River is up and pea green, but fishable. It is currently running at 900 cfs by my house. We are catching some nice wild winter run fish, but the upper river has been real crowded form lewiston down to Douglas city. We have hooked most of our fish swinging rubber leg stones. Here are a couple of fish before the river blew out.
We Finally got some rain that redistributed the Steelhead throughout the upper Trinity. The fishing has really picked up the last couple of weeks. The crowds thinned out for the holidays, and I had a lot of river to myself. It has been nice.
We are getting most of our fish swinging rubber leg Stone flies size # 10
Here are some holiday Steele’s
Steelheading has continually slowed for the last couple of weeks, with water temps dropping to 39 degrees in the monings. We have been averaging a couple of fish a day, but it is tough. We are expecting a pretty good stom this weekend continuing into next week, (I hope they get it right). Fish still seem to be from Douglas City through Junction City. Rubber leg stone flies and small psyco prince’s worked this week. Expect to dig them out till we get some rain. here are some current pic’s
The fall Steelhead season is off to a good start. It is much better than last year and looks to be very good as encouraging numbers are showing at the Willow Creek weer. There is a lull in the run currently with fish tanking up. We need some rain to get the fish moving up once more, we are supposed to get some weather next week. There is also a lot of boat and foot traffic, so be prepaired.The water temp in Junction City was at 50 degrees yesterday. We are having good success skating mudler minnows and leaches in the deeper riffles and tail outs. This is one of the few times a year you can get a Steelhead on a waking or skating fly. IT IS A BLAST!!
Here are some recent photos
I made very few posts over the summer as they were starting to sound redundant, also I was fishing a lot of water out of the area.
The good new is the Steelhead are finally arriving. The lower river has quite a few holding in the canyons, with some good reports of half pounders. I saw a few in the upper river yesterday, but did not hook any. I have been catching some nice browns over the summer, and we have caught some large Salmon lately. Things will get going soon with Steelhead with the cooling weather. The fly water closed the 15th and the river is dropping from 450 cfs to 300 cfs on the 1st. I have springers spawning in my back yard and the water temp is 58-60 degrees. Here ars some shots of late.
Sorry for so long between posts. I have been Helping the shop up on the Yuba for the last 6 weeks at Shad camp. Shad fishing was incredible this year, it was a lot of fun. The Salmon are showing well in the lower river and will be in my back yard in days. I have seen a couple go by the house, and it’s supposed to be a great run. Lewiston Lake is fishig well with the usual leach patterns and soft hackles, when fish are near the surface.
Here are a few Shad shots from the Yuba.
The Trinity River is currently running at 2800 cfs. It will be back to wadable levels around the first week in June, where it will be in the low teens. We should have our spring run kings showing at that time. We will also have our resident browns happening.
Lewiston Lake is fishing good, we have been averaging a dozen fish a day up to three pounds, mostly on #10 olive leaches. The lake is clearing and has a nice current running through it with the increased flows.
Here are a couple photo’s from this week.
The fly-water opener was pretty crazy with shoulder to shoulder fishermen. They started showing up about 3 hrs before the sun even came up. Most of the fish headed down river after the first day in fear of being stepped on. We managed a few nice fish on the surface and emerger patterns. I spent some time on Lewiston lake, Having mixed success. The fish we have caught this year have been quality. They are averaging 12-16 inches and are little footballs. The hatches have tapered off with the mixed weather patterns and we have caught most fish on #10 olive Leach patterns . Here are some photo’s from this week.
The Steelhead season is slowly comming to a close. We are still getting one here and there, But most of the fish are on their beds or downrunning. we are getting some nice browns on dries, and Lewiston Lake is starting to turn on. We hooked 3 yesterday on dries and Leaches.
Here are some recient shots.
We are finally getting some weather. The river is running brown at the moment. I may have to cancel trips on the river for the next couple of days and go up to Lewiston Lake, which is fishing good. We landed four fish on dries yesterday, it was great!!! We are getting most of our fish swinging golden stones. Here are a couple of shots from this last week.
