Fishing Articles

Ocean Salmon Numbers on the Upswing
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Humboldt County Coast

Spring rains, and lots of it, can do wonders for our salmon and steelhead populations. Following a wet spring in 2017, the benefits are starting to roll in. At Wednesday’s annual Ocean salmon Information meeting in Santa Rosa, CDFW suggested 274,222 Klamath River fall Chinook adults are swimming in the ocean. Not a huge number, but still right around the...
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Good Salmon Forecast for 2019 Suggests Plentiful Fishing
by GGSA Staff, FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Today, officials forecast 379,632 adult Sacramento Valley salmon are now in the ocean off the West Coast, compared to 229,400 a year ago at this time. This suggests a return to relatively plentiful salmon fishing in 2019 is likely. In the month ahead, officials with the Pacific Fisheries Management Council will use this forecast and other information to set times and areas open...
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Razor Clamming Reopens March 1 on Clatsop Beach
by ODFW, FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Razor clamming will reopen on Clatsop Beach (from Tillamook Head in Seaside to the mouth of the Columbia River) on Friday, March 1. This area had been closed to protect undersize clams and give them a chance to grow, after 2018 fall surveys found mostly small clams with shell lengths between 2-3 inches. “The small razor clams on Clatsop Beach we observed this fall...
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Trinity River Slide
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, FEBRUARY 26, 2019
Trinity River

On Thru. Feb. 21 and Fri. Feb. 22, just west of the Salyer rest stop where Highway 299 was changed over the river from a previous slide, a new slide came down and went over the old highway clear down into the river and dammed up the Trinity River for several hours until the pressure from the water building up...
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Steelhead Planted in Feather River
by Denis Peirce, FEBRUARY 23, 2019
Feather River

Over the past ten days the Feather River Hatchery has been planting juvenile steelhead into the Feather River. This year the hatchery produced 460,000 fish for planting in the river and it took over a week with three trucks to get them all down to the Boyd's Pump launch ramp. The ramp at Boyd's Pump is a few miles below...
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Fall Klamath King Returns Were Up In 2018
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, FEBRUARY 21, 2019
Klamath River

Last fall produced some of the best king salmon fishing on both the Klamath and Trinity Rivers in recent memory, and the preliminary number of returning kings seem to reflect just that. While we’re still not back up to average runs sizes, we’re headed in the right direction. The CDFW predicted a river run size of 91,873 in 2018, and...
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