Fly Fishing for Trophy Brown and Rainbow Trout on Iron Canyon Reservoir
Iron Canyon Reservoir is a forebay that feeds the James B. Black powerhouse on the Pit River. It is fed by an 8 mile tunnel from the McCloud River Reservoir outdoors of McCloud, California. The two projects are owned and operated by Pacific Gasoline & Electric powered business.
James B. Black was the president of Pacific Gasoline & Electrical for 20 several years and was the father-in-legislation of Shirley Temple Black.
The reservoir and powerhouse had been accomplished in 1965 and the reservoir planted with numerous species of rainbow trout by California Fish & Recreation. No a single can convey to me the place the brown trout came from.
The McCloud River is fed by springs coming off of Mount Shasta and the drinking water is very pure and cold. This is the drinking water that feeds Iron Canyon Reservoir. In addition to the principal in-movement of McCloud River h2o, the reservoir has 4 creeks that vacant into it and provide as spawning beds for naturally spawned trout.
One particular of the matters that sets Iron Canyon Reservoir apart from other water bodies is that the carry above of planted trout is fairly superior. The planters survive more time than the ordinary of 3 months, and in point they survive to spawning age and are in a position to reproduce.
Just one can tell the difference concerning massive planters and normally spawned Rainbow trout in that the flesh of the obviously spawned trout is pink and company, equivalent to Steelhead Trout. This quality makes the trout less difficult to fillet. The planted trout that endure and expand large more than enough have white meat and are more difficult to fillet.
Thanks to an abundance of food and a pink worm that is indigenous to the soils together the edges, these fish expand incredibly significant….they remind me of footballs. One brown trout built the area newspaper, it was 32 inches extended. As a judge for the Yearly Fish Derby and Liars Contest, I have weighed in a brown trout that was 27 1/4″ prolonged and 7 lbs. 6 ozs. in weight. The contestant also entered a 17″ rainbow trout.
The McCloud River tunnel sucks in fish from the McCloud reservoir and spits out fish foodstuff. Several brown trout cling out in entrance of the inlet and even have a spawning location shut by. The neighborhood fishing guides use this inlet through periods when the neighborhood rivers are blown out and call it “River X”, and have their clients use San Juan Worm Flies from the bank to capture browns. Trolling together the dam experience with flashers and bait also functions effectively for catching substantial brown trout.
I personally like fly fishing the mouths of McGill, Gap and Cedar Salt creeks. The financial institutions are quick to stroll, and a float tube is quite helpful and easy to start. The brown trout are tumble spawners and will stack up in the mouths of the creeks ready for the winter rains. The rainbows are ideal under them, feeding on brown trout eggs. In the spring, the drinking water amounts are stored very low for electricity technology applications and the creek mouths have a lot of rainbow trout feeding in them. I get in touch with it “outdated male” fishing, considering that all I have to do is place on some rubber boots, and forged into the water with a woolly bugger sort fly.
In the summer when the water degrees are stored substantial, the brown trout cruise the edges and the flats though a float tube will get you out more than submerged stumps where by the rainbows feed. Superior Times.