Trinity River Fishing

We have been having rain for the past week and I is getting soaked. Willow Creek has had over five inches of rain now with more to come. The weather people ae predicting more rain for the coming week. This is good for the firefighters here in northern California. Too bad some of this rain isn’t reaching southern California, they...
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My weather station is predicting rain for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which means that we could possibly have rain for Halloween. What a bummer if that is correct! The good part is that rain brings in more fish and that makes fishermen and ladies happy. From what I have been able to find out is that fishing has picked up...
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Autumn arrived two weeks ago but it still feels like the end of summer. The water year 2024 ended September 30th with a total of 54.98 inches of rain and 0.40 inches of snow. We are now into the water year of 2025 and it looks like it will be another year like last year. That would be nice but we...
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It finally feels like Autumn is coming. The predicted weather for the coming week is for cooler day time temperatures which means cooler water temperatures and more fish movement. I just hope that is true as we could use some more fish in the river. At the present time the weir counts are down because of the warmer water temperatures....
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On August 30th the last of the Coffer Dam was removed to allow the Klamath River to flow freely from top to the mouth. This means that the last of the Dams on the Klamath have been removed to allow the river to flow freely for the first time in 100 years. This will open up another 100 miles of in-river...
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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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