Trinity River Fishing


River Dropping Need Some Rain
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Trinity River - Willow Creek Weir

 The weather this last week has been dry and sunny. I know the Holidays are coming up but the river needs some water and the only way for right now is for some rain. Even though the river is low the upper section has been producing some nice Iron Heads. From the pictures I have been receiving there have been...
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Rain Helping The River
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Trinity River - Willow Creek Weir

Sorry about last week’s no report. Computer got sick and had to go to the doctor. I got some good feedback from the October 25 column. I like that some people read the column and comment back about what they think about what I wrote. The problem being hat they don’t always do the proper research to find out the...
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Problems With Upper Trinity River
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, OCTOBER 22, 2023

Trinity River - Willow Creek Weir

 What has happened to the Trinity River Restoration in the upper forty miles of restoration? In 2000 Sectary of Interior Babette signed the Record of Decision (ROD) and the Trinity Management Council (TMC the governing body), Trinity River Restoration Project (TRRP) and Trinity Adaptive Management Working Group (TAMWG public advisory) were formed to restore the top forty (40) miles of...
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Winter Flows Startin
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, OCTOBER 16, 2023

Trinity River - Willow Creek Weir

Bureau of Reclamation will reduce water releases to 300cfs October 16th. The releases will begin dropping from 450cfs at 8:00am Monday morning and be down to 300cfs by 4pm Monday afternoon. It will take some time before it reaches Hoopa and from then until “Winter Augmentation Flows” it will be strictly weather-related events that will control water flows on the...
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Fal lis Here and Where Are The Fish?
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, OCTOBER 8, 2023

Trinity River - Willow Creek Weir

September was the beginning of Autumn. (Fall to us) We had a little rain and the last rush of Spring Chinook and Summer Steelhead. It made for some good fishing and things kind of went south as for fishing. Fishing has been fair in the lower sections of the Trinity River but fair to good in the upper sections. It kind of...
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The Last of The Springer's Are Making A Run For It
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, OCTOBER 2, 2023

Trinity River - Willow Creek Weir

Another burst of rain should bring in the last push of Spring Run Chinook Salmon for the Trinity River. Hopefully it will also bring in more Steelhead. The last rain brought in a nice run of Steelhead and a lot of adult Steelhead were caught and released. Right now, it looks like the Lower section of the river is only...
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