Fishing Articles

Trinity River Update
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, AUGUST 1, 2016
Trinity River - Upper

Trinity River Flows and Conditions: Lewiston Dam releases are 551cfs, water temps are 55 and air is 79 degrees at 12:00p.m. today. Limekiln Gulch is 5ft at 526cfs, water temps are 55 and air is 87. Douglas City is 6.4ft at 567cfs, water temps of 57 and air is 95.Junction City is 1.8t at 567cfs. Helena is 9ft at 606cfs...
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Collins Lake cats dominate fish photos!
by Kathy Hess, JULY 29, 2016
Collins Lake

Alonzo Navarra from Vallejo hooked the biggest cat this week, his was a 7 lb. 12 oz. monster and he was fishing down at the Water's Edge group camp area. He was using a marshmallow & PowerBait combo. Chris Luke from Antelope used PowerBait to entice his 7 lb. 8 oz. catfish on the east side of the lake. ...
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Steelhead biting on the Lower Klamath
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, JULY 28, 2016
Klamath River

The summer steelhead bite picked up last weekend for the few boats side-drifting roe, with the best bite happening from Blue Creek down. There are still quite a few hatchery steelhead in the mix as well. The salmon bite has slowed in the estuary, and a only a handful of fall kings have been caught upriver. The salmon should start...
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Rockfish snapping on the Trinidad Coast
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, JULY 28, 2016
Trinidad Coast

Before the weather turned crappy, there was a pretty decent salmon bite reports Curt Wilson of Wind Rose Charters out of Trinidad. “Late last week, they were biting pretty good right at Pilot Rock. There’s been a few caught since, but the effort dwindled once the weather turned. When the weather has allowed, the rockfish have really been snapping. The...
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Fishing the Eureka Coast
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, JULY 28, 2016
Eureka Coast

The weather finally got the best of the Eureka sport salmon fleet. What had been a wide-open bite for the past week was cooled by Wednesday’s rough waters. Only a few of the bigger boats chose to cross the bar into the nasty ocean on Wednesday, and the salmon were not in the biting mood. Prior to Wednesday, boats fishing...
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The Dead Sea
by Valerie Aubrey, JULY 27, 2016
Eagle Lake

Fishing is so bad this season for trollers covering 6 to 8 miles per day (some 10-13 miles per day) for 0-1 Eagle Lake trout and a ton tui chubs then come on up. Guides working their butts off for a couple fish, & that's a good day. If you want more than a limit in a week...
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