Trinity Lake is 65ft. below the over flow and 62% of capacity.
Average inflow to the lake for the week is 73cfs.
1,035cfs is being released to the Sacramento River.
Trinity River @ Lewiston is 445cfs & water temp is 49.8, air 63 @ 11:00am today.
Douglas City is 2.2ft. @ 464cfs, water temps 51.6, air 72. Helena / North Fork is 9.4ft. @ 479cfs, water temps 56., air 72 degrees. Cedar Flat is 3ft. @ 526cfs. Willow Creek est. @ 555cfs & water about 60, air 68. Hoopa is 11.5ft. @ 718cfs.
Klamath River releases at Iron Gate are 1,030cfs. Seiad Valley is 2ft. @ 1,130cfs. Happy Camp est. @ 1,165cfs.
Somes Bar est. @ 1,612cfs. Orleans is 3.4ft. @ 1,710cfs. Mouth of Trinity 2,428cfs water 70.Klamath @ 101 8.5ft. @ 2,590cfs.

Last weeks temps for the Trinity Valley were 94/50 degrees with no rain. Next weeks forecast are 81/45 degrees with cloudy overcast mornings and sunny afternoons with possible showers Tuesday then sunny afternoons until Saturday. The weather has taken a down turn and is cooling thinks off. Good for the fishing.

The Willow Creek weir count started to drop off during the first part of the week but then came back Thursday & Friday for a total count of 267 Steelhead of which 84.6% were hatchery fish. Finally the Fall Chinook Salmon has started to show up at the W. C. weir. This past week DFG counted 126 Chinook of which 5 were with "ad clipped fins" which translates to about 32 were hatchery fish. The Junction City weir is still operational but they are not counting many fish up there at this time. Last week I was at a quandary as to where all the Steelhead were hiding out. Well with the help of a fellow guide Jon Mircetich and several other fishermen I can say with some confidence that many of the Steelies are in the upper sections of the river enjoying the cooler water. There is a good amount of them from Douglas City up into the fly fishing section only checking out the salmon that are up there. There is also plenty roaming the Junction City to Pigeon Point section looking for more salmon that have not arrived yet. It appears that the Steelhead shot up the river when the cool shot of water came down with the special water release for the Boat Dance. The trouble is that the Chinook did not take the same hint and stayed out to sea waiting for cooler weather to cool the river. Maybe the fish know more about the weather and Mother Nature than we think. Any way the Steelhead came in early and the Salmon are late.

Last week fishing for Steelhead from Junction City down to Pigeon Point started heating up with several drift boaters doing well. Like I said earlier Jon Mircetich did well floating Black Rubber legs & Red copper Johns while fly-fishing. They were able to bring 8 to 9 adults Iron Heads to the boat. I also heard from several other fly fishers from that area as well as down at Del Loma, that drifting flies was very successful. It seem as though that the darker flies are working well in the early morning and evenings while the lighter flies such as the Burlap Special & the Golden Stone Rubber Legs do better in the mid-day range. For hardware throwers it is time to maybe step down in size a little and work the upper areas of the riffles as well as below where the streams that are flowing into the main stem of the trinity.

Down at the mouth of the Klamath the count against the quota for the lower river is still going very slow. DFG has only counted 85 Fall Chinook harvested last week below the 101bridge vs. 172 Chinook above the 101 Bridge for a total of 688 Fall Chinook to date for the season. This is way below last year and way below the 5,000 for the Lower Klamath quota. Just maybe this cool weather will start the fall run coming in from the ocean and heading up the rivers.

Working a little further up the Klamath Johnson to Weitchpec has started to show more action for fly-fishers working the riffles for ??-pounders and the hardware throwers working for jacks & adult salmon. There seems to be more of them in the river now that will bite. The mouth of the Klamath has cooled down to below 70 degrees now and more fish are heading up-river. The water is still a little warm above the mouth of the Trinity but even that area is starting to cool down some. I do know that more fishermen are starting to show up at the camps along the Klamath so that should bring some more fishing pressure and maybe better results. I haven't heard much from the Somes Bar-Happy Camp area yet but I expect to hear soon that that area is seeing some action also. Until next time ----------

Good Fish'en ------ Good Luck and remember: "Keep your Tip up and a tight line lands fish!"

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