Sacramento River - Upper Fish Report for 11-25-2025
The gage at the lake shows just under 500 CFS
Sacramento River - Upper - Shasta, CA (Shasta County)

by The Fly Shop
11-25-2025
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The gage at the lake shows just under 500 CFS, it should be good to go from Simms up through Dunsmuir. Fish midge pupae and Blue Wing Olive nymphs. Soon fish will be susceptible to sculpins in the riffles, bring your streamer or trout Spey rod and some Slumpbusters.
Upper Sacramento Flows at Delta
Hot Flies:
Dry Flies:
• Sedgeback October Caddis - #10
• Low Water Baetis - #18
• Adams - #12-20
• Mercer's Missing Link - Dark #14-16
• Parachute Adams - #14-18
Nymphs/Wet Flies:
• Mercer's Tungsten October Pupa
• Skip's TB October Caddis
• CB Birds Nest - #10-14
• Red Copper John - #16-18
• Zebra Midge - #18-20
• Mercury Black Beauty
• Mercer's Glass Bead Micro May - #22
• Mercer's GB Dark Stone - #8
• Mercer's Dark Stone - #6
• Pat's Rubber Legs - Brown #6-8
• Jigged Birds Nest - #14-16
• Gordon's Amber Wing Prince - #12-18
• Mercer's CB Micro Mayfly - #16-18
• Walt's Worm
Streamers & Leeches:
• Sheila Sculpin
• Woolly Buggers
• Zack's Stillwater Swimming Leech - #8
More Reports
The Fly Shop Reports
for Tuesday, November 25thMcCloud River: The river is in good shape again up top below Lake McCloud
Trinity River: The river is in good shape from Lewiston down to Cedar Flat
The Fly Shop Reports
for Tuesday, November 18thHat Creek: Some good days can be had in the flats and lower in the system
Sacramento River - Lower: The clarity took a slight hit with the recent rains
McCloud Reservoir: The recent storm on Sunday blew the river on the top end
Trinity River: With the storm this week the river got cloudy below Weaver Creek and is dropping and clearing
Baum Lake: Baum is fishing very well and will continue to through the winter
Shasta Lake: Good reports of trout and bass coming to shad patterns and Woolley Buggers
Manzanita Lake: Snow fell this weekend, the highway through the park is closed
Pyramid Lake: It is windy and cold, and that means the ancient lake is fishing well
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