.........it has more fish per mile than ever and more than most any other California stream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-je2ioZBvk



A gang of us fished it in the 1970s on but I quit when they raised the flows.

We mostly rough camped at Deep Creek camp ground.

Some times it was just two of us and some time it was a dozen.

The evens around the camp fire we the best of times for most of us.

Most of us went in the Fall for the Isonichia mayfly emergence.

In September we wet waded with a fly rod, reel, floating line, leader, tippet and a box of size 8 black fuzzy nymphs.

The Isonychia mayflies actually crawl out on the big rocks in the stream, like a stonefly.

Very few fished dries on the Pit river for that reason.


Veteran Nor Cal fly fishing guide Fred Gordon sample fishes it for the CDF&W with a wet suit on every year.

He says he averages 70 fish per day and feels it is better than ever, just much harder to wade, especially for older anglers.


The E C Powell rod company family fished it before most anyone started, maybe right after World War II?

There was also a group of Sacramento anglers from the Greatest Generation who fished it a lot too before we started.

We were lucky to have it for the time we did because I am not happy about the new higher flows.


I have a thousand stories about the Pit river......my lifetime favorite wild trout stream.