Fishing Articles

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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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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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 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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The Lake is 134ft (an increase of 5ft.) below the overflow and 35% of capacity (3% increase) Inflow to Trinity Lake is 3,069cfs and the Trinity Dam is releasing 392cfs to Lewiston Lake with 79cfs going to Whiskeytown Lake and on to the Keswick Power Plant with 3,118cfs being released to the Sacramento River.

The Upper-Klamath was seeing some good steelhead and trout fishing all the way down to the Seiad Valley. That could hold if the coming storms do not blow out the upper part of the river. From Happy Camp on down the Klamath has been pretty high and it doesn’t look like that will change for the near term. Orleans is...
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