Happy MOTHERS DAY to all of you lady fishers out there and I hope you got that new fishing rod or reel you were looking for. If not I hope you all had a good Mothers Day Brunch. I have been out of the area the last couple of days traveling. The river flows have changed and are at 4,500cfs and will start back down May 16^th. May 18 the Trinity Flows will be 4,160cfs, May 21, flows will be 3,830cfs and for Memorial Day Weekend they will be 3,500cfs to 3,420cfs, so much for spring salmon fishing on the Lower Trinity for the Holiday Weekend. You must remember the Trinity will still be two salmon per day with four in possession until Sept 1^st, and then the new regulations will kick in. There should be some Springer’s moving up into the upper sections of the river by now but the Trinity is closed to the take of spring Chinook from the mouth of the South Fork down to the Klamath until Sept. 1^st. I expect that fishing for Spring Chinook should be good some time about the middle of June as that is when the flows will be down to a fishable condition for one to fish from the banks and maybe even drift boats in some of the upper sections. I am really looking forward to hooking a few of those delicious spring salmon soon.
Be sure that you make early reservations for your fishing this year because if you wait to long you just may be out of luck. I know I have already received inquiries about early dates for salmon fishing.

 Fishing: The Trinity River is on its way down now and when I was checking it out this morning the river was a pretty green with just a tent of mud in it. For water flows I recommend you go to the TRRP website and check water flows. The BOR has been posting new water flow changes about every tow weeks and TRRP posts them for all to read. With the high water there WILL be some places one can fish but you will have to pick them carefully and maybe re-spool your reel with some heavier main line. You might also want to pick up some heavier leader for the early fishing. For the time being it is going to be bank fishing only. I look for the upper part of the river to be fishable some time around the middle to late June. The lower part of the river could be fishable some time around the 4^th of July or a little later.

Trinity River flows and conditions:
Trinity Lake is 14ft (0.8ft increase) below the over flow and at 92% of capacity (1% increase) at 1:00pm to day. Inflow to the lake is 4,000cfs and dam releases are 4,360cfs to Lewiston Lake with 000cfs going to Whiskeytown Lake and the Sacramento River.
Trinity River: Lewiston Dam releases are 4,360cfs, water temps 47, air is 80 degrees. Limekiln Gulch is 8ft at 4,330cfs. Douglas City is 10ft at 4,780cfs, water temps 49, air is 80. Junction City is 5.8ft at 4,550cfs. Helena is 15ft at 5,060fs and water at 50. Cedar Flat is 9.2ft at 5,800cfs. Willow Creek is estimated at 6,666cfs, air 82, and water 00. Hoopa is 17.7ft at 8,400cfs, water temps 57 degrees. Mouth of the Trinity at the Klamath is 27Kcfs
Klamath: Iron Gate Dam releases are 3,175cfs. Seiad Valley is 6.1ft at 5,580cfs. Happy Camp estimated at 6,348cfs. Somes Bar estimated at 15Kcfs. Orleans is 18.6ft at 19.2Kcfs. Klamath at 101 is 15.1ft at 24.4K, water temps of 57.8 degrees.
Temperatures in the valley last week were 90/41 degrees with 0 inches of rain, total to date 70.3 inches. The weather next week expected to be 76/43 degrees. Monday, partly cloudy, Tuesday, sunny, Wednesday mostly sunny, Thursday, partly cloudy, Friday, sunny, Saturday & Sunday, partly cloudy, Monday, partly cloudy.