Fishing Articles

Green water and sunshine on the horizon
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, FEBRUARY 23, 2017
Smith River

There’s hope on the horizon for North Coast steelhead anglers. Even though you’ll see off and on rain through the weekend and into Monday, an extended period of sunshine and warmth is expected to arrive early next week. The dry weather will hopefully stick around long enough to give us a shot at some of the other coastal rivers that...
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Fishing is limited
by Gary Heffley, FEBRUARY 21, 2017
Shasta Lake

Last year, everyone was rubbing the magic lamp wishing for a rainy, snow-laden winter. Well, the genie answered that wish, and then some. We now have an overabundance of water that has lakes filled to the brim, causing serious and dangerous infrastructure issues with levees, dams and spillways, as well as blown out and flooded rivers and creeks. Few are thinking they'll...
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Endangered fish among the evacuees of Oroville Dam crisis
by Tara Lohan, FEBRUARY 21, 2017
Feather River

DAYS BEFORE NEARLY 200,000 people downstream of Lake Oroville were ordered to evacuate because of problems with two spillways at the dam, there were millions of other evacuees – residents of the Feather River Fish Hatchery. Last week, rising water levels at Lake Oroville caused dam operators to divert water to its spillway, which runs to the Feather River. High water flows and...
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Pacific herring arrive at Crescent City
Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, FEBRUARY 18, 2017
Crescent City Harbor

Fishermen of all ages lined up elbow-to-elbow Citizen's Dock in Crescent City Harbor last week, jigging for Pacific herring that make their annual spawning migration into the harbor every year. This year, the silver-sided baitfish arrived at Crescent City Harbor on Saturday, February 11. Full 6-gallon buckets of herring averaging between 8 and 10 inches were the rule, and many...
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Klamath releases and conditions
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, FEBRUARY 17, 2017
Klamath River - Middle

Mid-Klamath: Iron Gate Dam is releasing 4,290cfs at this time so I would say fishing the Klamath is unfishable at this time. With the flows down river in the thousands cfs it will be a while before one will be able to wet a line. I just hope this will flush out the parasites that are causing the loss of our...
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Lowest fall salmon returns on record
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, FEBRUARY 16, 2017

This is just a short report to let you know what is happening to the rivers, as I will be out of town for the weekend. CDFW 2016 post season preliminary counts of Fall Chinook salmon returns to the Klamath River Basin for 2016 are the lowest returns of record since 1978. This could possibly be the record low for 2017...
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