Fishing Fox Creek Lake in Siskiyou County, California

• Overview

  Set in Siskiyou County, California, this is Fox Creek Lake. The water sits 6,601 feet up. Small at around 10 acres: two anglers spread out cover most of it. The town to know is Weed, 28 miles out. Mount Shasta is 29 miles away, with Dunsmuir at 30 miles. It lies deep inside the county rather than near an edge. In wet weather the last stretch of track is the awkward part.

• Where to Fish on Fox Creek Lake

  We hold no depth figure for this one. On a natural lake the weed line and the shelf beyond it do the work. Bays and points beat straight shoreline every time on water like this. Open biodiversity records for Siskiyou County list rainbow trout, brook trout, Chinook salmon and klamath smallscale sucker. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. Read Fox Creek Lake before you fish it and the day goes better.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Expect August to average close to 58°F, with January the cold end at about 32°F. Neither winter nor summer shuts things down for long. Cover comes and goes, so treat it with suspicion rather than trust. The cooler months are the comfortable ones to fish here. Fox Creek Lake runs to that rhythm year in and year out.

• Tackle & Baits

  Who may fish here is not settled in anything we hold. Access is unmapped, which usually means a farm track and a walk. Trout here take small spinners, spoons and, where fly water allows, a nymph or dry. Gates get locked out of season on water like this. Keep proof of licence with you rather than in the car. Should this one be busy, Mavis Lake is 0.6 miles off. For Fox Creek Lake, the notice at the access point is the final word.