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      Water Temp: 53-57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Pit arm all week. Windy and cooler than expected, but i you could stay in one spot long enough, you'd catch ish. Most o our ish came rom the 20 t. depth, with some coming rom closer to 30. Evening was the best time o day, action improving greatly as it got later. We were inding areas where there were lots o ish concentrated, and you could catch 4-6 or more beore turning them o. Toughest thing or us was staying put long enough to get a bait down to them. Largest ish caught this week was 2 lbs, 6 oz. Baits were 7" pumpkinseed power worm and skirted grub in 1/8 oz. jig heads. Lost lots o jigs, bring plenty.
      City: Susanville

      Tips: Steep sides o secondary points and sheer clis seemed to have plenty o ish. Don't be araid to work baits vertically right under the boat, i they are there, they'll bite.

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      Water Temp: 50 - 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the NewBass Tournament out o Bridge Bay, On Saturday the weather is beautiul so we catch some rays and a ew ish too, by 8am the jackets are o or the irst time this year! We ish the SacArm and on the irst cast o his crankbait my partner is calling or the net, we get it in the boat, put it on the Will-E-Go, and drop it in the livewell. He calls or the net a ew casts later, and has me eeling like netboy. Anyway the crank bite stops ater that. WE tried brushhogs and spider jigs or awile then decide to drop-shot and split-shot. I get a couple back to back on a witches tit Magic Worm, so now we have 3 in the livewell. We drag 1 more keeper then decide we need to run. We go to another spot and try ishing the trees in the back o coves. nothing but dinks there so we back o to the points and start gettin some more keepers. When that turn o we ind a bunch o ish on a do nothin lat and cull a ew out o our limit. We go back to the weigh-in and inish in 4th place or day 1. Day 2 starts out with wind and whitecaps, we run or the lat and can't buy a bite, so we move up into the cove, still nothing, inally we start backing o toward the points and ind the ish once again in 30 eet o water! Point is tough to ish with the wind throwing trolling motor out o the water! we manage 5 keepers o the point in the wind then go o to ind some shelter. We ind another point that kind o parrellels the bank and is sheltered on one side. We go back inside the point and the water is 25 eet deep. and there is ish there :-) We quikly ill our limit and cull most o the other ish out. WE want to go back to where we started day 1 but time is limited and the lake is still rough. Heck with it we go or it. when we get there we only have a ew minutes to ish and get doubles I get a 15" ish, partner gets a dink, we cull the last 13" ish and head or the weigh in. We inished in 2nd place and the leaders did not get in the options ( good or us) So it was a un and proitable weekend Tight lines Je
      City: Suisun City

      Tips: Remember to delate Air Bladder on deep caught bass or release immedaitley

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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: PRE-FISHING FOR TOURNAMENT NEXT WEEKEND.... EARLY WOREOURSELVES OUT TRYING FOR ANY KIND OF REACTION BITE, BLADES,RIP OR CRANKS...NOTHING!!!!! WHEN OUR WRISTS AND ELBOS GAVEOUT WE PICKED OP OUR WORM RODS AND CAUGHT 11 ON SATURDAYAND 8 MORE ON SUNDAY. SUNDAY WE WERE OFF THE LAKE AT NOON.NOTHING BIG.. BUT ALL KEEPERS TO 2# PRIMARY AND SECONDARY POINTS IN 20-35 FEET
      City: ROSEVILLE

      Tips: BUY QUALITY RAINGEAR AND THERMAL UNDERWEAR.....GORTEX IS WONDERFUL STUFF.......CATTLEMANS RESTAURANT IN REDDING ISHARD TO BEAT, TRY THE FILLET MIGNON.

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      Water Temp: 48-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: CVBC Club tourney was held Sat. & Sun. Winning weight was just over 14#s or the two days. I belive the winning pattern was brown/brown jigs. Depth? Big ish were 3.0#s Sat and 2.6#s Sun. Sat I ished with TommyP and he managed to put me on some good ish, ended up tied or 1st with 7.0#s (2.6# & 2.0#s,other 3 under 1#) all mine came dragging 6" blue ghost Magic worms, o points with deep water access. Fish were caught rom 13'- 20'while there was still cloud cover. Sun cam out later and couldn't ind another pattern. Other people did well on jigs, brushhogs, morning dawn worms. Sunday I ished with Angel who was up ishing our tourney and to preish an upcoming tournament. He also put me on ish I just wasn't able to get them hooked and only managed 3 ish or 2.8#s. Since Angel was preishing I can't really remember what we were throwing, but he did alot better than I.
      City: Newark

      Tips: Keep it slow, most bites were just a little more weight on the line with the worms.

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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished riday sat with a tourney on sunday had 4 lb ish everyday with big # most ish were stagging to spawn with some sight ish . ished clear water on sot composition bottoms at depths o 2 35 eet swimming a BLUTO BAIT CUSTOM FLUKE ON WEIGHTS VERRING FROM 3/8 1/8 OZ .ish caught were good or 14.87lbs on sunday bringingour total winnings or team bluto baits to over 6000dollars ytd.
      City: OROVILLE

      Tips: DONT RELEY ON MAGIC TO WIN HAVE FAITH IN BLUTO BAITS TO TAKE YOU TO THE WINNERS CIRCLE .SEE YOU THERE

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      Water Temp: 52-53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: wet,wet,wet. ew ish (spots), all deep, main body secondary points
      City: Westwood

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: alright ellow isherman. i see alot o boats and still noones writing on these pages. come on its only a ew extra minutes. anyways i ish about 3 days a week and i mostly hit the water around 10. the best bite i ound is between 10 and 2. to ind ish i go to points with good depth. or i am inding legdes with a drop thats not noticable. i am cathcing about 13 ish a day in about 5 hours. its been a good year or me. i am dragging worms all colors and catching ish. i havent ound any rip ish yet but soon the rattle trap with start working. ish anywhere between 70 and 30 eet is the best or me. good luck
      City: redding

      Tips: drag worms..and watch or the bite

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      Water Temp: 47

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: lots o wind today, nearly 20 mph making boat positioning a bit tough, went into the Pit arm near Reynolds creek, ish still deep, 35-70t and usually ound around stumps, only 2 caught using twin tail grub in green pepper on 3/8oz jig head, tried jigging spoons also with no luck, lake rising 1/2 to 1t per day
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: 52 and dropping

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got out o town with Dave "the ishing Pol" (hes polish)Kryszak and tried to get them little spots to go. We were in the Sac arm and caught about 10 spots per each eort on the water. They were in 45-60 t. the shad were not balled up, and we got em on 3" amber worms or 2" salt and pepper reapers. You have to slow way down, and shake it and then wait or the pressure bite.No dinks, but nothing over 14" either. Good un ighting ish when you get em in 50' o water!! The points and such did not really matter, you could ind ish everywhere, it seemed i you had 70-90 t on a ledge near the 40-50 t water you could get bit.
      City: San Ramon

      Tips: No spoon ish, or spinners or rippin. Just them little worms shakin..

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing good today. Out about an hour and had limit o trout and bass. I was jigging spoons and trolling with a bugeyed zinger. had A great day .
      City: anderson

      Tips: start ishing and do not give up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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      Water Temp: 52-53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: John Lake stoked me this weekend by dragging me up to Shasta with him. We ished hard Saturday and Sunday and John taught me a lesson boating 16 or 17 spots the irst day and 6 or 7 the next including one smallmouth. I had 4 the irst day and 2 the next. We caught them all on blades in the Pit arm. John even had one boil on his pop-r. Apparently no one told the ish it's December! Water temps were 52 to 53 and visibility was about 20 eet. Wings and mushrooms at the Whale were excellent...
      City: San Luis Obispo

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: i ished both days o the weekend and got 5 ish each day. saturday i ished in my boat with no ish inder. i ound ish very scattered and caught one in every place i stoped and that was all..all ish in about 20 eet o water or less...sunday was a dierent story. i ished with a reind in about 50-70 eet o water near squaw creek entrance. i ound tons o ish but only got ive. my riend got 10. i think the spoon has a big dierence..he was using a perk minnow and i didnt have one and he got twice as many as me...i think it was the dierence..we also wormed...color didnt matter..we got about 4 on worms in same depth..good luck to all and dont orget to post your results
      City: redding

      Tips: dont orget the deep water

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      Water Temp: 65-68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sorry it took so long. Fished the Won bass Pro-am, ishingwas good Thur & Fri. ripped ish all over the McCloud armand the main lake. 1 1/2 - 2 lbers. Sat. the Tourn startsguess what ripped 1 ish Sat then had 1 2.10 lber on brn& brn jig. Help Sun went spooning I bet 40-50 13 inch-13 1/2 ish biggest ish o the day was a pound and 1/2cappie. Spooned in 60 t. Good luck guys it was great weather. Which was probably the problem. See ya soon.
      City: NACHES, WA.

      Tips: Duh spoons, pointer minnows

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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Just got back rom WON BASS tourament at Shasta.The ishing got realty tough a lot small ish.Mike Renolds caught his ish on Big Boy tube baits on wall up the Pit river.A lot o ish were caught on super spooks on points.Jerk baits working also such as pointers by Lucky Crat.Caught most o my keepers on Iovino S20 Fat Boys Texas rigged in less than 10 eet steep walls in creeks and coves.Spoons working also ind bait in creek channels with meters at 35 to 60 eet.
      City: San Jose

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished out o baily cove looking or shad. No sign o shad anywhere. went out toward silverthorn with no luck and ished under the brige also with no luck. caught one keeper on shad colored crank and that was it. No birds in area. Where have the shad gone? good luck everyone
      City: redding

      Tips: ind the shad and you will catch ish

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      Water Temp: 66-68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Excellent ishing ound in deeper water. Fished Pit on Friwith excellent results in coves o main arm. Better coves had trees and ish were at a 30-33'. Best worm was oxblood though blu-ghost was OK and so was green. Sat ished Bridge Bay and Sacarea with similar results. Fish were better inside coves at a a solid 30'. Long point outside Bridge Bay was ull o ish too.Fish were not big but 13-15". Doodle it! Split shot was tooslow.
      City: Eureka

      Tips: Doodling at 30' inside small coves o main arms. Fish onshad!

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      Water Temp: 65 ------- 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished riday or club tourney on sat.& sun. really struggled on riday. No reaction bite to speak o, couldn't ind the shad. Ended up with three keepers all day, just barely over 13". Found the bite to be tough all weekend unless you happen to catch them bustin' shad on the surace, then a spook is the ticket. also got a ew throwing cranks/ripbaits through the busting schools. or the most part we had to resort to shaking and dragging worms to get our limits. the average limit or the tourney was about 7 lb.----- not very big at all. I did have the awesome ortune o sticking a very nice 4.68 lb. largemouth while dragging a lizard!! other than that, be prepared or alot o small spots and an occasional smally. The quality ish are probably deep chasing bait. Look or the lake to turn over soon, should bring on the bite! by the way, the tournament was won with just over 16 lb. or two days.
      City: sacramento

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      Water Temp: 75-78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing so good had to go back. Caught lots o spots and a couple o bronzebacks. Worked primary and secondary points like a mad man. Fished early morning til 10AM and late aternoon starting at 6:30 PM in the Pit River. Everyone caught ish. That makes a great trip. Marked and caught ish anywhere rom 10 to 25 t. Had a couple o ish hit right at boat. Most ish were a pound and change but did catch ish that were in the two pound range. No topwater action. Followers on cranks. But most o the ish on 6" power worms and 3" chart. lunker grubs both single and twin tails. Lots o short strikes had tails missing on baits. When bites really slowed down threw live crawdad at them and caught ish.
      City: Carson City

      Tips: 6" Berkely power worms (all colors) and 3" chart. w/ silver lake lunker grubs with a 1/4 oz. dart head cast and very slow steady retrieval ish will hit.

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      Water Temp: 78-81

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught lots o numbers on the spotted bass 8-12 inches, shaking magic worms (Green Craw, Blue Ghost, and oxblood) in 0 to 25 eet o water in the late aternoon. Spinnerbaits (chart/white and white) in the mud lines o o points produced in the early aternoon. Top water bite was decent in the late evening ( Chug bug or Ricos) caught two Large mouth 2.5 and a 2.8 on chug bugs. Pitched jigs late in the morning caught another 2 large mouth 3.4 and a 5.1. Over all had a great trip. We stayed in the Squaw arm and ished the Squaw and Pit.

      Tips: Keep your line wet. Lots o spotts to be caught in the evenings shaking worms. We looked or step drop os that had rock and shade this was the key or us. Good luck and Rip Lips.

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: main body points were certainly the key. Worm bite prevailed.We had only one evening that produced a rip bite using rattlin rogues.Caught all spots sprinkled with some smallmouths.Easily 50-60 ish days.all ish were 1.7 to2lb clones. ( but what un!!)used barbless hooks and had a 0 mortality rate. Don't ask me colors... the worms were #33&82 at phils props.We were in the sacramento arm and on points 15-20 eet deep.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: n/a