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Fresh salmon loading up the Trinity River — flows to go higher
BY JIM JONES/WON Staff WriterPublished: Aug 02, 2012
JUNCTION CITY — “Fishing is great,” were Liam Gogan’s first words in giving his Trinity River report.
He’s been putting his clients consistently on to limits of dime-bright kings every single day for the last few weeks, and there is no sign of the good fishing tapering off. In fact, it’s likely to continue to improve. Although Gogan has been fishing the stretch of river between Douglas City and Junction City, he said fishing has been very good from Lewiston and the North Fork, too. He’s been using Kwikfish early in the morning, then switching to roe.
Farther downriver, schools of salmon are moving fast, and Ed Duggan of “D” Guide Service said that in talking to the Del Loma RV Campground, anglers were catching lots of fish using roe and tuna balls. He also said that one of Duggan’s customers, Cameron of Colorado (no last name given), fished with Forest Brizendine of Nor Cal River Drift’n, up by Dutch Creek. They caught two salmon, one weighing 10 pounds, and the other 15 pounds on sardine-wrapped plugs, plus a bonus 5-pound brown trout on a fly.
Duggan and Gogan said that flows will increase on the Trinity starting Aug. 15. The pulse flow is intended to bring water temperatures down on the Klamath River to stave off a recurrence of the massive fish dieoff on the Klamath of 2002. Then, between 30,000 and 70,000 salmon died in water that was too warm and lacking in oxygen.
LOW-DOWN KINGS — The king salmon were holding in the bottom of the holes on the Trinity River, but guide Steve Huber of Steve Huber's Guide Service found them by sidedrifting roe for Peggy and Greg from Santa Clara.
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JUNCTION CITY — “Fishing is great,” were Liam Gogan’s first words in giving his Trinity River report. He’s been putting his clients consistently on to limits of dime-bright kings every single day for the last few weeks, and there is no sign of the good fishing tapering off. In fact, it’s likely to continue to improve. Although Gogan has been fishing the stretch of river between Douglas City and Junction City, he said fishing has been very good from Lewiston and the North Fork, too. He’s been using Kwikfish early in the morning, then switching to roe. Farther downriver, schools of salmon are moving fast, and Ed Duggan of “D” Guide Service said that in talking to the Del Loma RV Campground, anglers were catching lots of fish using roe and tuna balls. He also said that one of Duggan’s customers, Cameron of Colorado (no last name given), fished with Forest Brizendine of Nor Cal River Drift’n, up by Dutch Creek. They caught two salmon, one weighing 10 pounds, and the other 15 pounds on sardine-wrapped plugs, plus a bonus 5-pound brown trout on a fly. Duggan and Gogan said that flows will increase on the Trinity starting Aug. 15. The pulse flow is intended to bring water temperatures down on the Klamath River to stave off a recurrence of the massive fish dieoff on the Klamath of 2002. Then, between 30,000 and 70,000 salmon died in water that was too warm and lacking in oxygen. LOW-DOWN KINGS — The king salmon were holding in the bottom of the holes on the Trinity River, but guide Steve Huber of Steve Huber's Guide Service found them by sidedrifting roe for Peggy and Greg from Santa Clara. |
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