Happy Father’s Day to all the fishermen.

It is nice to see several streams above the Iron Gate Dam (removed) having juvenile fish being trapped and counted. If this continues eventually the Upper Klamath will recover and see an anadromous fish run. This is great news and could eventually allow a Salmon fishery for the Klamath River. Now will that help the Trinity? That will be the Question!! I am very happy to see that the removal of the Dams on the Klamath is seeing some good results as predicted from the science. Now CDFW and the Tribes will have to build on those results!

The results on the Klamath rive could help bring back Salmon fishing to the Trinity but that is something only time will tell. In my experience of stream rehabilitation, it usually takes about four to five years to get a steady return of anadromous fish returns. It does work but it still takes time and help. The form of help is by increasing fish hatchery production not shutting sown fish hatcheries. It is sad news that CDFW is closing the Mad River fish hatchery. It seems as though the state wants to shut down all fish hatcheries. CDFW all ready loses 3,000 to 5,000 fishermen per year. (buying fish licenses) This is a great loss of funds for fishing projects. With the loss of hatcheries and the loss of people not buying fish licenses people are going out of state to fish.

I just got back from a two-week trip to Montana, Wyoming, Utha, and Colorado. I checked many rivers, the Snake, Yellow Stone, Madison, Henery, Lake Ennis, Stillwater and the Upper Colorado and they were all high and muddy from snow melt and rain. The rivers were so high that you couldn’t even get into the water to cast a line. Any place the had an area that you might be able to fish was already taken. Some places you had to have a boat to fish so I was out of luck on that point. I did have a great time even though I couldn’t go fishing I saw a lot of great water.

The Trinity is finally down to wading and in some pace swimming and a lot of sun bathing. It is not down to summer flows yet but is on its way so one should be cautious. At Kimtu Beach and Big Rock the river looks great but still had a swift current so one has to be careful when trying to swim.
Note: The river reports are not complete as the California Data Exchange Center is not complete in their reporting for some reason!

Lewiston Lake: The releases from Trinity Lake into Lewiston Lake are still high. Lewiston Lake should be fishing well by now as the releases into the lake are diminishing. My recommendation would be to try and contact the Pine Cove Marina and ask Louise or Matt (530)778-3878); for the Upper Trinity     River you can call Indian Creek Lodge, Andy or Hannah, (530)623-6294), Junction City Store, Butch, (530)623-2803. 

Willow Creek: Fishing the Willow Creek area would be fair if you get there before the sunbathers of swimmers. Fishing below Big Rock or up above where the South Fork comes in should be fair as the river drops. 

Mid-Klamath to Happy Camp: The Klamath River at Weitchpec is flowing 7,674cfs. This is a decrease of 5,993cfs. The Iron Gate/Bogus Creek area is flowing 1,296cfs a decrease of 886cfs from the last report. To get the latest fishing information I suggest you call Marble Mountain Guest Ranch (800) 522-6284, or Scott Caldwell, SC Guide Service (530)905-0758 to get proper fishing information to fish the Upper Klamath.

Lake Conditions: These readings are for June 14 at midnight. It appears that readings are being posted a day late. Whiskeytown is 99% of capacity (an increase of 1%) with inflows of N/Acfs with releases of N/Acfs. Shasta Lake is 89% of capacity, a decrease of 4% and minus 6ft with inflows of N/Acfs and releasing N/Acfs into Keswick. Keswick is 90% of capacity (an increase of 2%) with inflows of N/Acfs and releases of N/Acfs into the Sacramento River. Oroville Lake is 99% of capacity, a decrease of 1% and minus 2ft, with inflows of N/Acfs with releases of N/Acfs into the Feather River. Folsom Lake is 91% of capacity, a decrease of 3% and minus 3ft, with inflows of N/Acfs with releases of N/Acfs into the American River. Trinity Lake storage is 2,258,330AF a decrease of 7,024AF of storage. 

Trinity Lake: The lake is 12ft below the overflow, a decrease of 0ft and 92% of capacity (a decrease of 0%) with inflows of N/Acfs and releasing N/Acfs into Lewiston Lake with N/Acfs being diverted to Whiskeytown and on to the Keswick Power Plant, and releasing N/Acfs into the Sacramento River. 

Trinity River flows and conditions: Trinity Lake is 92% of capacity, a decrease of 0% and 12ft below the overflow a decrease of 0ft. Lewiston Dam is 92% of capacity, a decrease 0% and water releases of N/Acfs into the Trinity River, with water temperatures of 49 degrees, as of 10:00am today Sunday June 15, 2025.  Limekiln Gulch is 5.40t at 899cfs. Douglas City is 7.25ft with flows of 870cfs with water temperatures of 56.5 degrees. Junction City is N/Aft at N/Acfs. Helena is 10.41ft at 1,352cfs with water temps of 58.1 degrees. Cedar Flat (Burnt Ranch) is N/Aft at 0.00cfs (Gauge is still out of order). South Fork of the Trinity near Hyampom is 4.34 at 317cfs. Willow Creek is estimated at 1,669cfs, air is 58 degrees and water at 61.5 degrees, Hoopa is 13.43ft at 2,344cfs with water at 66.8 degrees. 

Klamath River flows and conditions: Flows at the Iron Gate/ Bogas Creek are 1,296cfs, a decrease of 882cfs. Seiad Valley is 3.69ft at 2,508cfs. Indian Creek is 4.13ft at 168cfs. Happy Camp is estimated to be 2,676cfs, Somes Bar is estimated to be 4,149cfs, and the Salmon River is 3.11ft at 1,181cfs. Orleans is 5.30ft at 5,330cfs, the Klamath River at Terwer Creek is 10.33ft flowing at 6,833cfs with water temps of 66.3 degrees. Flows for the Smith River at Jediah Smith are 5.17ft with flows of 581cfs. and flows at Dr. Fine Bridge are 11.91ft at N/A. The Smith is dropping pretty fast.

Temperatures for the Valley last week had a high of 107 and a low of 46 degrees. Rain for the week was 0.00in with a water year total to date of 53.47 and 1.75in of snow in Willow Creek. The predicted temperatures for next week are for high of 86 and a low of 46. The weather predicted for the next week is looking like we are going to have sunshine most of week with clouds the rest of the week.