Pit River PGE Lake Britton Dam Road Closure

[Timbers]

Was going to head up to Pit River for a few days.

Can anyone confirm that the road going over the dam is open?

Work was supposed to been completed on Sept. 2.

Any fishing reports? Flows are almost down to old levels for the past couple of weeks.

Thanks

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Check with some businesses in Burney?

[Jeff F]

The latest report from the Fly Shop in Redding says that the dam is open for cars. If not, just drive up north a little further on Hwy 89 to Upper Clark Ck Road. I did it a few weeks ago and it just adds about 15 minutes at the most. It takes you right to #3.

The river should be on fire right now, fishing-wise. Good luck.

~Jeff

[Timbers]

Thank you Bill and Jeff for your replies.

I'm hoping it's on fire too.

Excited about the flows. Haven't seen it like that for some time.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

In the "old lower flow years" our gang figured Sept 15 to Oct 15 was timing for the emergence ( crawling out onto the large rocks

midstream at the water line, hatching out then climbing to the top of the rocks and flying off ) of the #8 dark swimming Isonychia may

fly nymphs. The mostly Rainbow trout population is better than ever with the higher flows but it is much harder to wade now.

[StevenB]

I think in the "old lower flow years" our gang figured Sept 15 was a target date for the emergence ( crawling out onto the rocks at the

water line, climbing to the top of the rocks and flying off ) of the #8 dark Isonychia may fly nymphs.

Unfortunately I think the Isonychia hatch on the Pit is gone. I have not seen one over there for the last several years.

They did a high flow test on the river some years ago in the Fall and it seems to have wiped out the hatch.

Hope I am wrong, if anyone has seen some over there recently please comment.

It is possible the hatch will come back some day. Reminds me of the Holy Water on the Rogue, for years it had a blizzard caddis hatch in the fall until one year of very high flows (maybe 1996?) and the hatch went away.

10 years later the hatch came back. So the bugs were still there, it just took a long time for the population to rebuild.