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  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out around 2:00 yesterday aternoon, the "shad bite" is in ull orce. The only way I could get em to eat a jig is by throwing parallel to the vertical banks, working it out horizontally has just died, I had been getting at least one ish over 3 pounds or a month, last 3 times no such luck. Dropshotting and 1/8oz dartheads or suspended ish or numbers, I havent thrown much topwater because o the time I have been on the lake. Next week I'll go out early or that, and I will try to stay with blades and cranks during the day.
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: God Bless America. May we remember and prayer or each other every day. Started out Wed. morning optomistic and somber. Fished topwater on some o my avorite places, no blow ups. Ripped some okay ish on a Staysee Pointer Minnow using 8lb. line. It seems to help. No jig ish. Started point hoping up the Sac. and graphing bait. Resorted to dropshsoting with a #39 idget(a kind o mini 3" slugo, a 4" worm worked just ine too). Ended up with a numbers day and not a size day. Water is getting clear and reaction bite was tough, even with overcast skies.
      City: Shasta Lake

      Tips: I your normal stu is dying try dropshoting on some main lake points. I you don't know how to dropshot e-mail me and I'll try to help. Phil's can also set you up with whatever you need. God Bless. Rob.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: In at Jones Valley at 6:00AM. Two o Jones Valley Pt. irst thing on jigs. Ran up the Pit. One more on jig,2more on Spook, the rest on 4" worms. MGM#34, 54, 109. Twenty ish total. Largest 2.0, lots o short at ones.(At least I out ished my wie, 13 to 7, Thanks Jerry.)
      City: Cottonwood

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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Packers Bay 6:00 a.m. Looked like there was a night tourney as I saw several boat lights on points as I drove over the Pit River bridge. As I was ishing waiting or sae light I saw another tourney (about ity boats) coming out o Bridge Bay. Skiers are going, tourneys are coming. Gave them some space and popped a 2-9 and a 2-14 on a Super Spook (blue back). Fish came between eight and ten on main body points around Ski Island. Since I didn't have anyone with me I continued throwing Mr. Spook the rest o the day. Not so smart. Oh well, nothing ventured nothing gained. I anyone wants to buy a Cameron Rod I would think twice about it. I swung the 2-14 in on a 7' medium-heavy action Cameron and snapped it in hal. what a joke. Lake was pretty busy and dead calm. My jig ish were all small, hence going or it with the Spook.
      City: Shasta Lake

      Tips: Super Spooks are very versatile. They can also deter those ew pesky jet skiers that remain. Can I say that?

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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I thought I was on Clear Lake today with all the wind. Houseboat was camped where I wanted to start. Don't you hate that. Oh well. Found some bait but no reaction bites. Bite was slow to start with. Picked up ish in iteen eet or the most part. Two best were 3.4 and 3.6 o the same wind blown point. Not a bad day considering the 30mph wind. All ish came on wind blown points on 1/2 oz. brown or pumpkin jigs. Slow bite. I just through it out and kept a little tension on it. I am married to a great ga. She bought me (another) Loomis IMX today. Should I be suspicious?
      City: Shasta Lake

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      Water Temp: 75-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: oldest son, russell up or two days to ish and attempt to redeem himsel so we went out Sat morning and Sun morning,got in at Packers satuday morning at 0530 at 59 degrees, lake going down past 88.68 t ran over into the pit near Jones Valley point, he gets irst ish on irst ast but it gets o, third cast he gets another but it hops o at the boat, I thorw to a stump and get one on and get it in so breakast is again on him, had about 15 total with six on topwater and the rest on jigs, the bite shut down at 7 am so we let, my best alittle over 2.5 came on the MGM #109 twin tail skirted grub that I ound in the bottom one bag, he decides to bet breakast again tomorrow as we are eating at the giant orange, when is this kid gonna learn?On Sunday morning we drive up to hirz bay to get away rom the crowds and pput in at 5am, we motored over near the entrance to Campbell Creek where he gets bit right o the bat again about 3 times but misses them, I was tossing a jitterbug or about 10 minutes with no takers, picked up my jig rod and get in a little 8 inch bass that wins breakast again(the bet being on the irst bass in the boat) We run upstream to Nosoni creek and spend the rest o the morning up there till 930 am or 22 to 2.5lbs with no top water takers, nobody else showed up till 9am so it was great this am with a north wind at about 10mph that kept things a little cool but comortable, ran through two shad balls and they were getting beat up by small bass, the water temp at the top o nosoni was down to 75 degrees, I expect things will start to cool soon, water still very muddy in most areas but ater tomorrow the lake will clean itsel up. ABA is on tap or next weekend, they should do well.
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Packers Bay at 6:15. Was a warm night so went or some topwater action. First cast okay ish on windblown point on blades. Ten minutes later ive pounds our oz. on a Super Spook. Did I orget to say that this was a double? ( Two two pound ten oz. ish on one cast). Made you look. One more two plus on a jig and it was over or me. Lots o short bites on my jig and no more topwater. Spooned a couple deep but no size. Lake started to get busy. Its almost over or them though, at last.
      City: Shasta Lake

      Tips: Topwater ish came o small lat points where I knew there was some baitish. Topwater died or me as soon as the sun hit the water.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Preished or the Anglers Choice tournie hal o Saturday and the tournament Sunday. Could not buy a topwater bite. We ished main lake points and got bit drop shotting and throwing jigs. Most o the ish were 15-30t and were spitting up 1/8" shad. Biggest ish or two days was a measly 2.5lb spot. First place in the tournie said they were "rippin" and second place was throwing jigs. Both teams had 10lbs or ive ish. We also ished a little riday night throwing jigs. Given the chance this is when I would ish. We got better ish and more bites
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: Most o the main lake points have ish but we got more bites on points with a lot o bait. We got more bites where we could see the bass chasing bait on the graph.

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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: In at Packers Bay at 7:30 a.m. Started looking or baitish and wasn't hard to ind. Graphed ish under bait on mainlake points. Best technique was dropping jigs right on their heads in about 20 to 25 eet o water. Plenty o decent ish (1.5 to 2.0) but no toads. Caught most o my ish by graphing them irst and just letting it sit in ront o them.
      City: Shasta Lake, CA

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Shasta County's sheri's oicial's bend over to please skiers. Their decission to overturn the recent skiing restrictions relects their total lack o respect and consideration or the numerous pleasure baoters and isherman who are continuosly harrassed by the rude, obnoxious, and illegal behavior o wakeboarders, skiers, and jet skiers. The sheris department is unable or unwilling to even enorce the existing rule and regs. Since less than 5 percent o the lake is set aside as 5mi. per hour or no ski it is hardly asking to much to set aside a little more. .

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      Water Temp: 72-76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Steve and Carol rom Reno showed up on Sunday and o we went, got into the McCloud in the evening and ran over near the erry or about 15 on jigs and the MGM 109, nothing big but they were active, lake down to 41t, Steve and I went back out early Monday morning at Jones valley, rolled up on Mariners Point and Steve is tossing a spook, irst cast he picks up a very spunky 2 + small mouth that jumps o at the boat, we move a bit and I pick up a spot on a jig, and then nothing, we run up the pit hitting dierent spots near Browns Canyon or one more spot and that was that, weather ront moving in and temps cooled some 25 degrees, laked dropped a oot in 14 hours, go back out monday evening near the bubbles at the Pit/Mccloud and get on about a dozen with a ew to 2 lbs on brown jigs and get out o the water late and it is starting to rain a little, get up late on tuesday and the rain starts about noon, we put in at Packers at 1230, temp down to 68 water at 73, lake down to 44 t, ran up near marshmallow point and things are slow till about 430 pm and I start picking up some decent 2+ spots on jigs, the MGM109 &127 and the #89 raspberry wine in a 4 inch hooktail, it was really good getting 4 in a row, haven't used this worm at all but I will now! ended up with a dozen in the boat and lost 6 at the boat missing about 15 others, Steve and Carol did well with Carol whipping her husband AGAIN, she has really picked up the eel with the jigs. My wie only caught one and sat there quietly getting soaked and letting me ish, Ater no. 12 she said to take her home. the Sac arm is much clearer than the Pit or squaw creek and Steve and I are headed that way in the morning. Great aternoon and evening bite, just so/so in the morning
      City: Redding

      Tips: good results with brown jigs, the MGM109,127 and the #89. spooks and the pointer minnow in aurora black are productive in the morning.

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      Water Temp: unkown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went ishing with my ather-in-law bass ishing was slow in the Squaw creek area. so we decided to go or some samom ishing at the dam.The ishing was great, the ranged rom 70 eet to 100 eet.We landed lots o ish and released lots o ish.We were using anchovies but some other people were using white jigs.
      City: Klamath Falls,Or.97601

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 4 day house boat trip with some ishing buddys and what a great time! This is a BIG BIG lake. Nailed them on Thurs and Fri with yellow and white spinner baits. Limping Lew nailed 22 or the day on his trusty yellow spinner bait with a nice 2lb bronze back as the topper. Also took a couple o mutts on grubs. Saturday & Sunday the bite was almost completly shut down. Probably should have gone deeper as we stuck to the topwater stu; hindsight being 20/20. Wondering o there are any big bass in this lake? Our topper was 2.5 lbs ater boating around 50.
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: keep changing lures even i you nailed them the day beore. When they stop, switch it up....wish I did.

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      Water Temp: 66-70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: didn't post my activities last week as I had a ew riends ishing Newbass yesterday and 100% today so here goes, I started noticing a mass exodus o bed ish on the 10th thru the 13th, went out monday the 14th and one cove I was ishing looked like the Oakland Coliseum ater a Raider Game, just a ew stragglers let behind, we are deinitely post spawn, tuesday the 15th greeted me with ideal conditions, light rain and very little wind, my irst ive went 18.1 and my best 7 went 23.1 on a brown jig(the biggest at 4.2) the rest came on the MGM 127 4inch and a MGM 109 3 inch reaper, wow, what a morning that was. Wednesday and thursday were mostly dinks with a 3.8 on thursday, early am ish were out o a oot to 18t, later ish were 15-25t and one came out o 70 t but suspended at about 35 eet, the lake is dropping quickly and is now at 23.4 t with some great mudlines orming with all the wind we have had, we are moving towards the typical summer pattern, My riend Ralph White (the guy that got his butt kicked by Robin Lentz) redeemed himsel yesterday with the assistance o his partner, Bill McLaughlin, by bringing to the scales a 21 plus limit anchored by a 6.05 and a 5 plus spot, the New Bass winners had a lttle better than a 22 lb limit. I ur coming this way be prepared or the wind, a major high pressure system is continuing to build and the north winds will continue. I want to say HI to Carol and Steve Pendill, they got a new trolling motor and now I can't hear them coming, the last one sounded like a stern wheeler on the Mississippi, Carol the bears are down now, (we sent u a photo) so u will have to check in at that motel we told you guys about.
      City: Redding

      Tips: start looking deeper as the day wears on, the MGM 127 4 inch and a MGM 109 in the reaper shape is working good, top water will still work i ur out their when its only pink out in the am. I am usisng a 5inch suspending jerkbait in a rainbow trout pattern, a riend is having success with a small white blade with hammered nickel willow leas.

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WENT ON MC CLOUD ARM TODAY. STARTED FISHING WILLOWS AND CAUGHT A FEW SMALL SPOTS.ON MGM WORMS. WENY TO WHITE TERMINATOR 3/8 OZ SPINNER BAIT ON ROCK BANKS AND HAD FUN. CAUGHT FISH UP TO 2 1/2 LBS AND HAD DOUBLES TWICE. THE OVERCAST AND LIGHT RAIN MADE BLADES THE HOT DEAL TODAY NOT MUCH FOR BOATS OUT TODAY SO THERE WAS LOTS OF GOOD WATER TO FISH.
      City: ANDERSON

      Tips: WHITE 3/8 OZ SPINNER BAITS WAS GREAT TODAY, TRY ROCK BANKS AND FLATS THERE THERES SOME NICE FISH IN THESE PLACES

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished riday and saturday.riday AM bite was good on smoke4in. senkos just letting them sink in backs o cuts in covesNothing big but decent ish.Rest o day was tough.Searched or ish moving up on mud banks and in muddy water ound none.Saturday only one decent ish on senko pattern.Caughtdinks in 20-25 t. with morning dawn chart tail and chartgrub till it got boring.Talked to guys in room next to me atthe motel and they caught decent ish on senko pattern andworms even same colors I tried.They too ished cuts rom 25eet to the back shallows.Diernce was they ished main lake cuts with willows in them.I have a lot to learn aboutShasta.Did got to Shastina on way back Sunday and caught sixall over 3# in our hours.
      City: medord

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      Water Temp: 58to65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Shasta Saturday and the reason I waited to post is aconlict o interest in some locals ishing WON Bass Team onthe lake. Jerry, was right the ishin' got a little more sensitive or some reason but or my pure enjoyment o the luke bite that can be had this time o year I decided to stick with it. The morning at all the "hot" willows I hadcaught 15lb limts in the weeks past had went dead...couldsee the ish comin' up to the bait and turnin' (this is notan unusual occurrence and it seems to run in cycles in certain areas or times o the day or month..I decided to runup the Squaw to ish the clis in the shade and all hell broke loose to this pattern..I ended up with two over threepounds and many solid two's!!! Yes, these spots do spawn oncli lines as well on ledges with some gravel. Came backto ish some o my willows (never give up on the producitiveones) and some o them began to produce late in the aternoon..ended the day with near 14lbs. Next week the big gals should start lockin' on the beds. Did not see the"cruisers" I'd seen in weeks past but one spot I caught atover 2lbs had six bass come up with her as I hooked her thatwere well over 3lbs and one that was in the pack that waswell over ive.
      City: Redding

      Tips: I you like the luke bite you got to stick with it!!!!Calm water is not the best need some ripple and/or wave action to assist the pattern o luke ihin'and hold on toyour rod as the big ones like to yank it out o your hand!!!

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      Water Temp: 57-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My uncle and I spent the last two days in the pit rom Jones 'valley to 12 miles upstream, temps upsteam ound clear up to 61 this am and tons o cruising male bass, emales on beds and things are getting going or the spawn, the MGM 127 4 inch and the blue ghost #69 in a 3 inch idget were the hot items today, the larger ish came on the #69. My twin tail skirted jigs in pumpkin pepper were good or the irt 20 minutes or so ater 545 am, no crank bait bite or us, many ish in the back o coves on all the lat spots and in and around the willows, located Carol and Steve rom Reno and ollowed them around or a bit and hit their campsite or the aternoon siesta, back at it around 430 pm the temp was near 80 and no wind, a bunch o dinks is all we could manage. Early, very early am is the best right now, the traic picks up considerably ater 7 am, 60 rigs in at Jones Valley this aternoon, jet skiers showing up and skiers also. Keith Ogawa I lost ur e-mail, resend and we are on or Saturday evening.
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: 52-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a 2 day tourney with 105 teams. Finished in 17th place using oxblood worms and purple weenie worms on drop shot rigs ishing steep rock banks. Most o the better ish came in the 15-25' depth. Alot o dinks were caught in the 5-10' range. Caught up to 40 ish each day with about hal o these keeper size. Was able to cull 5 or 6 times each day. Our biggest ish came on a luke in the early morning shade. Fish was 2.53#.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Major cold ront came through on Thursday and Friday. Fish wanted the bait moved very slowly. Little ish were very agressive, with the bigger keeper sized ish just on.

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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished pit river arm rom 4-15 to 4-18 with my son. best day was tuesday with 14 ish to 2.8lb. in the boat. most came o 4inch pearl senko's suspended in the tree's in 20 eet o water. bladed and cranked the murkey banks with great sucsess. chartruse and white worked well. was shown a double digit largemouth holding on a bed in 18inches o water. jigged the bed till she ate the jigged but came unbuttoned when she exploded through the manzanita.
      City: hayward