Trinity River Fishing

Quotas for the Lower and Upper Trinity of adult Chinook salmon will be met by October 21st according to Sara Borok, environmental scientist for the Klamath / Trinity River Basin at CDFW. The Upper and Lower Trinity River shall reach the adult Chinook salmon quotas of 183 adults each side. Without a real time creel count on the river, the calculated...
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Quotas for the Lower and Upper Klamath River for Chinook salmon has been met according to CDFW. The Lower Klamath from Weitchpec down to the mouth met their adult Chinook salmon quota of 555 adult Chinook salmon several weeks ago and are only allowed to keep Chinook salmon under 22 inches. The upper Klamath from Weitchpec Bridge (Hiwy 96) to...
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Trinity River Flows and Conditions: Lewiston Dam releases are 1,040cfs, water temps are 52.3 and air is 88 degrees at 12:00p.m. today. Limekiln Gulch is 5.5ft at 1,060cfs, water temps are 52.6 and air is 78. Douglas City is 7.1ft at 1,020cfs, water temps of 52.6 and air is 82.Junction City is 2.6ft at 978cfs. Helena is 9.9ft at 953cfs...
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Trinity Lake: The Lake is 115ft (an increase of 5ft.) below the overflow and 41% of capacity (2% decrease) Inflow to Trinity Lake is 120fs and the Trinity Dam is releasing 1,488cfs to Lewiston Lake with 448cfs going to Whiskeytown Lake and on to the Keswick Power Plant with 8,545cfs being released to the Sacramento River. ...
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Increased water releases from Iron Gate have improved the fishing but I did not get home early enough to make contact with some of the people who fish that area of the river. The Gap Fire is still burning in the Happy Camp to Seiad Valley area but the roads are open and fishing is fair and smoke is not...
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Sorry but I was called out of town last weekend just when the mouth of the Klamath broke open and fresh Fall Chinook started to head up the river. The water flows will start dropping again Sept. 20th and we should see more fresh salmon and steelhead head up the Lower Klamath towards the Trinity. The Out-migrant Monitoring of...
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