Fished the Trinity Friday and Saturday this weekend. As expected, challenging fishing and somewhat crowded. But we did stick a few fish! The fish have not yet gotten into the upper river in significant numbers. Need rain. Most fish are hanging below Junction City, as are most of the fisherman. Yesterday we fished with Brian and Mike from the Fly Shop. Excellent guides and they worked really hard for us and helped all of us catch a fish during the day. Despite that our hot bite was very late in the day with a whole lot of river still to cover. We pulled into the take-out with very little light left on the horizen. They put in a long day and did a great job!
Here's a pic of a nice hot wild fish, my first of this year. This fish was only about 20 inches, yet was bright and feisty and had an adipose. It doesn't get better than this!
Two years ago we had monstrous runs on the Trinity, and visions of 20 and 30 fish days. That was the past. This year, and last, the river has returned to true steelhead fishing. A fish or two in a day should be the expectation. Any more is icing on the cake.
Today we visited the Trinity Hatchery, and saw quite a few salmon ascending the fish ladder, along with some really big steelhead in the hatchery raceway. Pretty cool stuff.
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