Trinity River Fishing

By E.B. Duggan Fishing on the Trinity River this past couple of weeks has really been hard what with the high water flows. Most of the Spring salmon that have been caught on the Trinity has been caught either at Grays Falls or Burnt Ranch Falls. I did hear that some nice steelhead was C & R up at Del Loma...
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Mid-Klamath: Iron Gate Dam releases are 896cfs. Seiad Valley is 2.2ft at 1,180cfs. Happy Camp is estimated at 1,240cfs. Somes Bar is estimated at 1,824cfs. Orleans is 3.4ft. at 2,070cfs. Klamath River at Terwer Creek is 856ft at 1,857cfs and water temperatures of N.A degrees. Flows at Smith River, Dr. Fine Bridge are 5.1ft at 356cfs. Temperatures in the Valley last...
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Trinity River Flows and Conditions: Lewiston Dam releases are 1,920cfs, water temps are 49.3 and air is 78 degrees at 9:00a.m. today. Limekiln Gulch is N/Aft at 699cfs, water temps are N/A and air is N/A. Douglas City is 6.7ft at 720cfs, water temps of N/A and air is N/A. Junction City is 2.2t at 703cfs. Helena is 9.7ft at...
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Trinity Lake: The Lake is 97ft (an increase of 12ft.) below the overflow and 48% of capacity (5% decrease) Inflow to Trinity Lake is 402cfs and the Trinity Dam is releasing 1,635cfs to Lewiston Lake with 47cfs going to Whiskeytown Lake and on to the Keswick Power Plant with 9,909cfs being released to the Sacramento River. ...
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The forecast for the Klamath Chinook salmon season is NOT looking very good for the 2016 salmon season. What with four years of drought, no to very little snow pack and very poor water conditions the projected Klamath River fall Chinook salmon ocean abundance of 142,200 is more like the 1996 returns. We could be looking at very small in-river...
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Trinity Lake: The Lake is 126ft (an increase of 5ft.) below the overflow and 37% of capacity (2% increase) Inflow to Trinity Lake is 7,248cfs and the Trinity Dam is releasing 749cfs to Lewiston Lake with 422cfs going to Whiskeytown Lake and on to the Keswick Power Plant with 3,239cfs being released to the Sacramento River. ...
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