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Fly fishing in California.

Live flows, rules, access maps and nearby guides.

  • 102waters
  • 20with a live gauge
  • 92designated
The Sacramento River flowing wide and green through Redding under a blue sky
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The Sacramento River in Redding, California. Photo: RoyalMayfair, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

102 fly-fishing waters in California have a page here, 20 with a live USGS flow gauge and 92 with an official agency designation (such as Wild Trout Water or Heritage Trout Water).

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32 fly-fishing guides and 28 fly shops in California are listed, unclaimed unless marked. Destination hubs: Redding & the Lower Sacramento and Bishop & the Eastern Sierra.

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About the California list

About this

102 California rivers, creeks, lakes and flats with a page: each with its official agency designations and their source, live USGS flow where a gauge exists, the state’s regulations and access map, and the guides and shops nearby. Waters that cross into California from a neighbouring state are included.

A California water is here because the state agency lists it under an official designation, because guides and shops in our directories name it on their own websites, or because a live USGS gauge sits on a river a guide names. Species appear only where an agency page states them. “Most fished first” ranks by designations and by how many guide and shop websites name the water.

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