Trinity River Fishing

There are salmon and steelhead down in the Hoopa Valley but none up river! By now there should be lots of fish in the Upper Trinity but no one has been able to find them. There are Redds, but not as many as usual in the Lewiston to Helena section of the river. This year’s (2019) salmon return was 2016 and...
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Happy Veterans Day. I wish all my fellow Vietnam Veterans well and may you have a good day. There have been lots of emails and phone calls about the bad fishing on the Trinity and Klamath Rivers. We are experiencing problems on the Upper Trinity, lack of fish. Several years ago, the Trinity experienced large loses of the out-migrating smolt due...
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Sorry about no report last week but my area was on “Safety Power Shut Off” due to PG&E for Northern California. It appears that this is going to happen more often when we have high winds, dry weather and Red Flag conditions. The reasoning for that is to try and stop/reduce disastrous fires in California. With the cold winter like weather we...
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The Fall weather has set in and it is looking more like the first part of Winter than Fall. There have been good spurts of fish coming up the valley but not like the usual Fall/Winter runs I’m used to. I know as I been getting lots of calls and emails asking “where are the fish” or “what happened to the...
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Fall weather patterns are in the valley. Nights are chilly and the water in the river is really cooling down. The trees are taking in their autumn colors and leaves are falling. The big question is where are the fish? The Trinity River Hatchery has been taking in good numbers of Spring Run Chinook salmon and the Junction City weir...
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As I am writing this report it is raining! In the last several days it has been overcast, showers and cloudy in Willow Creek. This type of weather pattern usually brings in fish, both at the mouth of the Klamath and into the Trinity. This is great news for the fishermen that have been waiting for some fresh salmon and more...
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