On Wednesday May 6, 2026 the California Fish and Game Commission will have a phone conference to determine if they will agree to accept the California Department of Fish and Wildlife recommendation of an In-River Sport Fishing Salmon season. The proposed recommendation is for an In-River Sport Fall Chinook Salmon season quota of 3,248 for the Klamath River Basin. They have already agreed to have an Ocean Commercial and Sport Fishing season with an In-River Spring Salmon season of one fish per day July 1 to August 15 or until the quota is met. If the In-River Fall Run Chinook Salmon Sport fishing season passes it would be 2 Salmon per day with 1 Adult, 1Jack or 2 Jacks. It would break down to; Lower Klamath River below Hwy 101 Bridge (the spit) 974, 650 above Hwy 101 Bridge to the Hwy 96 Bridge at Weitchpec. For the Upper Klamath River above Hwy 96 at Weitchpec 552. The Trinity River would be 1,072 Adult Salmon fish; 536 Adult Salmon from the mouth of the Trinity River to the Hwy 299 Bridge West at Burnt Ranch and 536 Adult Salmon for the upper Trinity above Hwy 299 Bridge West. I know this doesn’t sound like very many fish but at least it is a semblance of a fishing season. Remember we haven’t had a Salmon fishing season for three years!  We now could possibly have one.

There has been Spring water releases for the past several weeks and the river is up fairly high which has made fishing of Steelhead fishing a little bit hard but Spring Salmon fishing will start July1. So, it is time to get your fishing license report cards and start to going through your fishing tackle to get ready of fishing!

Lewiston Lake: Lewiston Lake flows have been up but the warm days have made fishermen angus to go fishing. Louise has said the fishing has been good and they have been very busy. Fly fishermen are doing the best with Prince Nymphs, Midges and some dry flies. Bait fishermen are using garlic scented bait and night crawlers. The best fishing seemed to be form boats. You can contact the Pine Cove Marina and ask Louise or Matt (530)778-3878) for Lewiston Lake fishing; for the Upper Trinity River you can call Indian Creek Lodge, Andy or Hannah, (530)623-6294), Junction City Store, (530)623-2803. The Junction City store has a new owner and I have not contacted her yet.  

Willow Creek area: Willow Creek area has been kind of slow as I have not seen very may people out. Right now, most of the fishermen are down in Hoopa or up river. Up river, has been seeing some action but not real hot yet.  

Mid-Klamath to Happy Camp: The Klamath River at Weitchpec is flowing 5,367cfs. This is a decrease of 4,640cfs. The Iron Gate/Bogus Creek area is flowing 1,300cfs an increase of 199cfs from the last report.  The river is flowing higher so fishing is a bit hard stating to see some action. We should start to see a drop in the water flow soon. For better information I suggest you call or check out their face book for 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: Trinity Lake is at 163,589AF, a decrease of 2,202AF. The Snow Pack was very low this year so we could see a lowering of the lake again come this summer. Whiskeytown Lake is 92%, an increase of 6% with inflows of 1,653cfs and releases of 1,347cfs.  Shasta Lake is 91% of capacity, an increase of 3% and plus 3ft with inflows of 5,970cfs and releasing 2,371cfs into Keswick. Keswick is 85% of capacity, a decrease of 0% with inflows of 3,318cfs and releases of 3,911cfs into the Sacramento River. Oroville Lake is 88% of capacity, an increase of 0% and plus 0ft, with inflows of 8,226cfs with releases of 7,418cfs into the Feather River. Folsom Lake is 95% of capacity, an increase of 17% and plus 19ft, with inflows of 4,373cfs with releases of 2,417cfs into the American River. Trinity Lake storage is 2,209,274AF an increase of 163,589AF of storage. 

Trinity Lake: The lake is 14ft below the overflow, an increase of 1ft and 91% of capacity, an increase of 1%, with inflows of 1,825cfs and releasing 2,890cfs into Lewiston Lake with 1,346cfs being diverted to Whiskeytown and on to the Keswick Power Plant, and releasing 3,911cfs into the Sacramento River, a decrease of 4684cfs. 

Trinity River flows and conditions: Lewiston Dam is 95% of capacity, an increase 1% and water releases of 1,544cfs into the Trinity River, with water temperatures of 48.5 degrees, as of 0:00pam today May 3, 2026.  Limekiln Gulch is 6.11 at 1,614cfs. Douglas City is 8.15ft with flows of 1,657cfs with water temperatures of 52.4 degrees. Helena is 11.60ft at 1,842cfs with water temps of 54.8 degrees. South Fork of the Trinity near Hyampom is 4.18 at 621cfs. Willow Creek is estimated at 2,463cfs, air is 70 degrees and water at 57.0 degrees, Hoopa is 14.82ft at 3,900cfs with water at 59.1 degrees. 

Klamath River flows and conditions: Flows at Bogas Creek are 2.36ft with flows of 1,300cfs, a decrease of 199cfs. Seiad Valley is 3.19ft at 2,035cfs. Indian Creek is 4.19ft at 190cfs. Happy Camp is estimated to be 2,225cfs, Somes Bar is estimated to be 3,698cfs, and the Salmon River is 3.05ft at 1,092cfs. Orleans is 4.73ft at 4,790cfs, the Klamath River at Terwer Creek is 10.81ft flowing at 9,267cfs with water temps of 60.5 degrees. Flows for the Smith River at Jediah Smith are 6.03ft with flows of 1,023cfs. and flows at Fine Bridge are N/Aft at N/A.

Temperatures for the Valley last week had a high of 78 and a low of 41 degrees. Rain for the week was 0.00in with a water year total to date of 38.06 and 1.45in of snow in Willow Creek. The predicted temperatures for next week are for high of 78 and a low of 42. The weather predicted for the next week is scattered clouds with sunshine with some warmer weather.