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Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 65-70

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Very hot day on the lake. Thought I would avoid the boat traffic, but I guess people don't work any more. Worked a stretch near Lakeshore, mostly rocks and some brush in the water. Fish seemed to be holding in little pockets. Slow finesse tactics seemed to work the best. If you don't die from the heat you may from catch too many small fish.
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: Bites can be slow to come, stick to the area you catch one and a bigger fish will show up. Shade pockets or inner covers seemed to be the ticket. Have fun!!

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The lake is just under 4' from full. water temp in the main body is 66 and a little warmer in the coves. Soft plastics like Senkos and tubes are getting bit as well as white spinnerbaits with double white willow blades. The top water bite is starting to come on, We have had a few reports of topwater fish this week from guys that have throwing poppers and floating minnow baits and having good sucess in the mornings and evenings.
    City: Shasta Lake

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

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    Water Temp: Low 60's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The lake is just under 2' from full pool. The bite has been pretty decent despite the recent storms that we have been getting. Bass are still being caught mainly on soft plastics such as weightless wacky rigged Senkos, tubes and 6" straight tail worms on 1/8 to 3/16 oz. dartheads fished from the shoreline out to around the 20' mark. The water in the Squaw and Pit arms of the lake has been running a little dirtier than the Sac and the McLoud. Bass are still in all stages of the spawn. Look for staging fish waiting to move up around 20' deep off of steeper drop off's, Spawning fish on long flats from the shoreline out to 15' and post spawners around the willows.
    City: Shasta Lake

    Tips: If you are planning on heading out give us a call at 1-800-462-3917 or 530-275-4939 for the latest info on how the lake is fishing.

Saturday, May 21st, 2011

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    Water Temp: 58-61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got exactly 30 fish today. Most Fish were tuckeys...two smalljaw...Big fish #3 spot. Most 13 - 16 inches , one 18 inches. Caught fish on yum DIngers in watermelon \Red flake in 3 inch , and yamammoto 4 and 5 inch senkos...baby bass. Drop shot hook barbless...got rid of wide gap and caught more fish. Only lost one fish barbless. Fish fought well better than in the usual summer. Fish scattered in coves and off points 15-35 feet. Great weather till about 7pm started raining..didnt stop the fish in evening bite. Heard there was a lot of tourney traffic..didnt see much of it though. Great day!
    City: Klamath falls ,

    Tips: Be patient....bouncing techniques not working like usual...slow down presentation a little bit...unless you already fish slow..!

Friday, May 20th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 62 to 64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The lake is just over 3' from capacity. Look for staging fish on main and secondary points and around the willow trees. Most of the bass being caught have been on 4" & 5" senkos in natural shad, Baby bass and green pumpkin or 4" & 6" Mother Finest worms in Morning Dawn and Mojave Oxblood. 4" Zoom ringworms and small flukes in Watermelon seed have also been producing well. The topwater bite has been happening in the evenings but not very consistently, Once the weather stabilizes that will improve.
    City: Shasta Lake

    Tips: if you are planning on heading up to Shasta Give us a call at 1-800-462-3917 or 530-275-4939 for the most current info on the lake.

Saturday, April 23rd, 2011

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    Water Temp: 57-59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished about 8 hours. Cool, rainy weather most of day. Smaller green tubes produced around 7 fish for me in the 12-14 inch range. I switched to Senko (style) rigged wacky with o-ring and caught 3 pounder on first cast. 2 casts later I lost a trophy at the boat. 8-9 pound range...wow. Heart pounding now. Caught about 15 more off this rig in about 15-25 feet of water. Am guessing with stabilized weather the bite will really be on.
    City: Reno

    Tips: Greens/Earthtones worked best. Wacky rigging with o-ring, #4 Owner mosquito hook, and small splitshot. Very light bite, watch your line.

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished silverthorn on sat. Minnows were a no go. Switched to baby bass senkos and the fight was on! 6 fish in an hour all were 2 pounds or bigger. Find submerged trees or bushes and throw up against them. Fish r taking it on the fall.
    City: Redding

    Tips: FIsh r full of eggs and ready to spawn. Let the good times begin!

Friday, April 22nd, 2011

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished for about 4 hours on Good Friday. Had the most luck on green and brown soft plastics, fished slow. Caught 5 total, all in the 2-3 lb range.
    City: Lakehead, CA

    Tips: Fish slow! Most of the fish hit on the drop, and it was a very soft bite. The females we caught were getting pretty fat in the belly and looked like they were close to spawning. Should be a good fishing this summer.

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Any body fishing up the pit, close to arbuckel flat? Just wandering if the fish have moved up in numbers from the secondary points yet?Whats the water temp?Thanks
    Si
    City: lakeview ore.

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 58-62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Bass bite is on fish are moved to the back of coves and creek inlets caught fish from 15 feet up to the shoreline 25 fish day sincos natural colors
    City: redding

Saturday, April 9th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 48-52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Two of us fished this past Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday we fished the Sac arm and ended the day with 16 fish. The biggest was 3lbs caught on a spinner bait. We caught 13 on minnows,1 on a spinner bait and two on mf worm. Most fish were in 30 to 40 feet of water. The water temp was 47 to 50 degrees.

    On Sunday we fished the main body, Squaw and Pitt arms. We were able to catch 14. Again minnows outfished artificial baits. Only 5 of the 14 were on plastic (one on a senko, one on a spinnerbait and three on mf worms). Water temp was 50 to 52 degrees in the Pitt. Again the fish for the most part are not close to the shore?
    City: Rough and Ready

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Up the Pit for a couple days.The bite was slow water temp. was in the low 50s Most fish on secondary points 25 to 40 feet. Brown lizards, twin tails, and a few on deep crank baits. The water levels looked to be dropping about a foot a day. I hope the water warms up I'll be down for a week at the end of the month. Good luck!!
    City: Lakeview Ore.

    Tips: Slow down if you want to hook up.

Monday, April 4th, 2011

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey just heard there was a tournament there Sunday(4-3-11). A new lake record Spot was caught by Scott Green(Windsor,Ca.). 8.85lbs. A freakin donkey. A lot of fish caught. 29lbs won the tournament. Scott came in second with 26lbs and a new lake record! Not a bad day!
    City: Petaluma

    Tips: Just go fishing. You never know what might happen!

Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Just finished a small club derby with 12 teams. Only one team actually caught their 5 fish limit. Most others caught 2 or 3. I caught my 2 spots on 6 inch redish robo worms. Yesterday I caught a 3 pounder on a spinnerbait and a 2 pounder on a jerk bait. I heard the team who caught 5 was fishing anything green. such as senkos and worms. It was extremely tough out there. Incredibly windy and apparently the lake is dropping a foot a day so the fish a very confused and not biting.
    City: Marin

    Tips: If you want numbers, green worms. size, spinnerbait and jerk baits. Oh and my fish were caught in around 15 feet of water on rocky shorelines.
    Good luck!

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I'm coming down to Shastsa next week. No body's done a posting in a month. Whats the H20 Temp?
    Any fish moving up yet? Is it a normal spring on the lake this year? ie:Sencos and M/F hand pours in the trees/willows? Sure would like a heads up
    Thanks
    City: Lakeview, Ore.

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went up the mccloud this time. caught 8 none bigger than 2 lbs.
    City: Redding

    Tips: brown jig still

Sunday, February 13th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Jones Valley. Fished Jones inlet and lower Squaw arm. Very slow weekend. Threw green lizards (black speckled) down to 30 feet and only hit 3 small specks. Switched to trolling for trout from top water down to 40 feet with riggers and various colors. No luck what so ever. Air was cold (29 degrees in morning) and water was clear (down to 20+ feet). Nothing biting nothing! Normally February is a great month for fishing Shasta Lake. This was a day before a big storm so maybe the pressure drop stopped the bite?
    City: Cottonwood

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I went up the sac today, way better than pit. The fish seem fatter also.
    City: redding

    Tips: Still throwing that brown jig in 20-40 feet.

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    Water Temp: 47-48

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Two of us fished this past Saturday and Sunday. Boy it was TOUGH!!!!! On Saturday we fished the Sacramento arm and were only able to catch4 fish drifting a live minnow. We saw quite a few groups of fish, but most of them were not feeding. Also quite a few balls of bait. We threw senko's in 4 different colors, we tried dart headed worm (mothers finest) in three different colors, hula grub on football head, and flukes. Sunday we fished the main body and again only caught 4 fish on minnows. Again saws lots of fish in 50 to 100 feet of water, saw bait, but only would get one fish or none. Most fish though were fat??? They must be feeding sometime????? Water was clear down to at least 20 feet.
    City: Rough and Ready

Friday, January 28th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 49.2-52.4

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: fished fri and sat. friday was tough but managed 10 between 2 people. sat was lock jaw day cold front had them scattered managed only 4 between 2 people. water was really clear probably 15 to 20 ft vis. fish were any where from 15ft to 40ft.
    City: California

    Tips: hula grubs were the ticket for us did catch a few on grubs and one on a darterhead, chunky rock banks that were steep and points but had to be chunky rock. fished main body and sac arm .. good luck see ya on the water (: