very few swimbait fish caught and those have been only under ideal conditions.
    If the sun is on the water and the sky is clear fish your plastics. If it clouds up and the surface gets some chop try looking for a reaction bite but be prepared to go back to you finesse gear.

    They are being caught in a wide variety of depths ranging from 4 feet to 60 feet, The fish are pretty scattered.
    Just about everyone you talk to who's been out and is saying anything will tell you the same. It's tournament time up there now so most of the guys that are fishing them aren't talking much because they don't want to give away what they are on.... and to be truthful, You really can't blame them... they have a pretty good chunk of money on the line, figuratively speaking.

    Tips: Light line, Long casts and move slow. Check a wide variety of structure as there is no hard and fast rule to how the fish are positioning right now. They are eating.... It's just a matter of being in the right place at the right time when they go on the feed.
    The guys at Phils know the lake very well and they do go above and beyond to help anglers out and will get you pointed in the right direction.

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Overcast no rain, bite was good in the morning slowed down by midday.Most fish in 40+ feet.Fished jigs and worms on darts more bites on worms better fish on jigs.10 fish all in first 3 hours of morn.
    City: Redding

    Tips: Don't try to get tips from Phils unless your one of the "in crowd".Post more here so we can all get good info from each other.

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: You want cheese with your Whine?


    275 8113 Try calling them
    City: P.C.

    Tips: this is a fish report site

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: last to posts hit it on the nail....you combine them with the decline of crappie and drought ,make it a spotted bass /smallie lake.the largemouth now eat more trout and perch and are found around the brooder trout areas.good fishing to all and always,Have Fun.Mark.
    City: shasta lake

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    Water Temp: NONE

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: The way to tell if it is a spotted bass or Largemouth is to feel the tongue. If it has 3 or more little teeth it is a spot, if no teeth on the tongue it is a Largemouth. That is the most definate way of telling what you have on the end of your line.
    City: Red Bluff

    Tips: Dont feel for teeth on MUSKY's tongue.