Trinity River Fishing

 It is hard to believe that it is October already and Fall weather is suppose to be cooler weather. Not this week! We are experiencing some false summer in October when it normally is in mid-September. I know it is crazy but this year we are having mixed weather patterns. From all indications the area is going to experience a...
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The Trinity River water flows are back to summer flows of 450cfs. This will last to about mid to late October when BOR will drop the water flows back to winter flows of 300cfs. There is the possibility of BOR maintaining the summer flows a little longer into the winter summer flows but not guaranteed.  As the river has been...
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The Bureau of Reclamation is reducing water releases to the Trinity River to summer flows of 450cfs by 4:00am Wednesday September 23, 2026. This will be the end of higher water flows to the Klamath/Trinity River Basin. This flushing has also helped to reduce the contamination of Ich (Ichthyophthirius). Ich is the parasite that attacks the skin and gills of...
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On August 28 the Bureau of Reclamation started to increase water flows to 1,200cfs. This increase of water flow did several things, it helped decrease the problem of ICH helping the fish to recover, cooling the water and moving the fish into the Klamath as well as moving up river. The Lower Klamath below 101 Bridge has met their quota...
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With the fires, heat and smoke plus the heavy moss in the river the salmon have been slow in moving up river. Low water in both the Upper Klamath and Trinity Rivers has really made for slow Salmon fishing also. Now that Salmon fishing is open again, I am not receiving the fishing reports that I am used to getting....
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The area is predicted to start to cool down from Wednesday and the river should be fishable by the weekend. Up River down to the Willow Creek area should start to be fishable in the early morning. For the out of area fishers, you can get up before sunrise get to you spot by sunrise fish until the sun hits...
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