From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com TRINITY CITIZENS LETTER OF COMPLAINT The Trinity Citizens Letter of Complaint April 14, 2024 to the Department of Interior, Office of Inspector General, Conflict of Interest; Trinity Management Council, Trinity River Restoration project/Bureau of Reclamation is about the disenfranchised Public. This letter topics…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com SPRING WATER RELEASES, RIVER HABITAT Sorry about no reports but I had to take the computer in to see the doctor again. I hope I have it fixed finally. The spring water releases started as of April 16th and peaked April 26th, they are…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com SPRING TIME WATER RELEASES AND FALL SALMON QUOTAS Well it is that time of year when water releases will begin to increase for the spring releases. Releases will begin Tuesday April 16 through Sunday August 4, with three pulses and a high flow…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com ESTIMATED PFMC FISH RETURNS FOR KLAMATH RIVER BASIN I hope everyone had a Happy Easter, I had the flu and that is why there was not Fish Report. Sorry! The Klamath River Basin Fall Chinook Salmon returns were a little better that estimated…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com RIVER HEALTH CONTINUED Last week I touched on the health of the North Coast Rivers. I would like to continue on this subject for this week. To begin with I received, by email, a study on Algae, its benefits and how it helps…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com ARE OUR RIVERS HEALTHY? I hope you had a great St. Patty’s Day and that you didn’t get too Happy. I always like to have at least one Green Beer on St. Patty’s Day and love that corned beef and cabbage. Back in…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com WINTER WEATHER TURNED TO SNOW As I started this report it was snowing big snowflakes; the snowflakes have now turned to rain. This storm has really brought in some crazy weather. The total rain for this storm is over three and a half…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com MORE WINTER WEATHER COMING Just when we think spring is in the air winter hits us in the face. The daffodils are blooming and we have cold weather coming with possible snow. Thei coming week is looking more like winter Steelhead fishing than…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com RIVER RESTORATION / RIVER FLOWS The TRRP did a fair job of notification for the Upper Conner Creek Boat Launch. It would have been much better if they had tried to reach out to the Raft Companies and the general public that use…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com TRINITY RIVER RESTORATION PROJECTS / JUNCTION CITY Proposed Upper Conner Creek Project: On Friday February 2, the TRRP held an on-site meeting at the Proposed Boat Ramp for the Junction City Campground launching site. There were several TRRP personnel and some people from…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com NEW YEAR, NEW RULES, NEW PROJECTS Sorry that I have not been able to make a new report due to computer problems. I hope all had a good New Year and are aware that there are some new changes coming up the pipe…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com HAPPY NEW YEAR AND MAY THIS BE A BETTER FISH YEAR I hope all had a Happy New Year and didn’t celebrate too much. I hope this year my computer has a better year also. The last several weeks I have had nothing…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com SCIENTIST TO SCIENTIST MAKE SENSE I hope all had a very Merry Christmas and will have a Happy New Year! The rivers are still dropping but are starting to clear up some as we approach the New Year. Winter Steelhead should be coming…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com RIVERS HAVE PEAKED OUT FLOWS DROPPING The rivers and streams have peaked out and are on the down slope. The Trinity is starting to clear up a bit but is still muddy as of this morning Monday Dec. 4in Willow Creek. This is…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com THE WEATHER IS MORE LIKE WINTER THAN FALL I HOPE ALL HAD A GREAT TURKEY DAY AND DIDN’T EAT TOO MUCH TO FALL ASLEEP DURING FOOTBALL! I also hope all had good times with family. For the last several days it has been…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com THE RIVERS ARE DROPPING AS THE FISHING IMPROVES Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy your turkey. The weather is clearing to some degree as the Trinity drops. As I traveled to Redding I checked along the river and observed about a half dozen or more…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com RIVER DROPPING NEED SOME RAIN The weather this last week has been dry and sunny. I know the Holidays are coming up but the river needs some water and the only way for right now is for some rain. Even though the river…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com RAIN HELPING THE RIVER Sorry about last week’s no report. Computer got sick and had to go to the doctor. I got some good feedback from the October 25 column. I like that some people read the column and comment back about what…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com PROBLEMS WITH UPPER TRINITY RIVER What has happened to the Trinity River Restoration in the upper forty miles of restoration? In 2000 Sectary of Interior Babette signed the Record of Decision (ROD) and the Trinity Management Council (TMC the governing body), Trinity River…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com WINTER FLOWS STARTING Bureau of Reclamation will reduce water releases to 300cfs October 16th. The releases will begin dropping from 450cfs at 8:00am Monday morning and be down to 300cfs by 4pm Monday afternoon. It will take some time before it reaches Hoopa…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com FALL IS HERE AND WHERE ARE THE FISH? September was the beginning of Autumn. (Fall to us) We had a little rain and the last rush of Spring Chinook and Summer Steelhead. It made for some good fishing and things kind of went south as…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com THE LAST OF THE SPRINGER’S ARE MAKING A RUN FOR IT Another burst of rain should bring in the last push of Spring Run Chinook Salmon for the Trinity River. Hopefully it will also bring in more Steelhead. The last rain brought in…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com FALL IS UPON US FISH MOVING UP RIVER Well it looks like Fall is officially here. I have been getting scratchy information from some fishermen hooking into some early Fall Run fish and the Willow Creek Weir has been counting some Fall Hatchery…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com AS THE COOLER WEATHER MOVES IN THE FISH ARE MOVING UP RIVER It looks like the weather is taking a turn towards a cool down. Normally as the weather cools down the water starts to cooling down and the fish start moving up…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com WITH WARMER WEATHER FISH ARE HERE We are experiencing some warmer weather this week but we are also seeing more salmon and steelhead in the river. Charlie B of Redding wrote me that he had fished after the Holiday Weekend and hooked three…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com HEAVY SHOWERS, LIGHTNING THUNDER Last week we had a huge down pour in the valley. It lasted about one hour but dropped over an inch of rain. You couldn’t leave cover or you would be soaking wet. The rain was good for the…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com HATCHERY FISH GOOD OR BAD We had some very hot weather last week with a few thunder showers at the beginning of the week that started some fires. On Saturday we had measurable rain that came all at once then left with a…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com SOME RESULTS THOUGHTS ABOUT COLUMNARIS I am sorry about not having some results abut the fish disease on the Upper Trinity. PG&E outages messed up my internet and I was unable to do anything on the computer. It is strange as to how…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com COLUMNARIS AND WARM WATER I know I said I would have more information about the “Gil Rot” (Columnaris) this week but I was only able gather a little bit from a fishing friend (John Haran), not a scientist but and avid fisherman that…
From Willow Creek, CA. By E. B. Duggan “D” Fishing, 707-599-2357 at yen2fish@yahoo.com HEATED WATER FLOWS AND FISH DISEASE There havebeen reports ofSpring Salmon with gill rot (Columnaris) reported in the Upper Trinity. This is true and is under investigation by USFW, NOAA and CDFW fish biologist. I have been told that a full report will…