fishing

Spring has Sprung

On Monday, Spring arrived and we are looking at new growth all around us. As I look out the window, I see the fruit trees starting to bud and tiny green leaves sprouting on the trees in the forest. The trouble is that the river is full of water from the snow melt and the…

Smoke, Smoke those fish!

It has been very smoky here due to the Fires, Six Rivers Lightening Complex. The fire in Willow Creek is not bad as it is across the river. The Friday Ridge fire is a bit of trouble as is the fire above the Golf Course. When you add the two together then add an inversion…

Springers and Water Temperatures

The Spring Salmon have been running through fairly strong last week. The Hoopa have been netting good quantities of them as they move up the river. As the counts goes the Junction City weir saw a good count last week, 286 adults.     As you may have seen or read that Tom Stokely representing the Save…

Trinity River in summer flows

The Trinity River is in summer flows now and will drop to winter flows in October. The river is flowing steady at around 450cfs with water temperatures in the low 60s. We had a little bit of sprinkles this morning but not enough to get you wet. We are expecting some rain tonight but not…

Spring has Sprung

 Last Sunday, Spring came upon us with light showers, since then we have experienced nice weather with the possibility of another light set of showers to close this weekend. I don’t foresee any other moisture in the near future. Spring is supposed to bring rain but I think this year we are going to see…

PFMC 1st Alternatives Out!

 The Pacific Fisheries Management Council first alternatives for ocean fishing are out and they look a little better than last year. We still have next month for the final recommendations to come out but from what I was able to find out was most recommendations for Ocean and In-River salmon quotas were a little better…

Covid, Covid, Covid!

When will it end? You take the shots, take the booster, now they say you may have to take another booster. I think most of us are fed up with the mandates and masks and no masks. Does Dr. Fauci really know where COVID is going or is he just guessing? They say if you…

Possible Drought Conditions

    Recent storms have brought us lots of rain but our snow pack is still below average and water content. This is not good news for both water storage and spring water flows. We could be into a designated “Dry Water Year”. I hope not as we could still get more snow from coming storms….

Weather-Fish And Fishing

    What does the weather have to do with fish and fishing? Many people have asked that question. The weather had much to do with fishing. If we have had fair to good rain to get fish to come into the river to spawn, if the rivers get low amounts of rain then there is…

Winter Is Officially Here!

    The winter solutes has officially come and the winter weather is here. I hope all had a great Christmas and am wishing you a Happy New Year. I am sorry about last week as I was under the weather and was not able to make the report. We also had a bit of weather for…

More Rain Coming

   The rain for last week was not as predicted, not even close. What little rain we did get was not enough to start any kind of large steelhead movement. The barometric pressure drop did help to start some movement in the upper river as fly fishing for steelhead started to get good but not great…

FIRES – SMOKE – FISH

   The Salmon Red Fires in the Trinity Alps has now started to smoke up the valley. Some days it is just a haze and others days it gets a bit heavier. Here lately it has been a light smoke in the air and not to harmful and clears up sometime in the afternoon. It has…

Dog Days Of Summer Are Upon Us

   The “Dog Days of Summer”have arrived! Last week we saw almost the whole week of triple digit weather. This week is almost the same, the only difference is we are only looking at several days of triple digit weather but a lot of high 90s. This is great weather for summer tube floating and swimming…

Spring Chinook Fishing

   SpringChinook salmon fishing is going to be tough this year. Wednesday July 1st the In-River spring salmon fishing season will open on the Lower Klamath and the Upper Trinity. The Kamath will be open from the Weitchpec Bridge down to the mouth of the Klamath. Limit; one salmon only, 2 salmon in possession. (this means a…

Rain – Snow – Water

The snow reports are in and final. The Trinity Alps are 128% of normal and the Sierras are 130% of normal for this time of year. This indicates a very good water year for the Eastern Sierras as well as the Klamath – Trinity River Basin. 10 of the 12 State Reservoirs are over 100%…

Water flow changes

   Trinity River water releases were supposed to be 1,050cfs but due to the problems at the Lewiston water gate, which is still under repair, the true releases are 2,524cfs as of Sunday May 12th. Reclamation hopes to have the repairs done by this week so that they can synchronize back into the TMC recommended…