Could be really good! Could be muddy and snowy. Water conditions should be perfect. But it's winter and this spot is remote and known to become a mudders wet dream when rain starts falling. Be careful. Best flies are #16-18 midge patterns and Clouser minnows tossed on full sinking lines. A great fly pattern on this lake is a #14 non-beaded Pheasant Tail Nymph.

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The Fly Shop's® Tips: When you go, bring Clouser Minnows, Crystal Buggers in an assortment of colors and a sinking line. Suspending San Juan Worms works great! Don't forget to bring a float tube and enjoy some solitary fly fishing. The nearby Pit River, offers excellent fishing for rainbows!!

The rainbows and browns of Iron Canyon will clobber nymphs stripped on floating lines or suspended under indicators. Bring a motorized boat if you have one, and fish near the inflow at the NE end of the lake. Try stripping buggers on a Type 7 full sinking line. Retrieving or stripping buggers and leech patterns seems to be the best, most productive method of fly fishing Iron Canyon. Look for rainbows and browns along the edges of the lake.

You can fish this lake either one of two ways, indicator and nymphs or sinking lines and streamers. The midge hatches are usually strong in the AM hours, fishing a Blood Midge with a Black Midge Pupa dropper is deadly. For those who want to cast and retrieve flies, Leeches and Bugger style flies work great. Clouser Minnows are a fantastic fly on Iron Canyon, fished on a RIO Deep 7 sinking line, plan on finding the aggressive fish that hang in the depths! Use an intermediate sinking line along the shallower edges of the lake when fishing streamers.

Fishing a #16 BH PT Nymph on the end of a tapered leader attached to a floating line is an all time best way to find fish here or any still water. Once flies are cast, use a very slow retrieve, just move the line enough to stay tight to the fly and feel the thuds of the take!