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  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: Low 60's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished both days 5 am to 6 pm. On Thursday, no morning bite, but good aternoon bite. Fity spots rom real small to two lbs, average about 13". Fished Pit arm, steeper walls were better. Used sot plastics to include tubes, but mostly 4 & 5" worms. Any color I tried worked. Friday, the bite was practically all day and under the same conditions. Most ish were in 1 to 10 eet. Fish were very aggressive and many were swallowing the baits.
      City: Davis

      Tips: It was deinitely a innesse bite as I only got one bite on a lizzard. The skinny straight tail worms seemed to work best or me.

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      Water Temp: 61-64 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the upper Sacramento Arm Thursday aternoon. Two o us boated 9 ish in two hrs -- hal to 1-lb range. Fished the Pit Arm on Friday and Saturday. 40 ish on Friday and 50 on Saturday -- several up to 3 lbs. All but one caught on 4.5 inch hand poured worms . Most o the ish were on the main lake points, but some well back into the coves. Good Trip, beautiul weather.
      City: Reno, NV

      Tips: - blue ghost, oxblood and motor oil all w/ chartruse tail. Texas rig or split shot rig in 2-35 eet o water. Move it slow or shake it in place.

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      Water Temp: 58-63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spent 4 days on Shasta with the amily. Managed to get in quite a bit o ishing time. caught 20 to 40 ish a day up to about 3#s. Fish were rom the surace down to about 25 eet. Good rip bait (Pointer) bite going in the mornings. Switched to lukes in the aternoon the irst couple o days. Spent the last 2 days trying crank baits and C-rigs with good luck on both.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Shad pattern hard baits and light colored plastics were working best or me. C-rigging the Delta Melon Gator Pups worked very well.

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      Water Temp: 57-61+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tri-Valley Bassmasters had their Shasta tourny during a stormy weekend. Rained both Sat. & Sun. Wind worse on Sat. Air temp cool. Even with the wind we could still see the bottom in 10-12 eet o water.Limits were the order o the day.Bigger ish & heavier limits (only 11-6 or 7 ish) caught on Sat.We worked or the ish, and were rewarded with limits that are typical or Shasta, but those small ish are still un to catch.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Limits caught using spinner baits (white), worms (Predator 4" paddle tail in #709

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      Water Temp: 58-61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: the spawn is deinitely on or the spots, ish being caught just about everywhere, rained the past ew days but didn't turn the ish o, went out with Mike and Dave rom San Jose on Friday and had a great time, Dave is a trout isherman and I introduced him to jig ishing, he caught a couple Friday morning and ished a tourney on Sat using the jigs and kicked butt, He had a smile a oot wide at Packers when he and Mike pulled in, Saw a nice 6lb plus spot taken by another guy who pulled up with shaking hands asking us to take his photo, nice big emale with a bloody tail taken out o 12t o water at 830 AM on a brown jig, Now is the time to get ater the spots, the smallmouth are getting ready so that will turn on shortly, haven't seena largemouth in two weeks, I'm going out in the early AM and park in ront o the dam or some salmon, 13 lber taken out last thursday morning on cut anchovy tail.
      City: Redding

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We went all day and cauhgt a ew. Caught a 4 pounder back in the cover. We caught a ew in hte pit arm. We were catching them on oxblood with the chartrouse tail and a ew on green weenies. We were using a texas rig ishing close to the bottom.
      City: redding

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      Water Temp: 55-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished WCB Pro-Am. Most ish came on rip baits including a 5# 10oz largemouth on Friday. Second best getter was a purple Yamamoto Lizard pulled through the tops o submerged willows.
      City: Fair Oaks

      Tips: Got to go through large numbers o small ish to cull a decent limit.

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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