Trinity River Fishing

The North Coast Rivers are reaching monitoring stages as the rains keep coming. Last Saturday Honeydew received 3.5 inches of rain between midnight and 4:30a.m. Willow Creek at my house received 3.1 inches of rain between 8a.m. Saturday morning and 8a.m. Sunday morning. Let us say this storm blew out the rivers. Honeydew received more rain in four hours that...
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Iron Gate Dam releases are 1,180cfs. Seiad Valley is 5.2ft at 4,250cfs. Happy Camp is estimated at 5,100cfs. Somes Bar is estimated at 9.9Kcfs. Orleans is 9.3ft. at 13.2Kcfs. Klamath at Terwer Creek is 14.9ft at 27.2Kcfs and water temperatures of 48.2 degrees. Flows at Smith River, Dr. Fine Bridge are 9.3ft at 4,620cfs. Temperatures in the Valley last week...
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The Lake is 134ft (an increase of 5ft.) below the overflow and 35% of capacity (3% increase) Inflow to Trinity Lake is 3,069cfs and the Trinity Dam is releasing 392cfs to Lewiston Lake with 79cfs going to Whiskeytown Lake and on to the Keswick Power Plant with 3,118cfs being released to the Sacramento River.

The Upper-Klamath was seeing some good steelhead and trout fishing all the way down to the Seiad Valley. That could hold if the coming storms do not blow out the upper part of the river. From Happy Camp on down the Klamath has been pretty high and it doesn’t look like that will change for the near term. Orleans is...
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The Upper Trinity has been good to fair with more down runners that fresh steelhead. The good part is that with the predicted rains coming we could see more winter run steelies which would be greatly appreciated. As for the Lower Trinity we are seeing the river having trouble staying in good steelhead fishing conditions. This year I have seen...
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Klamath: Iron Gate Dam releases are 1,700cfs. Seiad Valley is 5.8ft at 5,080cfs. Happy Camp is estimated at 5,860cfs. Somes Bar is estimated at 11.1Kcfs. Orleans is 10ft. at 14.6Kcfs. Klamath at Terwer Creek is 10.1ft at 27.8Kcfs and water temperatures of 45.8 degrees. Flows at Smith River, Dr. Fine Bridge are 10.1ft at 6,130cfs. Temperatures in the Valley last...
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