Comments on: Breaking: McCloud River Spilling, About to Become Unfishable

By: Craig Nielsen

Craig Nielsen — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:30:54 +0000

Tom:
Thanks for the link to the ShastaTrout fishing report. I’ll be likely be updating the report on Saturday, still jet lagged from a trip to Alaska and guiding each day this week. I was on Hat Creek and the Pit today, Hat Creek was fair in the afternoon, only a few big bugs taking flight. Had an epic hatch on the Pit though it was a bit crowded on Pit 3.

By: Tom Chandler

Tom Chandler — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:37:02 +0000

Still real high on both, though the Lower McCloud offers some potential in one short stretch.

Craig Nielsen writes a good fishing report: http://www.shastatrout.com/fishing-reports/

If I were jonesing to fish this weekend? I’d consider the Pit.

By: Burglar Bill

Burglar Bill — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:28:21 +0000

So, is Jack Trout up the spout? Still front and center on his website:

**UPPER SAC & McCLOUD RIVER ARE BLOWN OUT – DON’T GO – May 5th, 2009

Can you update the update? Thanks.

By: Mid TN Lee

Mid TN Lee — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:10:37 +0000

“Yeah, but you guys still have the Smokies, right? Don’t they clear up just a day or two after the rain stops? ”

Hah yea you are right, I need to quit being so negative. I actually persuaded my girlfriend how much fun a Smokey’s weekend trip would be last night. So I’ll be heading that way in the next couple of weeks to do some fishing.

By: Tom Chandler

Tom Chandler — Fri, 08 May 2009 04:19:34 +0000

Matt: Good info…..CFS-wise — what is a good yardstick for fishable flows and how do you find out what the CFS are….is there a website

Matt, on the links page of the Underground you'll find links to Upper Sac flows, McCloud flows, and a link to all the gauges in the state. No need to thank me, though a candy bar would be nice.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:19:26 +0000

Good info…..CFS-wise — what is a good yardstick for fishable flows and how do you find out what the CFS are….is there a website

By: Tom Chandler

Tom Chandler — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:45:38 +0000

UPDATE (May 6, 4pm) From CalTrout: “They are not spilling over the spillway right now. Right now (2:50 pm) flows from the dam are 160 cfs, at Ah-Di-Na are 621 and into Shasta is 2,500 cfs”

That ain’t bad, provided you’re fishing the stretch between Hawkens and the damn.

By: Tom Chandler

Tom Chandler — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:14:47 +0000

A. Wannabe Travelwriter: I did not know that clean water flowing into more clean water was considered a “spill.”

Spillway. It's all clean water up here, the question is how much of it is too much?

Mid TN Lee: Yea I know what you mean David…it’s starting to depress me to even check the generation schedules at this point.

Yeah, but you guys still have the Smokies, right? Don't they clear up just a day or two after the rain stops? We fly fishermen are never happy. Too little is a drought, to much is a disaster.

By: Mid TN Lee

Mid TN Lee — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:34:44 +0000

Yea I know what you mean David…it’s starting to depress me to even check the generation schedules at this point.

By: David Knapp

David Knapp — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:47:25 +0000

Sounds familiar. We’ve had flooding problems here in Tennessee and I fear our tailwaters will be out of commision for months at this rate…

By: A. Wannabe Travelwriter

A. Wannabe Travelwriter — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:32:53 +0000

I did not know that clean water flowing into more clean water was considered a “spill.”

Whew…when I saw the title of this post over at Singlebarbed I thought that maybe the Little Stinking had spilled into your pristine waters.

By: Tom Chandler

Tom Chandler — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:19:16 +0000

KJE: I was there Friday-Sunday, and while it rained continuously and the water silted up by Sunday, I had the river to myself.

You were fishing above Hawken's Creek? Those planning to fish the McCloud this weekend should stay tuned.

By: Tom Chandler

Tom Chandler — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:12:58 +0000

Bjorn: I realize that makes me a bad person.

Agreed. (bastard)

Mike: Is this normal runoff or are they not diverting to Iron Canyon again? Quote

Pretty sure the reservoir's about to begin spilling (the Upper McCloud was going big guns last weekend), so I gather it's a simple matter of more inflow than outflow.

By: KJE

KJE — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:43:30 +0000

I was there Friday-Sunday, and while it rained continuously and the water silted up by Sunday, I had the river to myself.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:13:16 +0000

Is this normal runoff or are they not diverting to Iron Canyon again?