Brown troutBrown and rainbow troutFish on your own. Guide prices are optional; check licence, permit and access requirements before going.
JFMAMJJASOND
- Guide, per angler
- $375
- Public access
- Good
- Crowding
- Medium
Lower Sacramento River
Redding, California (Keswick Dam to Red Bluff) · USA
Right now
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Flow, last 7 days (cfs)Normal range for these dates
Dam-controlled river. Flow here follows releases upstream, so it can change within hours. Check the release schedule before you drive.
Weather forecast
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Day ratings weigh rain first (it raises and colors the river), then wind.
Flow: USGS Sacramento R A Keswick CA, USGS Sacramento R AB Bend Bridge NR Red Bluff CA. Recent readings are provisional. Normal range: the middle half of past flows for these dates. Forecast: National Weather Service.
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JFMAMJJASOND
Year-round; Mar–May caddis hatches, Sep–Nov salmon egg bite Wrong?
The water
A large, cold tailwater below Shasta and Keswick dams that runs through the middle of Redding and holds wild rainbows year-round. Most fishing is nymphing from drift boats; wading works mainly at lower flows.
- Target species
- Wild rainbow trout, steelhead
- Trip style
- Guide recommended
- Access
- Wade & float Wrong?
- Public access
- Moderate Wrong?
- Crowding
- Medium Wrong?
- Difficulty
- Intermediate Wrong?
- License and rules
- Fishing licenseRegulationsSteelhead Report Card needed to fish for steelhead. The reach from Keswick Dam to the Highway 44 bridge in Redding has an annual spring–summer closure (about Apr 1–Jul 31) to protect winter-run Chinook spawning; check the current CDFW regulations.Wrong?
What a trip costs
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Getting there
Getting there
Fly into RDD Redding, then 15 min (SMF Sacramento 2.5 hr). About 9 miles (15 km) by road. Marker on the river in Redding; guided drifts run downstream through Anderson toward Red Bluff.
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Driving from Sacramento about 3 hr, San Francisco about 4 hr 10 min.
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Fish on your own. Guide prices are optional; check licence, permit and access requirements before going.
JFMAMJJASOND
- Guide, per angler
- $298–318
- Public access
- Moderate
- Crowding
- Low
Brown troutBrown, rainbow and brook troutFish on your own. Guide prices are optional; check licence, permit and access requirements before going.
JFMAMJJASOND
- Guide, per angler
- $225–263
- Public access
- Good
- Crowding
- Medium