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Thursday, January 20th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Windy, Windy, Windy, and slow. managed 7 fish all day, best 5 at just under 10lbs. No reaction bite at all. One trout on a crankbait.
    City: redding

    Tips: jigs/worms/dropshot, only way to go, 10-40 feet

Thursday, December 30th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 50-51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Tight lips, managed 3 fish all day. Throwing a jig in about 40 feet. no reaction bite at all. Biggest fish was 1.5 Cant wait for spring.
    City: Shasta Lake

    Tips: stay in 40 feet, most fish were concentrated in that depth.

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 49 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: tough 4 fish all day
    City: hayward

Monday, December 27th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 50-54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: found good fish,beginning of tributeries in creeks. hope you all get on em. to the guy who blew by me,and knocked the wifes coffee all over her....its ok take the fish...we caught 7 bass up to 17inches in azalea till you did that.. you must be fishing the big one,to do that,then you shut the fish down each time you left?.its ok you did it 3 times today.we have a small boat with a 35hp. so please watch out for us,ok. hope you do good.
    City: redding

    Tips: there is a eddy outside the running water,let the boat drift into it,thats your warm water.


    tight lines to you all.

Saturday, December 18th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 52-54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing getting alot better small swinbaits in the little cuts with running water 1/2 oz brn jig on under water island tops getting them two big backbone has a good spoon bit. had about 10 keepers for about 91/2 pounds. with alot of short fish. The big rain storm was nothing at the lake.
    City: redding

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Hows the bite. I havent been up there in years... Want to take the wife
    City: lodi

Saturday, November 13th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Wow, Tough fishing...bites are hard to come by

    Tips: go to orville

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I went out after work today and caught several fish on a dropshot and senko. The water is very clear! I found better fish in 30-35 ft. Once the shadows hit the water I caught a lot of nice bass on top-water.
    City: Redding

    Tips: Baby bass colored plastics. The best top-water lure for me was "The One".

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 83

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Thought the night bite would be better with the full moon. Lots of small fish. Tough to get a keeper. Awesome time other wise. There is nothing like being on the lake at night with a full moon.
    City: Fernley,Nv

    Tips: Caught fish on all types of lures. Didn't seem to matter if it was a crankbait or jig or texas rig worm. All caight fish.

Monday, August 16th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 82.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 230 to 5 around dam area. small fish not even 12 inches everywhere. only caught 1 keeper around 14 inches in 15 foot of water. lost one over 3 at the boat. i hate this new line...flouroclear p line 15#. anyways fishing is good if your looking for bites but the size is small.
    City: redding

    Tips: worms from 5 to 20 feet if you want bites. the little fish are there and hungry.

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 83

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 11:30am until 5:30pm.I caught about 20 bass.Best 5 just under 13lbs.Lots of small fish shallow, better fish were around 25-30 feet deep.

    Tips: drop shot natural colored worms. senkos on a flick shake head.I missed the top-water bite.I did catch one about 4lbs the day before on a wake bait.

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 6/24-6/28. Mostly Sac arm. Good topwater morning and evenings. Schools of spots on points taking dropshot and jerkbaits in 10-30ft of water. Mostly small fish w/some to 2-3#.
    City: Redding

    Tips: Off the hook topwater 1st and last hr of light. Use larger lures and go deeper for better fish.

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Jones Valley and ran up the Squaw arm. Started throwing 7" brown power-worms with no luck. Switched to a carolina-rigged watermellon-black specked 6" lizard and hit a 12" spot first cast. Most bass were down at about 15 or more feet. No big ones, largest at 14". Then decided to troll for a few rainbows and found two 15"ers at about 25 feet. Set down-rigger up and dropped lures to 40 feet and reeled in one 20" and an 18". Used Blue/silver shad imitations (kastmasters, humdingers) and colorado/willow leaf flashers in front. Came home with fresh orange-meat trout dinner for the family.
    City: Cottonwood

    Tips: Use Pro-cure "Shad Gel" on your lures when trolling for trout. Makes a world of difference.

Friday, June 18th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 68-70+

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started out of Centimudi and fished up to Digger Bay, fish were deep only got about 10, mainly on green and reddish worms, 4" greenpumkin senko's did will also. Head over to Dry Creek area, got one over 3lbs. got another 20+ agin all but 3 were over 12". Fish were mainly 15+ deep, only shallow fish were in mud lines. Biggest surprise was, 90% of fish were smallmouths. Saturday went out of Jones Valley, weather was cooler at first and light wind, took awhile but the bite stared, Greenpumkin 4" senkos, and green and reddish 4" worms, had to stay in the 15+ range and secondary points did well. Baby Bass color did will also, Only 1 smallmouth, other 20 plus spots over 12 and up to 17". Two good days, Boat traffic picked up when the weather got warmer, good thing was it made mud lines, which made a good area to fish.
    City: Redding

    Tips: Had to keep trying different colors but once you find the combo, it worked alday. Had to stay in the 15+ foot depth, or shallower in mud lines.

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 55-65 F

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Been fishing the lake all along. Last 2 weeks, caught alot of fish on crankbaits, with a few on texas rigged worms, when we got bored. Bite is good in the am and pm, but best in the pm. Fish are scattered but can be found focused on points and near willows. A surprisng amount of small mouth are showing up. Yeh for the smallies. Fish are showing ragged tails and bloody buts, so we are well into the spawn. Water temps are optimum for spawning.
    City: Redding

    Tips: Good Luck. A slow beginning does not mean you will not get on to them. Keep trying, and you will be there when they choose to bite!!

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: fish were biting good, caught about 20 smallies hitting mostly on gitzits and seinko fun day, lots of fish

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 62 - 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the long weekend over Memorial. Great weather on Sat & Sun. Fished in the evening on both days. Crankbaits were the ticket. Worked jigs an had no takers. Tossed other plastic and still nothing. Crankbait was what they wanted. Dark back with silver on the side. My son went out on Sunday in the morning and did not get a hit on anything. Once the sun went down the bite picked up.
    City: Fernley, Nv

    Tips: We were on the Sac arm, O'brien area mostly. Work a lot of different baits til you find what they want. Darker baits did best for us. Lighter color cranks were not doing it.
    Be cautious and what for debris.

Friday, May 21st, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My friend and I fished 5/21 and caught 8 spotted bass. We missed most of our bites due to small fish I would think. The biggest was 1 1/2 lbs.Used 5" Sankos in baby bass and monster shad, 4" watermelon blk and red flakes and some brown purple color I forgot the name of. Also caught 7 trout most were 10"-12" caught on rainbow,silverblue and gold kastmaster. One 19 inch trout was caught on a worm at night. All fish were in o'brien inlet.
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: fish by any trees in the water

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 58-59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched Jones Valley, tent camped up Squaw-arm and fished dusk to dawn. Mornings I threw a watermellon green (black speckled) 6 inch lizard with gamagaski 0/1 hook and sm splitshot from bank. Almost every cast there was a bump or a sharp hit of which I could only get about 50% to hook-up. I caught 23 bass am fishing, biggest a 3.5lb hen. Mid-late fishing was spent trolling 15-25 feet deep with seps flashers and silver/blue kastmasters & humdingers. Caught 16 rainbows only ranging 12-14" with biggest at 17". Water is clear and lake is full!
    City: Cottonwood

Friday, May 7th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went to squaw arm, launched in Jones valley, used senkos, white with sparkles in them cant remember the name, fished from 9-1 caught 5 spotted bass, all between 12-16" fished little coves with brush and drift wood in there. had a lot of bites but couldn't get the hook set for a while, there still biting real lightly.
    City: redding

    Tips: use white senko's, yamamoto or yum, blue pearl with silver, the whiter ones worked well for us.