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I fished the Trinity this past weekend as well. I was hoping the rain would get the fish moving and spread them throughout the river. They were in the usual big holes, but also found them in the smaller pocket water as well, just not in big numbers. It was really cold in the mornings (low 30's) and overcast (low fog or something). The river levels look better than previous years, which is good...gave us more to fish.
On Saturday we floated the lower section (Junction City to Pigeon Point) and hooked 6 steelhead, but we only managed to landed 3 of them. They took the usual flies for this river: red copper johns, egg patterns and stonefly nymphs. We saw a decent number of fish in the river, but the numbers are still low compared to previous years. As Phil said, back to normal steelhead fishing. I was shocked to see there were very few boats or bait fisherman on the river. We had almost every pool to ourselves. I was able to fish holes that I've never been able to fish because people were always posted up. In fact we only saw two other boats the whole day. Fish-n-Game, as well as the other boats, said Friday was an absolute zoo, so maybe they all went to another section on Sat.
Sunday we floated a section further upstream (Steel Bridge to Douglas). The water was a little lower, but still enough to float it. We saw a lot of salmon in the river, but not as many steelhead. It was also a lot colder in the morning making it tough to fish. We caught one steelhead, nice 26 inch hen and one salmon. I wish that salmon was a steelhead; we thought it was at first. It would have been a monster. The salmon was still very silver and jumped a few times, making it pretty exciting. Both fish took egg patterns.
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