Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) owns and operates a series of powerhouses above and below Lake Britton, and anglers have come to use the numbers of these powerhouses to designate great Pit River places to fish. Those less concerned with catching fish see the river as a giant electricity-producing machine. It remains rather slow and sluggish until it passes through Fall River Mills and only really becomes trout habitat in the canyon above the Pit 1 Powerhouse. The longest tributary to Shasta Lake, the Pit River begins in a series of small forks in Lassen and Modoc Counties. What’s in a name, anyway? It works for Brad Pitt, right? You sometimes run into people with odd or unpronounceable names, and you think to yourself, “Now there’s a great candidate for a name change.” If you didn’t know that Shasta County’s Pit River was the easiest place to catch a wild trout in the North State, you might make the mistake of passing it by.
