Trinity River Fishing

This is the New Year and you need to turn in you 2016 steelhead report card and salmon harvest card. You can mail them in or do it by email, look on the back of the cards for instructions. The information on the cards are important for CDFW as they use it to help project the 2017 salmon harvest and...
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This is the day before Christmas and winter steelhead are coming up the river. I hope everyone has a good Christmas. Do you hear that big swoooosh? That’s the water rushing down south. Last week Obama signed the finance bill which Senator Feinstein attached the water bill and the controversial rider to. About the same time, the courts ruled that Governor...
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I hope everyone has a great Christmas and that the day is full of family and good times.  Yes we have been having rain in the valley and most of the rivers are unfishable because of some flooding. The river bar in front of my house is just barely sticking its nose out of water after being under water for two...
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I hope everyone had a great Turkey day and didn’t eat too much Turkey and pumpkin pie.  While down south with family for the Holiday I read in the paper that Westland’s Water District was lobbing the Government to forgive $375 million debt for them to take 100,000 acres of their 600,000 acres of land out of irrigation. Also one of...
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The forecast is for steady rain and showers for the next week to ten days but not heavy rains. This should start winter run steelhead coming into the rivers. I wish all my readers a Happy Thanksgiving and a Merry Christmas. I will be having family for the Holidays so it will be hard to get out a fishing report but...
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If one can believe the weather forecasts, the Trinity River Valley can expect more rain in the next two weeks. As I perused the weather forecasts for the Trinity River area, it says that rain and scattered showers are expected starting this coming Sunday through the following week. If this is to happen all but the upper most part of...
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