Trinity River Fishing

The Upper Trinity has been good to fair with more down runners that fresh steelhead. The good part is that with the predicted rains coming we could see more winter run steelies which would be greatly appreciated. As for the Lower Trinity we are seeing the river having trouble staying in good steelhead fishing conditions. This year I have seen...
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Klamath: Iron Gate Dam releases are 1,700cfs. Seiad Valley is 5.8ft at 5,080cfs. Happy Camp is estimated at 5,860cfs. Somes Bar is estimated at 11.1Kcfs. Orleans is 10ft. at 14.6Kcfs. Klamath at Terwer Creek is 10.1ft at 27.8Kcfs and water temperatures of 45.8 degrees. Flows at Smith River, Dr. Fine Bridge are 10.1ft at 6,130cfs. Temperatures in the Valley last...
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Mid Klamath: the Mid-Klamath from I-5 down the river flows are on the high side with Seiad Valley being over 5,000cfsgh and Orleans at 14.6Kcfs I don’t think the Mid-Klamath will be fishable for another couple of weeks. The Lower Klamath is out of the question for fishing at least for another week or more....
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Trinity Lake: The Lake is 47ft (an increase of 99ft.) below the overflow and 33% of capacity (2% increase) Inflow to Trinity Lake is 4,097cfs and the Trinity Dam is releasing 334cfs to Lewiston Lake with 188cfs going to Whiskeytown Lake and on to the Keswick Power Plant with 2,982cfs being released to the Sacramento River. ...
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Lower Trinity Report: The Lower Trinity from the South Fork down is bleeding slate green mud from the Coon Creek slide below Hyampom on the South Fork. Up river it is a nice steelhead green just a little high. Del Loma is fishable from the bank in fact a nice adult winter run Iron Head was caught & released behind...
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MORE WATER STORAGE? On February 10th Senator Feinstein introduced a water bill that would provide $1.3 billion for long term-water storage, desalinization and recycling. The bill would authorize $600 million for CALFED water storage projects. It would allow increase water storage in reservoirs such as Shasta, Temperance Flat, Los Vaqueros and others....
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