Lower Caribou Lake Fishing Guide, Siskiyou County, California

• Overview

  Lower Caribou Lake is a Siskiyou County water, in California. The setting is rolling hill. This is a pocket water of some 24 acres, and every part of it is reachable from the bank. On our Siskiyou County list it sits near the top for size. Weaverville sits 21 miles from the bank. Chico sits 108 miles out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. Rules here are straightforward: one county, one set of rules.

• Where to Fish on Lower Caribou Lake

  No depth figure has reached our records, which makes a plummet useful. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Records held for Siskiyou County cover 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. Lower Caribou Lake gives up more to patience than to distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Climate normals give 58°F for August and 31°F for December. Fishing continues through most of the calendar, with quiet spells rather than closures. Cover comes and goes, so treat it with suspicion rather than trust. Autumn steadies things again once the heat lets go. Lower Caribou Lake fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing in our records says who may fish here. There is a campsite half a mile from the water. For the trout, small spinners and a box of nymphs cover both approaches. Look for a notice board at the entrance. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. For a change of water, Snowslide Lake is 0.3 miles distant. Nothing on Lower Caribou Lake should be assumed from this page alone.