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I think The Fly Shop in Redding would have some good info as to what is happening, perhaps even on their stream report, though sometimes they are not updated very often despite the "last updated date" reflecting something recent.
I would not be so sure about the slow water thing, those fish are accustomed to living in fast water and I believe the water temperature on the river is pretty consistent year round.
About water speed, I’d also suggest that most of the fish that I catch on the Pit out of faster water are still actually holding in pretty slow to moderate current. So many buckets there where they can hang out and make minimal movements to grab food tumbling by. I can’t remember what the earliest date is that I’ve fished there. I want to say it was early March or maybe late February? I’m not sure that that trip really offers much in the way of advice, however, as it was unseasonably warm then. We did have luck with lots of old standby patterns, including rubber leg stones (of course!), and on streamers too. I really hesitate to even offer that single experience, since it really wasn’t exactly winter like conditions, other than the fact that if I personally would still probably put a lot of emphasis on fishing some of the same attractor patterns in some of the same honey holes. I suspect the feedback from the fish would be pretty clear before long, one way or another.
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