McCloud Dam Relicensing Flows Screencast from California Trout on Vimeo. Shasta Trout guide Craig Nielsen attended a meeting last Thursday, July 14th hosted by Cal Trout to discuss flow recommendations for the Pit and McCloud Rivers under relicensing with FERC. There has been a good deal of misunderstanding and misinformation regarding the flows and particularly [...]
July 6th & 7th Richard (Dick) the President of the Shasta Trinity Fly Fishing Club in Redding was joined by the Vice President, Creighton for a couple days of fishing on the McCloud River and Lower Sacramento River with local guide Craig Nielsen. On back to back days they gained entry into Shasta Trout’s Hawg [...]
July 5th Scott traveled to the Mt Shasta area for a visit with his family and snuck away for a couple days of fishing with local guides Craig Nielsen on the McCloud River and Alan Blankenship on the Pit River. He enjoyed some spectacular fishing including a large dry fly Rainbow on his last cast [...]
We plan on attending a meeting hosted by CalTrout to discuss Pit River flows this Thursday, July 14 at 7:30 PM at the old Clearwater House in Cassel. We hope you can join us. This event will focus on the Pit River flows, but They will touch on McCloud River flows too. They’ve run a [...]
Flows on the McCloud have been very fishable and those in the know have enjoyed some exceptional days of late. With this recent announcement by PGE, we are not sure how long they will remain so: As you may be aware, McCloud Dam has been spilling approximately 150 to 300 cubic feet per second (cfs) [...]
Dry Fly fishing on the McCloud River has been outstanding as midday hatches of Pale Morning Duns and Large Drakes, including Green Drakes have big ‘bows looking up. Some Salmonflies and early Goldenstones are out and about and fish are beginning to take them on the surface as well. Local guides, Craig Nielsen, Alan Blankenship, [...]
May 18-25th You would never guess it’s spring in the Northstate as it is snowing again this morning at Shasta Trout headquarters! Despite the cool wet spring, the fishing on the McCloud, Pit and Upper Sac is improving nearly daily. Flows have dropped significantly from a few weeks ago and while local freestones remain high [...]