Fishing Articles

High and Off Color
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, MARCH 10, 2016
Chetco River

The Chetco remains high and off color following the recent rains, with no green water in sight. Flowing at 9,200 cfs on Wednesday, it’s predicted to peak at nearly 20,000 cfs on Sunday evening. Arcata resident Mike McCasland landed this nice hatchery steelhead on a recent float down the Chetco River. The Chetco, along with most of the coastal rivers, remain...
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Westlands Water District in Hot Water with Securities & Exchange Commission
by Restore the Delta, MARCH 9, 2016
Sacramento Delta

Stockton, CA - The federal Securities and Exchange Commission charged California’s largest agricultural water district today with misleading investors about its financial condition as it issued a $77 million bond offering, with one of its managers bragging about using “a little Enron accounting.” California’s largest agricultural water district misled investors who bought $77 million of municipal bonds by using...
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Klamath River News and Update
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, MARCH 7, 2016
Klamath River - Upper - CA

The forecast for the Klamath Chinook salmon season is NOT looking very good for the 2016 salmon season. What with four years of drought, no to very little snow pack and very poor water conditions the projected Klamath River fall Chinook salmon ocean abundance of 142,200 is more like the 1996 returns. We could be looking at very small in-river...
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Trintiy Lake Update
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, MARCH 7, 2016
Trinity Lake

Trinity Lake: The Lake is 126ft (an increase of 5ft.) below the overflow and 37% of capacity (2% increase) Inflow to Trinity Lake is 7,248cfs and the Trinity Dam is releasing 749cfs to Lewiston Lake with 422cfs going to Whiskeytown Lake and on to the Keswick Power Plant with 3,239cfs being released to the Sacramento River. ...
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Search out Warm Water
by Gary Heffley, MARCH 3, 2016
Shasta Lake

Those anglers locating and keying into warmer water temperature locations at Shasta Lake have been producing great results. A wide variety of baits such as spinner baits, drop shot, jigs and Texas rigged worms are all proving successful as long as you find surface temperatures a few degrees above the surrounding water. “Fishing Bob”, located some 56 degree water near...
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Iron Gate Update
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, MARCH 3, 2016
Klamath River - Upper - CA

Iron Gate Dam releases are 1,180cfs. Seiad Valley is 5.2ft at 4,250cfs. Happy Camp is estimated at 5,100cfs. Somes Bar is estimated at 9.9Kcfs. Orleans is 9.3ft. at 13.2Kcfs. Klamath at Terwer Creek is 14.9ft at 27.2Kcfs and water temperatures of 48.2 degrees. Flows at Smith River, Dr. Fine Bridge are 9.3ft at 4,620cfs. Temperatures in the Valley last week...
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