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Saturday, February 17th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 49.4 to 50.2

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: In at Bailey Cove at 9:00am. Fished the lower McCloud for a total of 22 with the largest going 3.5 lbs. Best 5 weighed 10.6 lbs. The bite really slowed after noon. Most of the fish came on a HDI #109R in 20 to 40 feet of water not to mention the largest one and oh yes, the BLONDE in the back caught the 3.5 as well as 12 of the 22.
    City: Cottonwood

Friday, February 16th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAUNCHED AT JONES VALLEY, THERE WERE LOTS OF BOATS OUT ON A NICE DAY.UPPER PARKING LOT HAD ABOUT 15 RIGS IN IT AND LOWER RAMP WAS FULL. IF YOU GET OUT EARLY YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO PARK AT THE RAMP, THERES ROOM FOR ABOUT 10 RIGS THERE THEN ANOTHER 10 OFF THE ACCESS ROARD GOING OUT TO THE SECONDARY RAMP.FISHING WAS GREAT IF YOU JUST WANT TO CATCH 1 1/2 TO 2 LB FISH. WE FISHED ON THE MAIN LAKE BETWEEN JONES VALLEY AND BRIDGE BAY AND CAUGHT AROUND 20 PLUS FISH ANY WHERE FROM 20 TO 40 FEET OF WATER. MOST CAME IN THE DEEPER WATER.CAUGHT MOST ON TEXAS RIGGED WORMS IN GREEN AND BROWN COLORS, AND CAUGHT A COUPLE ON TWIN TAIL GRUBS, WHICH WAS PUMPKIN SEED COLOR. ALL THE FISH WERE SPOTS.
    City: ANDERSON

    Tips: IF YOU WANT TO HAVE FUN USE A ULTRA LITE ROD WITH LITE LINE, THOSE SPOTS WILL GIVE YOU A WORK OUT GETTING THEM TO THE BOAT.IM TALKING NO MORE THEN 6 LB TEST LINE AND FEATHER LITE ROD.

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: after that 9:00 am rain storm on the lake, the bite was on. couple 3 pounders and many in the 2 pound range. 10 to 20 ft. Smoke whith black flake hula grub. and craw imitation.....
    City: Reddeng

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Jones Valley area, landed 17 fish mostly spots and couple of large mouth, had a lot of strikes. All the fish weighed between 2 to 3.5 lbs, used Senkos the whole day in brown colors. We were catching everything in 20 to 30 ft of water in coves. Best fishing occured between 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Weather was mostly overcasted the whole day, temp. were 65 to 68 degrees. A perfect day for fishing!!!
    City: Cottonwood

    Tips: Fish the Senkos real slow off the bottom using standard set up for Senkos.

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Two of us fished 2.5 days (Friday,Saturday, and Sunday). We tried many different techniques to catch fish, drifting live minnows worked the best. Of the 70 fish we caught, all but five were on minnows. A few on senko's, and a couple dart headed worms. Most of the fish were down a minimum of 20 feet to the bottom in 30 to 80 feet of water. We did not see any fish in the back of any coves and the further back a river arm we went, the less fish we saw.
    City: Rough and Ready

    Tips: They seem to only want the real thing (minnows, minnows and an occassional senko). I would not go out without minnows!!!

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 45

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: fished pitt river arm..drop shot small shad imitation..and dart head robo worm in 40+ ft.
    caught limit with biggest only 2lbs..first trip in 3 months with brother from Texas..had a great time and weather was perfect.
    City: Marysville

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: 2 Nice Keepers In 3lb. Range On Chartreuse Shad Ripbait,21 Keepers On Rootbeer Gitzit,2 On Rainbow Spook,3 on hair jig,7 on crankbait,all the rest were spinnerbait with white blades in the afternoon on mcCloud. all total around 11lbs. scale took a chit on me.
    City: Lakehead

    Tips: i caught alot of fish,maybe they feel the weather change about to hit,end of week shutdown coming with snow possible or even worse blue bird freeze.good fishing till then.

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: hair jigs outfished rubber jigs 3 to 1.in the colder water hair seems to work better,caught 2limits on running water entering the lake with a chart.blade with zoom trailer.
    City: lakehead

    Tips: steep stuff deep,blades on running water and waterfalls and creeks.pit is producing nice limits,but sac arm still top choice.

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: hair jig-porky pined,brown with copper head with bungee cords made by a kid or his dad locally. ended up with a 2.5lb. avaerage all on sac arm. bungee jigs are brand new and would tell you who makes them but someone would say i am spamming this site-so go to phils and ask.
    City: lakehead

    Tips: use copper bladed mepps spinners for limit,and cull them out with hair jigs.

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 52-55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Rootbeer Gitzits Under Docks on upper sac,caught a 3.17lb. spot under shasta caverns dock,so I Pitched another grub-set the hook, Whatever it was it was Big,Broke my 8lb.line-left me there with nothing but a smile.
    City: Lakehead

    Tips: fish DOCKS,Then Hit Them Again!!!!!

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: caught all my best fish on docks on upper sac arm. use jig or grub lots of fattys under docks,and easy to catch. No Gas Docks For You Tournament Guys,But Lots Of Docks To Fish,I Also Caught Fish At Silverthorn Docks Again Easy Pickens. This Pattern Of Small docks on upper sac will hold till Post Spawn.
    City: Lakehead

    Tips: Spots love to get under docks more than beside them. these community fish do not go deep as often as open water fish,so remain consistant till spring or warmer weather comes. THESE SPOTS ARE BIG SO HANG ON.

Friday, December 15th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: spent 2 days here visiting family and fishing. having not been here in almost a year I just started at Bridge Bay and caught them on a small craw crankbait, XPS brand from Bass Pro. Tried a spinnerbait with no luck. Fish seemed real shallow for winter.
    City: Corvallis OR

Friday, December 8th, 2006

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: well the fishing,was slow,ran my winter milk run,tryed all the stuff i always try,and found they werein 50 feet of water,drop shot on the bottom around docks and bridges,
    City: redding

    Tips: find the docks,bridges that are seting around the 50 foot mark,the bit is weight only,no tap no pull- just weight,we had to almost dead stick it,did scratch out two limits,around 2pounds-some dinks,6lb line helped to,

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I live in the central valley and have to wonder why the previous posters are even allowed on the reports page..You guys aren't even funny..Actually, you are showing your ignorance to the rest of us...If you have a problem with Western Bass take it up with the owners and stop taking up space on the reports page.. This website was started to help all anglers improve their fishing and you morons are just wasted space..not only on the reports page but between your ears...When your earlier reports became nothing more than a way to get free advertizing space for your products no one was impressed..most anglers saw right through your reports and I for one decided NOT to buy the worms and products you were selling...I am sure other anglers made the same decision..So please just move on with whatever meaningless life you have left and leave the reports page to us real anglers...
    City: Madera

    Tips: I posted my REAL email address, will you....its cowardly if you don't..

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: The Giant Orange will be open for breakfast for the Cottonwood Open tournament this Saturday at 4AM
    City: Shasta Lake City

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 58.3

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The Giant Orange across the freeway from Phils is back open again. Remodeled with a larger blacktoped parking area and looking forward to serving fishermen. Ate there this morning and the food was as good or better than before. They will be open early, 430 AM for the Cottonwood open team tournament on December 2nd. The boss said he guarantees getting you in and out in 20 minutes. (530)275-9582 if you have any questions or suggestions.
    City: Shast Lake City

Friday, November 24th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: scott thanks for the info on the restraunt sounds like a good place to get an early bite to eat before going up to the lake to pratice. good places to eat are hard to find that early i wish the owners lots of luck and i will tell eyeryone in sac that is going to fish up there about it can't wait to try it
    City: sac

Monday, November 20th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Bass bite is great to fair. Rolled crank baits and blades all day and caught good fish: .8 to 2.9lbs my son caught the 2.9 on his crank bait.
    City: Redding, ca

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Out at 6:40 am......rain and breeze...got jig fish, spinnerbait fish, crank fish and worm fish...off at 3:00pm Rain turned em on.......Butcher out.
    City: Reddin

    Tips: Go up the Sac or McCloud.......big rock.

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: While fishing a club tourny From Packers Bay on Sat A friend noticed a White Van crusing the parking lot of packers and stoped by my camper and proceeded to take my 2 gal. gas can from under my camper, our neighbor was in thier camper and yell at him to stop but he left with my gas. She was able to get the license # and we reported it to the police. .. The plate was California - 7N92360 White Van With rack on top Please be on the lookout for this thief maybee we can find this person and put a stop to his criome spree. before he gets something important. Bob Plue, Rogue Valley Bassmasters Pres.
    City: Central Point, Oregon