Trinity River Fishing

I hope everyone has a great Christmas and that the day is full of family and good times.  Yes we have been having rain in the valley and most of the rivers are unfishable because of some flooding. The river bar in front of my house is just barely sticking its nose out of water after being under water for two...
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I hope everyone had a great Turkey day and didn’t eat too much Turkey and pumpkin pie.  While down south with family for the Holiday I read in the paper that Westland’s Water District was lobbing the Government to forgive $375 million debt for them to take 100,000 acres of their 600,000 acres of land out of irrigation. Also one of...
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The forecast is for steady rain and showers for the next week to ten days but not heavy rains. This should start winter run steelhead coming into the rivers. I wish all my readers a Happy Thanksgiving and a Merry Christmas. I will be having family for the Holidays so it will be hard to get out a fishing report but...
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If one can believe the weather forecasts, the Trinity River Valley can expect more rain in the next two weeks. As I perused the weather forecasts for the Trinity River area, it says that rain and scattered showers are expected starting this coming Sunday through the following week. If this is to happen all but the upper most part of...
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 As the storms keep piling up, the Reservoirs start to recover from the drought and the rivers and streams flow into the main stems of the rivers. With flows returning to winter dimensions, more fish are able to reach their spawing grounds in the upper reaches of the streams. We are close to coming back to a normal type of...
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This storm, (4.6in), plus what has already dropped from the skies, another 10 inches, has brought in lots of water to the reservoirs and provided the rivers of the north coast the much needed water to raise the rivers and allowed a great influx of fish. The Willow Creek weir was removed to prevent it from washing away so there...
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