Trinity River Fishing

The Trinity River valley has fallen into the old weather patterns of years ago. We are experiencing weather patterns like in the 1950s and 1960s, rain in September now if that continues into October like back then we should see a lot more fish. (Both salmon and steelhead) I remember when everybody used to have to be out of the...
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 The Trinity River Fall Run Chinook salmon are now starting to trickle in, but very slowly! The Lower Klamath has only harvested 2,241 Fall Chinook salmon as of September 9th. We should have seen about twice that number move through the system by now as we are looking at the third week of September already. Part of the problem was...
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TRINITY WEIRS: The Trinity River Willow Creek Weir is supposed to be starting installation Monday Sep.8. The rive is in summer flow now so we will see what happens. I plan to check both the Willow Creek installation on Monday. I also plan to see of the Hoopa Weir is going to be installed. With the ceremonies over and the water...
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  The Trinity River Fall Chinook salmon fishing season opened Sunday September 1st. You are allowed two salmon per day with one adult over 22 inches, Six salmon in possession with no more that three adults. Right now, the weather is cooling down a bit from the three-digit temperatures we have been having and some Fall salmon are making their way...
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The Trinity River Weirs; the Junction City weir is working as usual and should be removed sometime around Sept 1st, but the Willow Creek weir will not be installed until sometime after Sept. 8th because of high water flows. The Hoopa weir will not be installed until after the Tribal Ceremonial “Boat Dance” which will be Sept. 3rd. (In my Aug....
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RIVER CLOSURES: The Tribal Ceremonies are now being done on the Mid-Klamath which will cause some river access closures. Please respect these areas for the short time access will be restricted; Aug. 11th to Aug. 20th Near Orleans to Camp Creek;  Aug. 26th to Sept. 4th Near Somes Bar.  Hoopa Weir; I hope to attend the next meeting in Hoopa to the meeting about how the weir will...
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