The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

Sad to say NCFFB has long since been a place where you can responsibly post reports. Especially about a river like the T that is already WAY over fished. Just too many people.

I don't think that "overfished" and "overcrowded" are the same thing. "Overfished" implies that the fishery is hurting due to the fishing pressure. I don't think one can make that argument about the Trinity given the return numbers this year (or even most years). Given that most of the fish are hatchery, and pretty much bred to be caught, the argument becomes even harder to make that the Trinity is overfished.

"Overcrowded" is a judgement call and varies from person to person. The Trinity is crowded, but so are most streams in California. I realized this is just semantics, but I think we need to be careful about making the issue (even implied) that the fish are suffering from the fishing, when that just doesn't seem to be the case, at least on the Trinity. I don't think it is irresponsible to post reports about the Trinity in the least (as far as fishing pressure on the fish is concerned).

As far as reports about the Trinity, I hear about it a lot more places than here on the NCFFB, but I live in Humboldt County and it is close.

Dawn