Fishing Articles

Klamath River Fall Chinook numbers
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, MARCH 6, 2017
Klamath River - Middle

Klamath River Fall Chinook (KRFC) salmon stock abundance and In-River return reports were very low for 2016. In fact, they were so low that the stocks were approaching an overfished condition. This being crafted on a minimum of 11,379 natural and hatchery adult salmon return to the Klamath River Basin. We can expect a drastic reduction of surplus harvestable Fall...
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Trinity River flows and conditions
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, MARCH 6, 2017
Trinity River - Stuart Fork

Trinity River Hatchery Counts: TRH trapping summary for Feb. 19 - Feb.25; fall Chinook season totals, 1,512; spring Chinook season totals, 2,107, season totals 3,619; Coho season totals, 527; Steelhead, 47, season total 1,555. Trinity Lake: The Lake is 34ft below the overflow (decrease of 2ft)and 79% of capacity (1% increase) Inflow to Trinity Lake is 2,830cfs and Trinity Dam is releasing 583cfs...
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Sacramento River Fall Chinook
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, MARCH 6, 2017
Sacramento River

Sacramento River Fall Chinook salmon forecast of a normal return of 122,000 adult hatchery and natural spawners for 2016 is great news. This could change as a full and more complete return count is reported. 2016 In-River spawner escapement was 151,128 hatcheries and natural adult salmon was above the 122,000 floor minimum. ...
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Peer Review for the California WaterFix
by Erin Loury, FISHBIO, MARCH 6, 2017

Winter storms have dumped copious amounts of precipitation over much of California in the last month, causing several reservoirs to operate under flood control conditions. Recent events, such as damage to the spillway at Oroville Dam, have turned much attention to enhancing and updating California's water infrastructure. A major and controversial component of proposed infrastructure improvements is the California WaterFix (CWF). Much contention...
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Pacific Fisheries Management Council 2017
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, MARCH 6, 2017
Trinity River

This is the first preliminary PFMC Salmon Preseason report. Usually there are III (three preliminary reports) before the final recommendations for Fall Salmon Harvests are determined. I used to attend all of these meetings to speak in behalf of In-River Sports fishing, but I no longer can afford to do that so there is no In-River Sport fishing representative to...
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Collins Lake update
by Kathy Hess, MARCH 5, 2017

We received our first double sized load of 1,800 lbs of trout February 14th, including bigger trophy sized trout to start the 2017 Spring trout fishing season. Recent heavy rains have left the lake murky, but we have still seen some nice trout caught despite the low visibility. The upcoming forecast looks promising for clearing weather, so we expect the...
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