Trinity River Fishing

 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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Another burst of rain should bring in the last push of Spring Run Chinook Salmon for the Trinity River. Hopefully it will also bring in more Steelhead. The last rain brought in a nice run of Steelhead and a lot of adult Steelhead were caught and released. Right now, it looks like the Lower section of the river is only...
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Well it looks like Fall is officially here. I have been getting scratchy information from some fishermen hooking into some early Fall Run fish and the Willow Creek Weir has been counting some Fall Hatchery Coho from the fishermen I contacted they are hooking into some chrome fish both in the upper reaches of the river and in the lower...
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It looks like the weather is taking a turn towards a cool down. Normally as the weather cools down the water starts to cooling down and the fish start moving up river. This year the water is cooling some but is still up in there in the 60 degrees which means the fish will be still looking for cold water...
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