Iron Canyon can be a winter time sleeper if the road conditions are good

Iron Canyon Reservoir - Deadlun, CA (Shasta County)

by The Fly Shop
1-1-2026
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Fishing conditions: Fair

Report: Iron Canyon can be a winter time sleeper if the road conditions are good. The recent storms haven't dumped a lot of snow in that area, but need to watch out for the mud! Balanced Swimming Leeches are always a safe bet as well as worm patterns and midges!

Hot Flies:

Midge Flies:
Harrop's CDC Emerging Midge - #20

Nymphs/Wet Flies:
• San Juan Worm - Fire #8-14
• Chromies - #16-18
• Beaded Zebra Midge - #16-20
• Mercer's CB Micro Mayfly - #14-18
GB Half-Flashback PT - #16-20

Streamers & Leeches:
• Beaded Micro Buggers
• Freshwater Clouser - Olive/White
• Zonkers - #4

More Reports

The Fly Shop Reports

for Thursday, January 1st

Fall River: While the Fall is open to fishing year round, it is probably cold and slow
Klamath River: The river is definitely showing signs from the last storm and we will see big flows
McCloud River: The storm over Christmas added quite a bit of flow and blew the river out
Pit River: Releases at Pit 3 remain at 350 CFS which is still a good flow
Sacramento River - Upper: The recent storm had the Upper rocking & rolling flowing over 20,000 CFS at the lake!
Baum Lake: Still solid reports coming in from Baum Lake

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