Fishing Articles

Up 6 feet
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, FEBRUARY 8, 2016
Trinity Lake

Trinity Lake: The Lake is 151ft (an increase of 6ft.) below the overflow and 29% of capacity (2% increase) Inflow to Trinity Lake is 1,650cfs and the Trinity Dam is releasing 526cfs to Lewiston Lake with 214cfs going to Whiskeytown Lake and on to the Keswick Power Plant with 2,994cfs being released to the Sacramento River. ...
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High and Muddy
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, FEBRUARY 8, 2016
Trinity River

Fishing: The Lower Trinity from the South Fork down was just too high and muddy to fish and probably won’t come into fishing conditions until next week sometime. Your best bet would be to call ahead to make sure that area is fishable. Like I said earlier, fishing from the bank is possible from Del Loma to Junction City and...
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Collins Lake Fishing Report
by Collins Lake Staff, FEBRUARY 5, 2016
Collins Lake

What a difference a month makes!! On January 1st the lake was still at an all time low and February 1st we are at 57% capacity with only 24 ft. more to go before our lake spills! Of course our hope would be to fill up entirely but even if that doesn’t happen this year, we would still start...
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Chetco is side-drifting
Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, FEBRUARY 4, 2016
Chetco River

The Chetco's finally side-drifting! Darrell Wells was side-drifting and bobber-dogging the Chetco River with his son, guide Randy Wells on Thursday when they caught and released several wild steelhead, donated one wild fish to the broodstock program and took home this dandy hatchery steelhead.

Plunker Scores on Chetco
Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, FEBRUARY 3, 2016
Chetco River

Donna Emfinger from Grants Pass, Oregon decided to fish the Chetco last week and caught this nice hatchery winter steelhead while plunking a pearl pink Spin-N-Glo with white wings at Social Security Bar.

Good Above North Fork
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, FEBRUARY 3, 2016
Trinity River

The river is still in good shape above the North Fork, but it’s still a little on the big side. Snow fell a good part of the day on Tuesday, which should keep the flows at a good level. Rain was in the forecast for Wednesday, which could muddy up some of the creeks. There’s hasn’t been much boat pressure...
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