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Winter Steelhead Season Knocking on the Door
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, DECEMBER 6, 2024



Fresh kings still coming into the Chetco, Smith likey done for the year With the late-fall king season all but wrapped up on the coastal rivers, it’s time to turn our attention to winter steelhead, likely the most popular fishery on the North Coast. With the last storm providing plenty of water to all of the rivers, anglers are primed and...
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Look Like The Stormy Weather is Over For a While
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, DECEMBER 1, 2024

Trinity River - Willow Creek Weir

 It looks like we are going to have some good weather for the next week with the possibility to have some good Steelhead fishing as the streams and rivers start dropping. The weirs have ben pulled because of the antimorphic river that just passed through. The storm dropped 7.57 10 inches of rain in the Willow Creek area. I know...
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Eagle Lake Report
by Valerie Aubrey, NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Eagle Lake

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! The holiday weekend shouldn't be storming but expect it to be cold (I had 9F this morning) & get above freezing later. We did get about an inch of snow yesterday & with that little bit & rain, made for treacherous travel with black ice. So be very careful heading up. We also get pond fog with...
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Atmospheric Rivers Put an End to Late-Fall King Season
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, NOVEMBER 21, 2024



This week’s report will be mostly about water, because there’s a lot more water at the moment than fishing opportunities. In case you haven’t heard, the North Coast is smackdab in the middle of some severe storms that are taking aim at the coast with heavy winds and copious amounts of rain. Several rivers are forecast to exceed monitor and...
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We Are in Winter Weather
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Trinity River - Willow Creek Weir

We have been having rain for the past week and I is getting soaked. Willow Creek has had over five inches of rain now with more to come. The weather people ae predicting more rain for the coming week. This is good for the firefighters here in northern California. Too bad some of this rain isn’t reaching southern California, they...
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Coastal King Season Off and Running
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, NOVEMBER 7, 2024



Smith and Chetco both kick out big kings The season’s first big storms hit North Coast over the weekend and the Smith and Chetco both kicked out good numbers of kings. Both rivers have been loaded with kings in their lower sections for quite some time, and when the rivers finally rose, they were on the move. On Friday evening, the Smith...
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