McCloud River Report

As if Covid wasn’t enough we are now dealing with extreme fire danger here with all National Forest closed to the public. Specifically the McCloud River is shutdown. As you can see the closure will be reviewed again next week but for now the river is closed. Up until the closure the river was putting out some beautiful fish and to add sauce to it the river colored up, but not enough to keep you off of it. Smoke has been bad to manageable but with all the surrounding fires you can expect these types of days for quite some time. I don’t know about you all but I’m done with 2020, this year has been blow after blow to the gut for all of us.

The Upper Sacramento River

On the other hand most of the USac is open still except for a couple of spots, specifically Pollard Flat and Dog Creek. It’s been fishing good from above Dunsmuir to Shasta Lake. The nights are starting to cool down now and and the freaking hot weather has just about gone. The river is at its summer/fall low and running very clear so stealth is important. Think LBS flies for sure and maybe play around with a big rubber leg, the October Caddis will start their wake up call soon and the fish will start keying in on them. Most of the bigger fish are in the heavy oxygenated water and we are still seeing a fair amount of browns moving up from the lake so this river is a great alternative.

Rick Cox

Wild Waters Fly Fishing

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