Oldtimers say it's unbelievable. There are still salmon and steelhead moving through the Klamath River. In years past the lower river is done by October.

Guide Rich Mossholder reports that he heard that two people hooked 25 fish on Monday.

”From Johnson's Bar down to Klamath Glen and upriver to Hornbrook they are catching adult salmon, jacks and steelhead that are still fresh,” he said. “Red roe and puffballs are being used extensively.”

Rich recommends that you check regulations before fishing, however.

A few salmon are being landed at the mouth of the Smith River on Kastmasters and Little Cleos. However, the Smith is among those rivers closed because of low flows. The number to call for other closures is 442-4502. Flows are evaluated every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Anglers are also enjoying some success at the mouth of the Chetco River. There are quite a few salmon in the 30-pound range, according to Rich.

Willow Creek guide Ed Duggan notes that while fishing the Del Loma run on the Trinity River “I saw a lot of Chinook salmon 'sore tails' and even more that were staging for spawning in the river. While fishing the carcass crew from the DFG (Department of Fish and Game) came by and said that upriver they had counted plenty of Redds and lots of carcasses.

”This is good news but for three years down the lane. Up-river has seen plenty of fly fishers on the water and I have more around the Willow Creek area also. I also ran across a fly fisherman from up Montana-Idaho way that was trying out our river. He said that he had been doing well with any flies that had peacock hurl in them. The hardware fishers have been doing fairly well in all sections of the river.”

The Willow Creek weir counts are showing about a 22 percent drop in Chinook counts with 1,060 for a total to this date, 182 coho salmon of this date. That is three times less than last year at this time.

The last three weeks the weir has seen a large increase of steelhead (1,700) going through. The count is about 70 percent higher than last year to date. The good news is that more than 50 percent of the adults that are going through Willow Creek weir are hatchery steelhead and that many of the adults are bigger than last year's run with some nice trophy steelies among them.

The Trinity River Hatchery spring Chinook counts are down from last year but the jack count is double or triple or a little more for this year. That could indicate that we could have a good year next year with somewhat of a liberal season for '07.

The German Brown counts are also down this year at the TRH buy there are plenty of them in the river from the hatchery down to Junction City. There is a large portion of them this year that are under 16 inches, but I do know there is a large portion of them this year that are under 16 inches but I do know that there have been landed in the 3- to 5-pound range.

Ed also pointed out that the mid-Klamath from Weitchpec to Orleans has seen an increase of adults going up-river with a few in the 10-pound range being landed. “Up around Somes Bar, Doug Cole of Marble Mountain Resort, said fishing has been tough but is improving now that some half pounders have started to show up. Doug has been getting four or five adults per trip and seeing some trophy steelies in the 10- to 12-pound ranges go by while fishing for them. Steelhead fishing is starting to really look good over there on the Mid-Klamath.”

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