Trinity River Fishing

Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy your turkey. The weather is clearing to some degree as the Trinity drops. As I traveled to Redding I checked along the river and observed about a half dozen or more bank fishermen on the upper sections of the river and about a dozen trailers at several put-ins. Because it was so early in the morning, we...
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 The weather this last week has been dry and sunny. I know the Holidays are coming up but the river needs some water and the only way for right now is for some rain. Even though the river is low the upper section has been producing some nice Iron Heads. From the pictures I have been receiving there have been...
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Sorry about last week’s no report. Computer got sick and had to go to the doctor. I got some good feedback from the October 25 column. I like that some people read the column and comment back about what they think about what I wrote. The problem being hat they don’t always do the proper research to find out the...
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 What has happened to the Trinity River Restoration in the upper forty miles of restoration? In 2000 Sectary of Interior Babette signed the Record of Decision (ROD) and the Trinity Management Council (TMC the governing body), Trinity River Restoration Project (TRRP) and Trinity Adaptive Management Working Group (TAMWG public advisory) were formed to restore the top forty (40) miles of...
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Bureau of Reclamation will reduce water releases to 300cfs October 16th. The releases will begin dropping from 450cfs at 8:00am Monday morning and be down to 300cfs by 4pm Monday afternoon. It will take some time before it reaches Hoopa and from then until “Winter Augmentation Flows” it will be strictly weather-related events that will control water flows on the...
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September was the beginning of Autumn. (Fall to us) We had a little rain and the last rush of Spring Chinook and Summer Steelhead. It made for some good fishing and things kind of went south as for fishing. Fishing has been fair in the lower sections of the Trinity River but fair to good in the upper sections. It kind of...
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