Current Trinity River Fly Fishing Report: 12.11.2024 Trinity River Fishing Report – December Steelhead Season It’s officially GO TIME for steelhead fly fishing on the Trinity River! I am getting into excellent numbers of fish from Lewiston all the way down river. A couple trips down to Willow Creek has produced spectacular results. As we…
Current Trinity River Fly Fishing Report: 10.08.2024 The weather has been hot! Because of that, the middle reaches of the Trinity are warm. Too warm for steady migration. So what dies this mean today? As the days get shorter, nights cooler and longer, the steelhead fishing will improve. I know there are some decent reports…
Current Trinity River Fly Fishing Report: 05.13.2024 Almost summer! The Trinity is buzzing with energy! That’s for sure. What kind of energy? Well, not exactly “great fishing” energy. The energy is in the form of water flow. As of Wednesday, April 24th, with a hearty flow of 8,500 CFS (Cubic Feet Per Second), the fishing…
Current Trinity River Fly Fishing Report: 03.01.2024 What a great, GREAT season it has been on the Trinity River. It is still going strong. However by mid month of March, we start to see more and more down run fish in the net. Not nearly as many fresh steelhead. There are late winter fish and…
Current Trinity River Fly Fishing Report: 01.10.2024 Happy New Year!!! And what an incredible year it has been thus far. I haven’t seen this river fish as well since the early 2000’s. We are now in the middle of the season, early winter, and the Steelhead are far from disappointing us. Steelhead fishing is still…
Current Trinity River Fly Fishing Report: 12.01.2023 We are nearing the end of the Autumn season and with that, sometimes the busy crowded season on the Trinity River. Winter weather can make for the best steelhead fly fishing of the season for those who are courageous enough or really… for those who just know better….
Current Trinity River Fly Fishing Report: 11.01.2023 It’s been one of those special autumns. More productive than past years. Everybody is having a great time and for sure there are more fish to go around. We will see the kind of precipitation that produces about the most perfect conditions anyone could ask for. Steady wet…
Current Trinity River Fly Fishing Report: 09/24/2023 Heading into autumn the Trinity River and specifically the river conditions are typical. Clear and low. Not great for boating, good for rafts and drift boats nonetheless. The ease of wading this river from Lewsiton, CA. all the way down to its confluence with the Klamath River can’t…
Northern California’s Trinity River offers an amazing fly fishing experience. All year. Especially between November and early March. Sometimes it seems we spend our summers and spring celebrating fly fishing on the waters of the Lower Sacramento River out of Redding CA. Or on the storied waters of the McCloud. The ruthless Pit River and…
As we reach the middle of summer, there is always some elevated attention shifted away from the Lower Sacramento River and toward the Trinity River. For clarity, the Trinity River really swings into action come October. As of this writing, the fish we dream of is moving into the lower reaches of the Trinity. Reports…