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  • Coos County, Oregon
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: water still coming up water murky fished last weekend cought 8, 2 four pounders couple threes and the rest were average 2 pounders. just got back there today and boy was it tough, managed to boat three couldnt feel my fingers may have had more on to darn cold. All the fish were cought on a carolina rig with a lucky strike rib worm grape, I heard other boats catching them on rattle traps ripping them through the grass. last weeks fish all on spinnerbaits.
      City: creswell

      Tips: oh by the way i was fishing cottage grove res. not tenmile. good luck and tight lines.

  • Trinity County, California
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Robert.
      2.5 to 3.5 inch Green pumpin/light brown tubes. Use a craw scent. find rock piles, slowly work the tube down the side. Use just enough weight to feel the bottom, and use light line (6-8 lb). If the wind picks up throw jerk baits. Good luck.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spillway Elevation 2368' Lake should be right around 103' down.
      City: McKinleyville

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I am just trying to make sure that the facts were right. I love to fish trinity but i have a feeling that it is going to be a while before anyone actually pulls out a record smallmouth out of there. Unless they keep dumping the water out of it for the salmon. Only if the fish and game knew how to manage the wild game here in california then they wouldnt have this so called crisis to save the salmon. They really need to learn how to manage there big game animals, fish, and there money. Because it is crap that our license fees keep going up and it all seems to go to the stupid government.
      City: redding

      Tips: We need a new governor that is a true republican. Ted Nugent For California Governor.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Dear Mr. Mode,
      Dear Mr. Mode,
      I read your response on Western Bass and I was deeply disturbed by
      what you said. Now, I have many years experiance in dealing with people
      who have anger management problems. I feel you are a text book case.
      You should immediately seek professional treatment before the problem
      reaches a crisis stage. If you have any questions on where to seek this
      help, please feel free to email and I will send you a list of Doctors
      in your area. This will remain confidential. Thank you very much for
      taking the time to read this.

      Keep in touch,
      Thomas

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hey John Mode
      get off the site. you are an idiot and no one wants you here.

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      Water Temp: I'd like to kno

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I am planning a trinity trip for this weekend. Just looking for anyone willing to give up some info. I am not fishing any tournaments, just looking for a big fish. Any help would be much appreciated. sorry to use this page for this. But I hope to post a real report soon.
      City: Mckinleyville

      Tips: Help a fellow fisherman out. what comes around goes around.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I'll be heading up to Wyntoon from 4/30-5/6....Any tips for a so cal guy on what will be going on around that time...
      City: Canyon Lake

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      Water Temp: 68-70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Some folks are just die hard Trinity lovers. The folks I fished with last week came back for a couple more days of that incredible topwater action. After the cold front this weekend which dropped the temp several degrees, the Topwater bite just didn't materialize yesterday. The topwater bite has been a game of patience, cast and let sit. We were all shivering so bad it was impossible not to move the Pop-R. Would have been great if we'd been shakin worms, it would have happened automatically. In fact the whole day was pretty tough. I asked them back for another try today and it sure paid off. A 5+ smallie smacked a Pop-R about 7:45 this morning. Clients went home very happy campers. I don't know how long this topwater bite is going to last but I sure wish I could be there every day for a while and find out. There has been a hatch of very small bugs going on and I expect it has the fish looking up. We were catching topwater fish at noon today.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: Very few fish have hit topwaters on the retrieve and although we've been fishing Pop-R's a lot it seems that anything that floats will catch fish if left there long enough. We caught fish on cranks and jerks as well. Just don't crank or jerk em.

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      Water Temp: 72-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well John I think you were right. I was there for the weekend camping and got a little fishing worked into the weekend. For me the bite improved as the day went on with afternoons being the best. Saturday morning picked up a few fish quickly on a silver rattle trap. These fish were relating to points. Tried jigs for quite a while, but only picked up a couple fish. Changed to drop shot and picked up serveral more. Went out with the family late in the afternoon and the fish were on the stumps. Picked up 5 fish in about 30 minutes throwing drop shot 6" New Ayu worms near stumps in 6' to 20'. Best fish was a 3.8 LM. Sunday morning I ran to a creek arm and decided to fish there till 10:00am. Nothing until the sun was up then caught them real good. Caught one 2.9# SM off a bed. Did see 3 SM still on beds, but they were VERY spooky. After that started blasting down the bank hitting stumps. Caught about 15 fish in a couple hours with best 5 being all SM from 2.8# to 3.3# All were on a drop shot.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Was my first trip to this lake. There is some great Small Mouth fishing at Trinity. I do have to say though, I have never seen so many people keeping fish. While I believe there is nothing wrong with keeping a few fish to eat, I saw some pretty scary numbers of fish being cleaned in the camp we stayed at. I would hate to see this lake get overharvested. Remeber people, bass do not get planted like trout do, so a little catch and release will keep the fishing good there for years to come.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: The only courtesy dock currently in the water that I'm aware of is at Cedar Stock.
      City: Weaverville

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Urban, I have never fished Trinity. I have fished so many other lakes in the winter up and down the valley, that I figured Trinity can't be so completely different then all those other lakes. I realize that each lake has it's own personality, but in the same region of the country, elevation, water tempreture, generally speaking, the fishing will be fairly similar between all the local lakes. We have all had good days in the winter, although fewer than other times of the year. John's trips were all good throughout the toughest time of the year. His good days are as frequent as our slow days in the winter. If Trinity is different from all the other lakes in this region of the country, and the bass don't slow down there in the winter, then I stand corrected. As I stated, I have never fished it. Has anyone ever experienced slow fishing in Trinity in the winter? Has anyone ever not been bumped all day long? That actually happens periodicaly to other fishermen in all of the other lakes around here. Hey, I'm happy for John, but if he wants to catch 4 pounders and up all day in the winter, he better not fish any of these other lakes that the rest of us fish in the winter. However, last February 2003, I did catch a 5 pounder on a spinnr bait. But just one urban, you know what I mean? Please understand that no disrespect is meant. I hope these comments have not been offensive, that was not my intention.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: HEY CN TAKE IT EASY BUDY, THERE ARE SOME DOGGIES IN TRINITY, MAYBE YOU JUST CANT FISH AS WELL AS THE OTHERS, ALSO HE IS THE ONLY ONE POSTING REPORTS RIGHT NOW SHOW SHUT YOUR TRAP OR SAY SOMETHING NICE, NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR YOUR CRAP. GO GET A ROD AND LEARN HOW TO FISH AND GET SOME FOR YOURSELF. AND THANKS FOR POSTING REPORTS WE ALL LOVE TO READ THEM.

      Tips: QUIT YOUR BITCHING AND GO FISH

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      Water Temp: 44-46

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: This weeks storm has added some much needed color to the water and a lot o not much needed debris. Some areas o the lake are still quite muddy but or the most part the color is perect. The ishing has improved accordingly. Largemouths to nearly 4 lbs. and smallies over 3 made or a pretty good day on the lake. Couldn't get a reaction bite going but it won't be ar behind. Gitzits, 4" darter headed worms and brown jigs are all working. Fish were in 10 to 20 eet.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: Word o caution. There is a lot o debris that was washed in rom the storm and until we get a couple o windy days blowing rom the same direction to consolidate it, running will be a little scary.

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      Water Temp: 74 dropping to

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Full moon, so ish were most active aternoons. Found ish under shad on points and in stained water near tailings, all in north end. Success on ire-tiger cranks, split-shotting small plastics and on twin-tail grubs on jig-head. Numbers good, size generally rom keeper to 2 1/2. Had a six plus smallie come unplugged at the boat in ull view o two guys in a red Stratos. (Did you enjoy the show?) Thanks to Johnny Mac's guide service or shortening the learning curve!!

      Tips: Falling levels pulled the keepers o shore. Two ronts came thru back to back and dropped the surace temps. by our degrees in two days. The ish remained active in 12-25 oot range but shad present was a must! Medium depth ire-tiger or clown cranks at low-light, small plastics other times. R

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I am looking or any inormation on any bass clubs that ish Trinity, Shasta, Whiskeytown etc.... I am not interested in club that are a draw style. Please contact me at 707-498-1177 cell or eel ree to E-Mail me
      City: McKinleyville

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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished this weekend the Caliornia Federation Tournament at Trinity Lake. Once again Tony put on a great tourney (even with only 1/2 day and 2 ish limit) and his wie and riend helped unselishly. Thanks to everyone or a ine job!!Pre-ishing I tried every possible moving bait in every area, rom south to north, and just couldn't ind any ish that were interested. I was sure there was a better bite than what I had, but couldn't ind it. I tried topwater, spinnerbaits, crankbaits, jerkbaits - NOTHING!So, tournament day I just went with what I knew rom last month and conirmed pre-ishing that it was still working - drop shotting main lake points & steep walls with shade. I think the key was going slow, working it thoroughly and keeping the bait o the bottom. the ish were suspending 2t or so o the bottom and wanted the bait in their ace. My non-boater was carolina dragging, and even with the same bait, the ish preerred the drop shot. I caught 8 smallmouth rom 2-2.5lbs each and one monster largemouth that topped at 6.06lbs. That ish won me the tourney and big ish honors. The ish we caught were all on the points in 20-40t o water - Drop shotting using my avorite 4.5in. Margarita Mutilator; no shaking required. Best ish came around areas with wood in the water. Another key or me was that there seemed to be only 1 or 2 good ish on each spot, so you catch 1 or 2 then had to move. Tons o small ish that you had to weed thru to ind the big one on the point. Usually deeper!Thanks to my non-boater Steve or a un day, good netting and putting up with my excitement.
      City: Redwood City

      Tips: 1) Slow Down! - caught that big ish right behind another boat that had just ished the area, so slower was better or us. 2) Stick with your pattern!

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      Water Temp: low 70s

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: As o Tues the 8th it was 6.75 rom the top and alling
      City: Weaverville

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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Shaste Region BASS Fed. tourney this weekend. First time to Trinity, but what a great ishery. The smallies are a great bite and size was good. Some Largemouth caught too. Fished main lake and secondary points drop shotting 4.5in straight tail worms. not much shaking. i the ish were there, they hit it quickly, even on the drop. i you didnt get bit within 1 minute, move on to another point.Caught 2-3 limits beore noon. As always, i caught my best ish pre-ishing, with a 5lb smallie starting it o. 5 ish during pre-ish could have given me 15-16lbs, but only managed 10.10 on tourney day. That got me 5th place. Thanks to Tony or once again putting on a great tourney and thanks to all who ished it. it was un!!bigguns bite,Kopper Bass
      City: Redwood City

      Tips: best colors or me were 4.5in roboworms in margarita mutilator and red weenie.

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Mule Creek Arm and did well. Used the Drop shot method or the irst time and landed some really nice ish. Fished submurged trees and bushes using dark colors with a bright tail. The drop shot method is slow ishing but it really payed o or me. Do not go too ar in the coves.
      City: McKinleyville

      Tips: Fidget Drop shot by Majic Worm. Dark colors 3 inch worm or 4 inch worked well.