The first day of summer arrived Friday June 20th but it doesn’t feel like summer yet. We are expecting warmer days next week. The temperatures predicted for the next week are more like summer. Summer water flows are expected sometime around the first week of July. Right now, the water flows are getting closer to swimming but are still in the mid 50 degrees. One must be careful while swimming and tubing as the water current is still deceptively strong in some areas. Kimtu Beach is open to swimming and tubing now. The Trinity is still strong enough for rafting if one wishes to go.

TRRP has paused the Wednesday evening programs at the Weaverville Brewery for the summer as river restoration will begin soon. The Junction City campground access is still not usable yet but hopefully in July. I understand that their lease for the offices has been renewed also, which is good news because of all the government budget cuts.  

Fishing has been better for the rivers now that the rivers have dropped and flows are allowing one to wade some. The Trinity is finally down to wading in some places. It is not down to summer flows yet but will soon be. As for Salmon fishing there is still hope that it will recover and we can once again fish for Salmon, maybe next year!

Lewiston Lake: From Louise; Trinity Lake releases into Lewiston Lake are good for fishing right now. Last week around Father’s Day the fishing started to pick up. Several stringers brought into the marina had fish up to 1.5 to 2 pounds. Bait fishers found night crawlers and plane old orange power bait worked best. (No glitter) Hardware fishers, gold cast masters and little Cleo’s were doing the trick. Flyfisher, midges were the top flies. The marina is starting to release some of the prized big trout from the pens into the lake a little at a time. You can contact the Pine Cove Marina and ask Louise or Matt (530)778-3878); for Lewiston Lake fishing; for the Upper Trinity River you can call Indian Creek Lodge, Andy or Hannah, (530)623-6294), Junction City Store, Butch, (530)623-2803. 

Willow Creek: Fishing the Willow Creek/Big Rock area is fair to good in the early mornings if you get there before the sunbathers of swimmers. Fishing below Big Rock is picking up a bit, the mouth of South Fork and up is prime fishing early mornings fair in the evenings. Tish Tang area has also started to produce some fair trout fishing in the mornings. The weir at up at Cox Bar is being ready to be installed, the weirs at Tish Tang and Willow Creek won’t be installed until later.  

Mid-Klamath to Happy Camp: The Klamath River at Weitchpec is flowing 6,733cfs. This is a decrease of 94cfs. The Iron Gate/Bogus Creek area is flowing 1,302cfs an increase of 6cfs from the last report. To get the latest fishing information I suggest you call Marble Mountain Guest Ranch (800) 522-6284, or Scott Caldwell, SC Guide Service (530)905-0758 to get proper fishing information to fish the Upper Klamath.

Lake Conditions: These readings are for June 21 at midnight. It appears that readings are being posted a day late. Whiskeytown is 98% of capacity (a decrease of 1%) with inflows of 798cfs with releases of 1,055cfs. Shasta Lake is 86% of capacity, a decrease of 3% and minus 4ft with inflows of 416cfs and releasing 12,768cfs into Keswick. Keswick is 81% of capacity (a decrease of 9%) with inflows of 12,497cfs and releases of 12,786cfs into the Sacramento River. Oroville Lake is 97% of capacity, a decrease of 2% and minus 4ft, with inflows of 3,137cfs with releases of 7,789cfs into the Feather River. Folsom Lake is 89% of capacity, a decrease of 2% and minus 2ft, with inflows of 1,479cfs with releases of 2,753cfs into the American River. Trinity Lake storage is 2,235,163AF a decrease of 23,167AF of storage. 

Trinity Lake: The lake is 13ft below the overflow, an increase of 1ft and 91% of capacity (a decrease of 1%) with inflows of 636cfs and releasing 1,350cfs into Lewiston Lake with 935cfs being diverted to Whiskeytown and on to the Keswick Power Plant, and releasing 12,786cfs into the Sacramento River. 

Trinity River flows and conditions: Trinity Lake is 91% of capacity, a decrease of 1% and 13ft below the overflow an increase of 1ft. Lewiston Dam is 97% of capacity, an increase 5% and water releases of 796cfs into the Trinity River, with water temperatures of 49.2 degrees, as of 0:00pam today Sunday June 22, 2025.  Limekiln Gulch is 5.34t at 845cfs. Douglas City is 7.17ft with flows of 809cfs with water temperatures of 55.9 degrees. Junction City is N/Aft at N/Acfs. Helena is 10.22ft at 1,249cfs with water temps of 56.7 degrees. Cedar Flat (Burnt Ranch) is N/Aft at 0.00cfs (Gauge is still out of order). South Fork of the Trinity near Hyampom is 3.21 at 281cfs. Willow Creek is estimated at 1,530cfs, air is 68 degrees and water at 60.5 degrees, Hoopa is 13.11ft at 2,025cfs with water at 63.9 degrees. 

Klamath River flows and conditions: Flows at the Iron Gate/ Bogas Creek are 1,302cfs, an increase of 6cfs. Seiad Valley is 3.40ft at 2,227cfs. Indian Creek is 4.06ft at 154cfs. Happy Camp is estimated to be 2,381cfs, Somes Bar is estimated to be 3,778cfs, and the Salmon River is 2.00ft at 930cfs. Orleans is 4.78ft at 4,708cfs, the Klamath River at Terwer Creek is 9.90ft flowing at 5,764cfs with water temps of 64.3 degrees. Flows for the Smith River at Jediah Smith are 5.19ft with flows of 5593cfs. and flows at Dr. Fine Bridge are 11.92ft at N/A. The Smith increased a little bit.

Temperatures for the Valley last week had a high of 95 and a low of 45 degrees. Rain for the week was 0.00in with a water year total to date of 53.47 and 1.75in of snow in Willow Creek. The predicted temperatures for next week are for high of 97 and a low of 53. The weather predicted for the next week is looking like the first part of the week to be partly cloudy with sunshine the rest of the week, with Sunday the hottest.

Websites: MyOutdoorBuddy.com, Willowcreekchamber.com,
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