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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Dang Bryce, or numbers you kicked jerry's and my butt yesterday. WE only had nine ish between us,( I was lucky enough to get seven), my biggest was 1.87. They were all atties, ull o bait. We launced out o Centimudi, and ish his water, all within 2 miles o the dam. Jigs were not the predominant bait,(although we each got a nice smallie on such). The reaction bite was awull.(one ish the irst hour, 1.6 )Drop shotting was the ticket, in 20'-30' o points. The bait was scattered ater thursday's winds.
      City: Livermore/Redding soon!

      Tips: Our ish seemed slugish and unwilling to eat much. But ater catching these atties, it's apparent they have had plenty to eat.

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      Water Temp: 42

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: got in at Keith's landing at 0615, air temp 24 degrees, water down 4 eet, sounds a bit unny, right? I was up in Oregon visiting my riend Keith Ogawa and going out or some steelhead onthe Rogue which just happens to low past his house. We went with one o his riends, Todd Puett who operates his own guide service (541)772-3502. Got 21 ish on Friday and 18 on Saturday pulling plugs and side driting a unique bait that Todd ties up. Most came on Todd's special and averaged 4-6 lbs with most being hatchery ish with a ew wild ish thrown in. The early mornings were very nippy but warmed to 60+ by noon. We ished a section rom the rattlesnake rapids down to Touvelle and caught ish in just about every place we stopped, the wild ish were much more acrobatic than the hatchery ish. Todd really knows the river, and he is very patient, even with a pain in the butt (Keith) in the boat. (just kidding, Keith) Had a great time and i your going that way and want to ish the Smith, Chetco, or the Rogue, give Todd a call. He is good.
      City: Redding

      Tips: summer steelhead still in the river and providing consistent hookups.

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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Sac Arm around the Tsasdi Resort area(a nice place to stay, i recommend it i your staying on the lake. Fished the weekend and caught a decent amount. ished about an hour riday night caught about 9-10 on the dropshot and a couple on a jig with a 6" bubble gum worm. the next day started about 6am and ished the whole day. had my cousin, girlriend and another riend with me. i caught about 35 or the day and my other companions brought in about 30 all together. most still caught on the drop shot and the others on minnows and an occasional on a craw dad. sunday was about the same my riend and i went with a guy to troll or some trout, caught a ew around the Sugarloa area, but i think the ish are moving up more near Tsasdi. Fishing decent but not as good as other years.
      City: Rancho Cordova

      Tips: Use drop shot rig, most bass caught around 15-35' o water. trout staying about 0-8' rom the surace

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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WELL ITS HARD TO BE HUMBLE BUT IF YOU READ BRYCES FISHING REPORT YES I DID CATCH THE KICKER FISH (NOTHING TO IT) but a lot o luck and the blond doing a good job on the net.we caught many dinks and a ew keeper ish.most o the ish were in or around timber,except the 2.5 and i was ishing a cut bank in 30t o water with a 6 inch purple worm texas rigged.we ished mostly the main lake in the morning where the bigger ish was caught and moved to the pit in the ater noon. still some house boaters and jet skis but they should slow down when we get some cooler weather. still have two lanes at jones valley boat ramp but it is getting real tight launching two at the same time. had a great day with bryce and susan they sure like to ish . looking orward to another little husband and wie turkey shoot.
      City: Anderson

      Tips: ish rom the bank out to 25t colors that work blue, mgm lake record worm ,rainbow color, pink lots o shad balls on sac arm and also some higer up on pit arm

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      Water Temp: 72-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My son out did me this trip. We ished Sacromento and Pit arms. we tried all our tricks and some o Jerry's too. we caught up to Jerry Tuesday and had a great time jokin and ishin. Thanks or showing us the jones valley side Jerry. your ishing tips and navigation tips were great. I ended up so ar up the river the curent was pushing me back. Oops easy back ha ha. Also thanks to MGM lures or those great baits.Next year I will try October. I would also like to thank the other locals on the watter or their riendliness and chat. See ya next year
      City: Watsonville

      Tips: By all means go see MGM lures. They are great people with lots o good ino and buy some baits too.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: THIS IS NOT A FISHING REPORT, LAURALEE WALLACE IF YOU READ THIS SEND YOUR EMAIL ADDREESS AND ILL SEND YOU SOME INFO ON SHASTA LAKE
      City: ANDERSON

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      Water Temp: 71-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spent the week on a vacationing on Shasta. Man I love this lake. Only got to spend a ew hours each morning and aternoon ishing and teaching some ishermen taking a irst crack at bass ishing, but did manage to have a great time. Caught 20 to 50 bass a day with about hal being undersized. Did manage quite a ew over 2# and 3 or 4 that were over 3#. On Tuesday morning we had a ew top water blowups, but they were not eating the bait. Jig bite was the ticket. Even the novices were catching them on a 3/8 once jig with a 5" Yamamoto twin tail grub as a trailer. Depths varied rom 10-30 eet with the best numbers comming o steep walls in the aternoon. Points were best in the morning. Lots o ish o the walls across rom Beehive on the Sac arm including some ish I would take in any Shasta tournament. It you eel a hit while retrieving the jig, let it drop to bottom again. This accounted or 2 o the bigest ish that each went approx 3.5#. They would chase it to the bottom and the ight was on. Man I love the way those spots ight on light tackle.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: The two best color combinations that worked or me were a green jig with a green trailer and a brown/purple jig with a purple trailer. I never tried plain old brown, but one o the other guys was killing them with it, so color may not have been all that important.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Get ready bubba, (jerry) I'm a comin to put a whoopin on ya!!!!!!!!! Big ish or breakast Sunday morning? You know I've always got something up my sleeve!!!!!!!!
      City: San Leandro,Ca.

      Tips: Can you say #99 getzit????????

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      Water Temp: HOT

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I KNOW THAT THIS ISN'T A FORUM BUT. I DO NOT KNOW JERRY BUT I HAVE MET THE PAIR THAT GAVE HIM A HARD TIME A 100 TIMES OVER. IT IS A CASE OF "SHOW ME YOURS AND...." I DO NOT CARE IF IT IS BASS FISHING OR BIRD HUNTING ETC. JERRY WHENEVER YOU WANT TO KNOW WHERE THE BASS FISHING IS GOOD IN NORTHERN NEVADA JUST LET ME KNOW. THERE ARE MORE JERKS IN BASS FISHING THAN THERE ARE BASS
      City: WELLINGTON,NV

      Tips: CALL ME IN FEBRUARY 2003 AND I'LL PUT YOU ON GREAT BASS FISHING IN NO. NEVADA

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: my dad and I had the pleasure o going on a night trip with Jerry last night. got in at centimudi at 8:30, and ater a ew dock problems, we were o to the big backbone. I was throwing a yammamoto hulagrub in #204 and 168. I had a small large mouth right o the bottom within about hal an hour, but nothing or awhile. had many hits put they took it and let it o almost right away. inally at about 11:00 pm we started getting ish o o steep rock walls just throwing to the bank and dragging it back,we had 17 in the boat with 3 coming o right at the boat, no real size but still un. out o the water at 12:30 and went to Denny's or an early breakast. anyone who gets the chance to ish with Jerry is in or a treat we had a great time, cant wait to do it again.
      City: redding

      Tips: hula grubs in 168 and 204 thats what worked last night also steep rock walls seemed to be the hot ticket.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: For those interested, "jerry" wanted me to post that his computer went down awhile ago, so he'll be o-line till urther notice.....
      City: San Leandro,Ca

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Umpqua Valley Bassmasters o Roseburg OR held yearly Shasta tournament 6/1-6/2. Weather was overcast and muggy or most o Saturday and clear or Sunday. My partner and I ound lots o ish on main lake points and humps up the Pit and the Sac arms. We had a ew topwater ish each morning and then switched to darterheading 6" worms. We ended up with 10 ish or 22.4 lbs, and that was enough or irst place. Second place had 21.5 lbs, and third was at 16.09.
      City: Eugene OR

      Tips: Mother's Finest 6" worms (available at Phil's props) in oxblood and MF-1 colors were working very well or us.

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      Water Temp: N.a.

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Thought I would get in one more day beore the long holiday week end.Went out o Jones Valleyat day break heavy wind making it hard to use top water.Tried spinner bait and that was the hot bait.Pointed the bow toward shore and let the wind do the rest.Caught 3 small mouth and35 spots.Nothing better than 1 3/4.Had one hook up that hit like a reight train,really heavy,I set the hook and my line snapped about 5 eet o the end o the rod. Not sure what happened Ialways use resh line?
      City: Corning

      Tips: Heavy wind and spinner bait SHASTA SPECIAL COMBO

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      Water Temp: 58-61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went up or the irst time to shasta and stayed on a house boat in the sac river arm. Had a blast and caught soo many ish. Fished or a hal day riday, established a pattern and ran it till monday. Caught 40-50 keepers a day by crankin deep divers on steep banks and then mid day the dropshot took them all on blu banks. the ish were 10-45 t deep. it did not take much just ind the ish and cast to them. weighed in just shy o 20lbs or our two day tounament(ten ish).Hope this helps someone. Shasta was awesome.
      City: antioch

      Tips: shad/blue or cranks and worms. Take your drop shot worm and bite an inch o o it. all the bigger ish came on a 2 or 3" worm deep. also caught a ew two pounders on a "lip this" spot remover jig.

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      Water Temp: 56-63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spent a ew days ishing Shasta or the WB tournament. Thursday and Friday had a great bite going in the Willows catching decent numbers and some up to 2.6# on Senkos and worms. That bite slowed on Saturday and Sunday ater the minor ront passed on Friday. The jig/C-rig bite then picked up as the ish seemed to drop to the bottom rom their suspended positions and move a little deeper to the 18-25 oot range. Kept gettin stuck having un during preish catching the 13" spots. The dropshot bite is awesome on points and near willows. Use electronics to ind ish in the 25-35 oot range on main cove points and drop a 4" Robo Worm in Aaron's Magic. About the time the weight hits bottom you will have a bite. Don't shake it much, just let it set or slowly raise and lower the worm. Some points are loaded and you can catch 20-30 ish per hour although all seemed to be 13" clones.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Shasta seems to be improving in size o ish. Keeping a ew 13-14" spots will only help it improve, but release the largemouth and smallmouth.

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      Water Temp: 48.9-54.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: report or 4-2-02 thru 4-702, lake up near 12t and still rising, the spawn is under way, went out with Steve and Carol rom Reno with their daughter, Andrea and her hubby, Pete on a silvethorn boat on Tues-Thurs and had a great time. We ished early and late all three days and the bite is on big time, the mornings ound us throwing a ew rip baits with no success to speak o but the jig and worm bite was something else with some good ish all three days. Pete is new to bass ishing but I igure he got the hang o it when he hooked up with a 2.7 black on Thursday around 9 am in the og. The weather has been very warm, into the 90's and not getting too cold at night, we were camped out in the McCloud in Keluche Creek and ished as ar north as ellery creek and south to the erry. most ish were dinks as usuall but we did have a dozen over 2lbs with Pete's being the biggest. My wie Bronla, really got into them good on Tuesday evening outside Nosoni Creek. My trip today put me in the water at 628 am, air temp 44 and the water at the Hirz Bay ramp was 53.5, went into Kamloops and ound a bunch o cruisers and caught 35 or thereabouts but they were all small with the exception o one at 1.8.. I did see a ew spots on beds in the back but I let them alone, one looked to go around 4 lbs and was in 6 eet o water on a red mud bank. The western bass guys came lying by abot 635 am and only three or our boats went up above me with a handul into and around Hirz Bay. The best size producing worm was the MGM 156, it was the best hands down, tossing jigs was the most productive and the MGM 107 accounted or the best 5 ish by Carol, Steve and Pete on Wednesday evening. got out today a little late so I didn't make it to the weigh-in, very warm day with light winds.
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: 53 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished up the Mcloud back in a cove and client pops a dozen or so on a texas rigged worm. Went back to work willows but there was a houseboat on them. Water wasn't as warm as mainlake stu so headed or the pit. Caught ish rom all the way out to all the way in. Several nice ish in a muddy cove with brush and 62 degree water. Found some more ish cruising way back and started catching them on a weightless worm. Clients thought it was cool to see the ish come up and hit the worm, me too. Forty or so ish with best weighing two poinds, seven ounces on the normark.Had to hand o the rod or a while so clients could get a eel or that sot bite.p.s. anyone coming back in a cove at ull throttle on me is asking or a problem, especially when I have guests in my boat!!! please honor the 5 mph markers.
      City: Shasta Lake

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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing report rom Sunday on the Delta page. Hey Jerry, your not the only one that does that, oops! Wednesday cranked some ish back in warm muddy coves and bladed ish o steep windy blus. Three over two but had to cover lots o water but was un to throw reaction stu. Thursday went out looking or easy ish or clients this Sunday. Found ish stacking up on points and suspending about ive eet o the bottom. Really easy to graph, dropshot and move on. Fish should be back and in the willows really soon i not already. Keep your eyes peeled or cruisers and i in doubt hit the points. Check out my website at www.rippinrobs.com.
      City: Shasta Lake

      Tips: Better ish on shallow lat points on Wedn. and Thurs. but that could all change by the weekend.

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      Water Temp: 52-57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished all week mostly in the Pit River arm. Caught ish rom shore down to 40 t. The consistant producing depth was about 20 t. We got several pretty nice bass, 2 lb. or better range. I lost one at the boat that was a little bigger, came o as I was reaching down to lip it. We caught 131 ish in 5 days, not our best, but it was sure nice to be out. Most o our ish were caught on jigs, but I did get a couple that slammed my white spinnerbait. Water was warming nicely all week.
      City: Susanville

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: This isn't a report. I have a question. It is mainly or Jerry but anyone else can answer. I ish Shasta a ew times a year and have never seen the MGM worms u always talk about using. I was wondering i u could tell me a place in that area where i can ind them because I will be up there this weekend. Does the Basshole have them? Thanks, Larry
      City: Rancho Cordova