If you’re looking to chase some winter steelhead between now and Christmas, you should have a few good options. Following a good amount of rain earlier in the week, all the North Coast rivers not named Smith and Chetco are brown and swollen. But with no rain forecast until next week and no snow in the hills, we should see...
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what has been a yo-yo of a season regulation-wise, CDFW will be lifting the temporary recreational crab trap restriction allowing Dungeness crab anglers to once again use traps and pots along the North Coast. In a press release issued Dec. 7, CDFW has greenlighted the use of traps starting Saturday, Dec. 16 at 8:00 a.m. in the area between the California/Oregon...
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After a very wet few days that turned most of the local streams muddy, green water isn’t too far down the road. The latest round of storms are forecast to break apart starting Thursday, and we should see some sun by Friday. And with that, the North Coast rivers will be on the drop and begin to transition from brown...
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The rivers and streams have peaked out and are on the down slope. The Trinity is starting to clear up a bit but is still muddy as of this morning Monday Dec. 4in Willow Creek. This is an indicator that the fish should start moving up the rivers. The predicted weather for next week is rain Wednesday and Thursday. If...
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As the winter storms begin to push shoreward on the North Coast – coinciding with the calendar flipping one last time in 2023 – it’s time to transition from the late fall-kings to winter steelhead. The king season was a bust for those of us in Northern California as salmon fishing was off limits for both the Eel and Smith...
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I HOPE ALL HAD A GREAT TURKEY DAY AND DIDN’T EAT TOO MUCH TO FALL ASLEEP DURING FOOTBALL! I also hope all had good times with family. For the last several days it has been very cold, more like February than November. Here in Willow Creek, it has been 26 degrees in the morning until after 10:00 in the morning. I...
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