The Trinity Valley- Hoopa is in a Heat Warning (108) but should start to cool down in the coming week. Hopefully! Hooray! I’m back. Sorry about being gone so long but with computer problems, medical and fire issues/fire camp I have been indisposed. I hope this report finds everybody getting ready for some Fall Fish’in. The Summer Steelhead Run was...
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It’s been an epic 10-day run on the North Coast for albacore anglers. Since last Tuesday, boats leaving ports from Eureka to Brookings have loaded up on longfins. It’s fairly rare to string to together that many calm ocean days with the warm water sitting just off the beach. Some days you didn’t need to travel more than 15 miles...
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Just a few days ago the Donovan Family of Brownsville caught this chunky 11lb catfish using raw porkchop down by the dam. While the strong summer heat has waned the water surface temperature is still fairly high at 78.5°F and the thermocline is still at about 20ft deep. Weekdays have been very quiet since about August 12th- if you don’t like...
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To all the Pacific halibut and rockfish swimming off the North Coast, you can rest easy for a while. The weather window has busted open and tuna fanatics are all over it, as to be expected. The ocean is and will be flat for quite a few days, the warm water is close and getting closer, and there’s a huge...
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DFW has been dumping fish regularly, the size of some of the fish is questionable, but thankfully the drops of Idaho fish and Oregon fish have kept things exciting and some really nice fish are being caught. Also – more OREGON Fish are coming VERY soon (or perhaps already) and we also have more Idaho fish coming too. Things are...
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Around this time the past couple years, our Pacific halibut seasons were coming to a close as good fishing made quick work of the quotas. The same cannot be said of this year. Though we’ve had some pretty good flurries, the bite remains fairly inconsistent. Boats have been covering a lot of ground, searching from Trinidad south to the Eel...
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