Trinity River Fishing

Well it looks like Fall is officially here. I have been getting scratchy information from some fishermen hooking into some early Fall Run fish and the Willow Creek Weir has been counting some Fall Hatchery Coho from the fishermen I contacted they are hooking into some chrome fish both in the upper reaches of the river and in the lower...
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It looks like the weather is taking a turn towards a cool down. Normally as the weather cools down the water starts to cooling down and the fish start moving up river. This year the water is cooling some but is still up in there in the 60 degrees which means the fish will be still looking for cold water...
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We are experiencing some warmer weather this week but we are also seeing more salmon and steelhead in the river. Charlie B of Redding wrote me that he had fished after the Holiday Weekend and hooked three nice fresh salmon below the North Fork and then went down river and landed a nice steelhead. (Sorry no size) This is good...
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 Last week we had a huge down pour in the valley. It lasted about one hour but dropped over an inch of rain. You couldn’t leave cover or you would be soaking wet. The rain was good for the fires but the lightening was the cause of a couple of small spot fire that locals were able to extinguish, thank...
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We had some very hot weather last week with a few thunder showers at the beginning of the week that started some fires. On Saturday we had measurable rain that came all at once then left with a flurry of light showers and thunder and lightning. The fires ae still burning and leaving heavy smoke in the valley. The closest...
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  I am sorry about not having some results abut the fish disease on the Upper Trinity. PG&E outages messed up my internet and I was unable to do anything on the computer. It is strange as to how much we depend upon the internet and cell phones. Without electricity one is helpless. What will California do when it goes...
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