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Iron Gate Update
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, MARCH 3, 2016

Klamath River - Upper - CA

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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Trinity Lake Update
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, MARCH 3, 2016

Trinity Lake

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.
Good Steelhead
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, MARCH 3, 2016

Klamath River - Upper - CA

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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Trinity Update
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, MARCH 3, 2016

Trinity River - Upper

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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Some Color
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, MARCH 3, 2016

Trinity River - Upper

The water on the upper end still has some color to it, probably more so than the middle reports Steve Huber of Steve Huber’s Guide Service. “There’s some steelhead still making their way to the hatchery, but the numbers are slowing way down. A few anglers are still trying, but the pressure has died down. Your best bet to find...
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Pretty Quiet
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, MARCH 3, 2016

Mad River

The Mad has been pretty quiet this week reports Justin Kelly of RMI Outdoors in Eureka. “The river dropped into shape on Monday, but very few anglers were out. There are mostly downers in the system now, but I’m sure there are pods of fresh fish in the river as well. It started to dirty-up on Wednesday morning and it...
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