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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 3 on a buzz bait, 2 on a rog and 4 on a spinnerbait biggest ish went 4#'s and average was 12 inchs
      City: livermore

      Tips: Don't be araid to try new lures no matter what other people think or say.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ishing was a bit slow today, managed to get 6 in the 12" range all on a buzzbait. Went around 5pm till dark and saw some that were 8+ easy wouldn't bite anything.
      City: livermore

      Tips: Fish are all suspening in schools

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      Water Temp: 60-65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Ventured out to the Island Pond on April 13th. Got on the water around 8:30am and started along the North/East wall. Weather was decent. Hooked irst bass at around 9am. Nice ish (very clean +/- 2.5 lbs.). Got him twitching a Zoom Fluke close to the shoreline up under the cover. Hooked second bass around 9:30am. Just down the wall a bit. same situation - ish was up near shore in about 2-3 eet o water. He was smaller (1 lb. range). It began raining anddidn't get another bite along the wall or near the tulies. Around 11:30, back along the wall, got third hook-up. Sun came out and got another around 11:45....missed one around12pm and had to get o the water.All ish came on Zoom Flukes near the cover. (other baits tried included: Red Yodo magic 4", Black and blue pig n jig,sluggo 6", single tail grubs)Oh well - irst day out this spring. It was nice to get thetube out on the water.Good luch ishing to ya all
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Fish are hugging the cover. Suggestion would be weightlessworms or ishlike sot baits) twitching action

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went loat tubing in the back lakes ished the middle pondrom 7:30 intill about 11 o'clock. I got one little dink 8 inches. On a worm. Another guy caught 3 with a jig in creek. Fished the island pond or a couple hours and didn'tcatch any. Fishing is a lot slower than last week but this next weekened should be productive.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Use 7 " worms rom Berkley a purple with sparkles has done very well in the past weeks

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went to back lakes in my loat tube today or a couple o hours and caught 4 bass a 3#er being the biggest.Caught all in less than 5 eet next to tules.
      City: Livermore

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went to the back lakes ater school managed to catch one little dink on a grub ishing has slowed down compared to last week. Water clearing and warming in a week or two things should start picking up.
      City: Livermore

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Like i recently said the water is very high but i did manage to catch a 6#er on a spider grub. I ound a crawdad next to the bench in about 4 inches o water it was very black i that will help any o you.
      City: livermore

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      Water Temp: 55+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: i ished all day in the back ponds or bass and i didn't get bite so i decided i would cheat and use power bait or trout. then i caught a 13#10 ounce rainbow!
      City: castro valley

      Tips: use bright colors in the ponds... they're super muddy!

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 3:00-5:00 in the back lakes I caught a 4#er on a spinerbair right next to the tules and my riend caught two in his loat tube earlier that morning.
      City: Livermore

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: tubed the main pond with a scum rog and brush hog. i caght 2 13" o the brush hog and one o the rog and won o a spinner bait
      City: castro valley

      Tips: its starting to slow down ish beor its too late

  • Shasta County
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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.