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Monday, July 29th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: in at Trinity Center At 0500, ishing by mysel so I ran up to the tailings, 5 blacks to 2.5# all on MGM Shasta Crawlers in rootbeer color. Next stop outside o Eastork to the south and main lake points throwing MGM black hooktails on 1/4 oz. darterhead, caught appox. 15 smallmouth with the largest going 2.3#. I ever a ish had more to give in the eort to stay out o my boat I have not caught one! Those Smallies are all heart. Out o the water at 10:00 or my drive back to Redding.
    City: Redding

    Tips: Fish Shasta Crawlers on 3/8 ootball head jigs a throw to the bank.

Tuesday, July 16th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 75-80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We ished several mornings during our annual trek to Trinity. This year was the best ishing I have had in 18 years ishing here. Dropshotting was the ticket or us We used Roboworms in Aarons magic and the Baby Bass Color on main lake points. Limits o 2-3 pound smallmouth were common. We did get a ew largemouth and one that went to 5 pounds.We ished about 20-30 eet down mostly but did get ish in the aternoons in the mud about 10 eet deep.
    City: Belmont

    Tips: Main lake points in summer. with or without rocks. Bring lots o gear or the breakos that come rom ishing around submerged stumps.

Friday, July 12th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hard to miss at this lake it seemed like were ever you drop shot here your in the ish. I averaged about 15-20 ish a day or the thtree days I ished. All smallies the largest about 2.5 pounds
    City: Petaluma

    Tips: Drop shot plastics leaches grey patterns and morning sunrise. I your desperate crickets are are a sure thing.

Friday, July 5th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished with a client rom Redding who has not done much bass ishing, however he sure is a ast learner. Lunched at Trinity Center At 5:00 a.m. WE threw everything I could think o at them with some sucess, caught 26 ish, our best ish was a 4.1# l.m. also had 2-2.0# s.m.and a inish the day with a 3.2# s.m. on a jig. Back to the ramp at 3:00 p.m.,just in time to watch 2 people trying to launch and then proceed to inish loading there boats at the bottom o the ramp, they each took about 15 minutes to launch. must have been a couple o airheads Oh well just another great day on beautiul Trinity Lake
    City: Redding

    Tips: could not get bit on the 151 grubs or hooktails, Most on Jigs, 3/4 oz. ootball head jig.

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Had parties out on the lake both Sunday and Tues. Sunday was pretty slow but probably hit 20-25 ish total. A 6lb. Largemouth saved the day. It hit a rootbeer senko in the tailings early. Couldn't get a topwater bite going either day, but Sunday's crew had a couple o boils. Tues didn't bring us the toad we were hoping or but the clients were mostly interested in locations and techniques that would produce bigger ish than they had ound in the past. With 25-30 ish caught, several in the 2lb range mission accomplished. Fish both days were caught mostly on senkos and darter head Pro Worms. Morning Dawn is still working good as is the Pro Gold red lake. I must say that I throughly enjoyed both days. It'snice to have clients who appreciate the eort and are also really nice people. Thanks guys.
    City: Weaverville

    Tips: Smallies are still hanging out on lats in 6-10'

Wednesday, June 26th, 2002

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    Water Temp: -----

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got out on the lake or a while the 25th to see what was happening. Actually I was going to reclaim some conidence ater ishing Shasta or 3 days over the weekend. Went to the tailings at irst light and picked up a 5+ LM right o on a crankbait.I was looking or bedded largemouths as last year on the ull moon over the 4th there were a substantial no.o ish on beds, but this year that doesn't seem to be the case.Must have gotten that all taken care o earlier. Smallies are still hitting darter head worms in Pro Gold red lake and both species are hitting Gitzits. Around 9:30 I went to Wyntoon and hit some decent smallies on Morning Dawn. What you have to do is Match the Hatch. There are all kinds o pink critters swimming around in Trinity Lake, so obviously Morning Dawn is the color o choice.RIGHT!!! I don't know why it works but it does. They were also jumping all over rootbeer senkos. Ended up with over a dozen ish bigger than my best Shasta ish so mission accomplished.
    City: Weaverville

    Tips: Didn't try rip baits as I was sick o ishing them, but no reason they wouldn't work

Sunday, June 23rd, 2002

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    Water Temp: 68 to 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Shasta Cascade Bass Anglers had a tournament on Trinity on June 16th. It was a Golden Rule Tournament with a 5 ish limit. The top weight was 14.49 lbs, with a big ish o 3.87 lbs. It was a sunny day. The winds were calm in the morning and it was breezy in the aternoon. Most o the ishing was down N. o Trinity Center. We had 11 boaters and 5 non-boaters. The Club is always looking or new members. I interested in joining a good club call Jim at 224-9601.
    City: red blu

    Tips: Fish were caught on grubs, rip bait, buzz bait and even drop shot.

Friday, June 21st, 2002

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    Water Temp: 66.8-70.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: got in a trinity center at 0455 and ran into Squirrel gulch tossing spooks with Jack Kemper, got a smallmouth on but he got o while dancing his way back to the boat, Jack got two just under 2 lbs real quick, getting light so ran to the orth end in the tailings and caught 15 more, and 5 were largemouth and I got the ish o the day on a lucky crat pointer in aurora black, a nice at 3.7, the others averaged 1.5 and most came on spooks, the bite slowed around 8 am so we took o or Hay gulch and started tossing MGM worms in 127 and 151, Jack got a bunch o small ish, all smallmouth, on the 127 and I got 2 dinks on the 151, the bite quit near 0830 and we ished until 1030, many missed ish on the spooks when they came up and bumped them, porbably 20 more that didn't get on, the spook bite stopped just beore the sun hit the west bank. Not a single other boat out there and the water was lat, a great morning with Jack and I whooping it up as every smallmouth came to the surace and jumped repeatedly.
    City: Redding

    Tips: Take some MGM 151's in a three inch curly tail or ater the sun comes up.

Friday, June 7th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 65 to 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Spent a day on Trinity getting tuned up orthe August and Sep. trips I enjoy taking there and ished a little "trukey shoot" withsome riends. We caught good SM and LM allday on plastics, blades, and rip baits. Mypartner lost not one but two 5lb+ SM's swimin' a Yamamoto grub...what a bummer...buta great experience or him to hook these twoish. We ished exclusively the north end othe lake and caught quan. 2lb+ SM's and mixedin LM's in that same weight...a great trip with alot o action and beautiul weather. Looking orward to next month and Sep...getthat SB ready I gave you Mr. Rexord..thosebig SM are attening up or you right now!!!!
    City: Anderson, Ca.

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    Water Temp: 65 to 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Spent a day on Trinity getting tuned up orthe August and Sep. trips I enjoy taking there and ished a little "trukey shoot" withsome riends. We caught good SM and LM allday on plastics, blades, and rip baits. Mypartner lost not one but two 5lb+ SM's swimin' a Yamamoto grub...what a bummer...buta great experience or him to hook these twoish. We ished exclusively the north end othe lake and caught quan. 2lb+ SM's and mixedin LM's in that same weight...a great trip with alot o action and beautiul weather. Looking orward to next month and Sep...getthat SB ready I gave you Mr. Rexord..thosebig SM are attening up or you right now!!!!
    City: Anderson, Ca.

Friday, May 31st, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the North end Friday morning, missed the early morning bite but had decent cloud cover most o the day. Started o in the ballpark area and landed a ew average smallmouths, lots o empty beds around. Went up to the tailings and started inding some quality largemouths up to 5.1. Caught ish anywhere rom 2' to 25'. Jigs and senko's did most o the damage, had a hard time getting a reaction bite going. Some o the largemouth had raw tails but couldn't see any bed ish. Thunderstorms had us o the water by 5.
    City: Arcata

Saturday, May 11th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 54-59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got to the North end o the lake about 10 AM and ound the lot about ull o the Susanville club rigs. Went looking or smallie beds. ound a ew but it looks like the dropping water has moved the bigger males deeper. Hope this is the case, as the beds I ound were only about 3-4'deep. Went to the Ballpark and ound something that I hadn't seen beore. There was a 2-3 Knot current running North through that area. Apparently the large releases are creating a Southbound current in the mainlake and there is an eddy in the Ballpark area. As soon as I igured out what was happening It became real interesting. The ish were oriented dierent than I have ever seen and they were very catchable once you ound them. What startedout as a slow day ended up being a lot o un. Maybe 20 ish total, mostly quality smallies. A 5.5 Largemouth and a 4.5 smallie made the photo shoot back at the dock but there were several other ish over 3 pounds. As long as I don't see any more evidence o the releases causing problems with the spawn, perhaps I'd better quit b*tchin. Heard second hand that the club tourney had a 6+ or lunker and 12+ led the way. Wish I'd been entered.
    City: Weaverville

    Tips: Had a pretty good Gitzit bite going and next best was the Pro Gold on a 1/8 oz jig.

Monday, April 29th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 56-58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Congradulations to the guys who did well in the ABA So.Oregon tourney. 21.5 lbs or a our ish limit, Outstanding. Local boys Rob and Dave made a great showing with 20.5 lbs or 2nd. Chris and Robert had lunker with a 7.5 large and inished third with 3 4lb. smallies or 19.5 lbs. Does this tell us anything about the quality o the Trinity Fishery. All these quality ish on a ull moon and the day ater a cold ront. Wow!
    City: Weaverville

Sunday, April 28th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished ABA Oregon South Tourneyment at Trinity 4/28/02. We ished the ballpark area and the lats swimming Mother's Finest Hooktail Grubs or suspended prespawn ish. Caught tons o Smallies and a ew largemouth. Ended up with two smallies and two largemouth or 14.75 lbs or ourth place. First had 4 largemouth or 21.8 lbs.
    City: Eugene OR

    Tips: Mother's Finest Hooktails (available at Phil's Props in numerous colors) on 1/4 oz darter heads swam at various depths. Blackberry Wine and Smoke Hologram were working. Also caught a ew splitshotting MF Fidgets.

Friday, April 12th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 52-58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hit the rock piles or ive bass. Two Largemouth and three Smallmouth. The largrest was a 3.0 Largemouth. All the ish were taken on a Lucky Crat Stay-n-see.
    City: Weaverville

    Tips: The ish were shallow. All o them hit ater just two or three turns o the reel handle.

Tuesday, April 9th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 48-55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I spent 3 days this past weekend with a ly-isherman on my back deck and did I ever learn a lot. A gentleman by the name o Mel Toponce and his lovely wie Sandy joined me in search o Trinity Smallies. Iwas able to put him on some ish and ater the proper ly was determined he tore them up at times. Although the ishing was pretty good, the companionship and growing riendship were even better. Thanks Sandy and Mel or a most enjoyable three days. The bass ishing is in ull swing with trophy size ish being taken with regularity. Jerks and cranks are working well in the 3-10' range while darterhead worms, gitzits, and brush hogs are taking the deeper ish. Now is an excellent time to take your avorite bait and just go ishing.
    City: Weaverville

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2002

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    Water Temp: 46-50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hit the lake at sae light and went to the honey hole on the North end. Bill Watson joined me in his own boat as I told him that I thought I could put him on ish. At 7:00 we weighed in our best 4 at 19 plus and I now have a photo o Bill with a six pounder in each hand. It was a good thing that we got there early because the breeze died about 8:00 and so did the bite. Bill caught his LM on Baby Brush Hogs while my smallies (to 3.86) came on darter head Pro Worms.
    City: Weaverville

    Tips: I you're going to ish darter heads in the tailings take a lot o them with you.

Saturday, March 30th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 48-54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Trinity tournament local ather son team wins with a three ish weight o 14Lbs 14oz 5-7 Largemouth 5-3 Largemouth and 4-4 smallmouth
    City: Weaverville

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    Water Temp: 46-50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Today was one o those days you dream about or me and a couple o guys who came down rom Ore. For me,a 7-10 largemouth was the highlight, backed up by a 5-10 largemouth and 3 smallies in the 4 lb. range, 15 ish in all. Shortly beore I nailed the big largemouth I watched Chris Carpenter land a 6-8 smallie, which Robert Radbourne so ably netted. Those two guys were on a sweet spot and it was a joy to watch them load the boat. I have no idea how many ish they caught but just while I was watching I'm sure that it was in the high 20's. We got together or a weigh-in and photo shoot in the middle o the river and it was determined that between the 3 o us our best 5 would go over 31 lbs. Darter heads were the key or me. They will have to tell you what was working or them.
    City: Weaverville

    Tips: The smallies were moving up and down. I the bite slows in a particular area, don't give up. They'll be back.

Wednesday, March 20th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 47-49

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The water has warmed enough to start the smash mouth action.Caught 7 smallies and one large mouth rom 2-4 lbs on a darter then went Crankin. Wow, I'd almost orgotten how much un that can be. Fish were hitting a crawdad Frenzy but the way they were hitting I guess about anything would have worked. The only thing was you had to have it banging on the rocks.
    City: Weaverville

    Tips: Here's a tip or a plug knocker. I wind mine on an old loat marker bouy. When you get hung up hook the knocker over the line and toss it and the bouy over board. 90% o the time i you keep your line tight it will knock it loose irst try. Keeps the rope organized and your hands ree.