South Fork Trinity help

[WinterrunRon]

Anyone have any experience with it? I've never been there but have always wanted to. I'm in the exploring mood and looking for swing water.

Every river within 5 hours drive is toast. Can't make the Smith or Chetco work, not enough time. But a break in weather on Monday and Tuesday, I was hoping it would come into shape and fishable Tuesday.

Down from 16k cfs to7k cfs in last 3 days.

Any insight?

[NCL]

Ron,

I can't help you with the current river condition on the Trinity but give the guys at The Fly Shop a call and they usually have current conditions. As of about two weeks ago I heard it was fishing well and that doesn't help you today. I can tell you the Sac, at Red Bluff, was running very high and totally blown out, tons of drift wood was coming down. The Sac is running higher than I have seen it in few years, about a 100 yards more and I can fish off my back deck.

[Jeff Fisher]

Hey Ron.....

Don't bother with the SF. At 7000cfs it's completely blown and very big and muddy. It won't fish for a while.

I've never fished it, but I drive over it alot on the way up the highway. When fishable, it looks like a great river. I've often thought about giving it a shot too. I've never inquired about the run it gets though. No idea how many fish or the timing of the SF run. Maybe someone else will chime in with some info.....Should be all wild fish though.

[shawn kempkes]

You are asking questions that shouldnt be asked and most certainly wont be answered on this forum. LOl I would call Herb Burton or Mike at the eureka fly shop.

[WinterrunRon]

You are asking questions that shouldnt be asked and most certainly wont be answered on this forum. LOl I would call Herb Burton or Mike at the eureka fly shop.

What are you talking about "shouldn't be asked and most certainly won't be answered on this forum?"

Asked and answered by my new best friend, Jeff! :DW

[FlyReelFisher]

1) Shawn is right, partly.

2) Herb probably wont tell you anything, and Mike's tale will be full of lore.

3) It's game over, move on.

[yFly10]

Shhhhhhhhhhhhh.....shhhhhhhhhh.....

[WinterrunRon]

Shhhhhhhhhhhhh.....shhhhhhhhhh.....

A member for 6 months, probably has been getting helpful information off this site as a non-member for years, 2 posts and one of them is... Shhhhhhhh?

Wow, thanks for the contribution. :rolleyes: Actually, I have a thought that starts with Sh.

Welcome to the board.

Thanks Jeff and NCL, for your effort to actually be helpful.

[Scott V]

Trying to get information in regards to anything that has to do with steelheads from this board or most any board is going to be next to impossible. Steelheaders as they call themselves are tight lipped.

[yFly10]

Stay positive Winterrunn, I think the others post's are trying to tell you something. Sorry if you are offened by a Shh, it was meant as a :lol:. good job on the background check on me too. I'm a "LURKER" in your crazy online web message world. Thanks for all the insight. Sorry for the negative comment.

[bclem81]

Hey Ron,

The SFT, is blown out. But Ill be hitting that general area for the next few days. LOL.....
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh h.......

[Dustin Revel]

I don't mind people talking about it... they'll just go there and get skunked, and maybe break a leg, or worse yet. it is a very violent landscape with no cell service and rapid river fluctuations.

HAVE FUN EXPLORING!

[WinterrunRon]

Stay positive Winterrunn, I think the others post's are trying to tell you something. Sorry if you are offened by a Shh, it was meant as a :lol:. good job on the background check on me too. I'm a "LURKER" in your crazy online web message world. Thanks for all the insight. Sorry for the negative comment.

Your third post was your best yet!

It wasn't necessarily negative, I just wasn't in the :lol: mood when I read it. But don't be afraid of the light. It won't harm you. Feel free to exchange info and mild bantering on a regular basis.

I was sincere with my "welcome to the board".

Cheers, over 'n out.

[bclem81]

I dont get skunked, I wont alway it to happen.

I know the South Fork well, and am well aware of its natural disasters. And I know better than to go fish that trib right now, or any trib right now for that matter. There are other areas to fish up there that are fishing well right now, and I have some big streamers that need to be swung for some big fish love. To swing is the thing and the tug is the drug, so watch out big fish here I come.

[WinterrunRon]

Trying to get information in regards to anything that has to do with steelheads from this board or most any board is going to be next to impossible. Steelheaders as they call themselves are tight lipped.

Scott, if asking if river conditions are "fishable" is too much to ask from fellow members, I invite those members to mouse down to the "Lodging and Dining for Anglers" Forum where they might be able to feel good about offering up help without feeling threatened.

This forum is really pathetic sometimes. I don't know why it exists. Maybe if it was pulled from the site, it would make some of you self-proclaimed "steelheaders" feel less threatened.

[Ed Wahl]

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.............


Don't mention the Dining forum here.

:p

Ed

[Larry S]

Winterrunron:
Hope you just have a case of "cabin fever." This forum is too valuable to cave in on
posts that you find hard to swallow. I include your contributions, as well. Humor, is where
you find it; and i always look forward to the Kiene reg's that we can depend on.
The fish are the target; both of our love and dedication. Let's remember to
laugh at ourselves when the opportunities arise. Catch and release, right?
Best to you,
Larry S

[shawn kempkes]

Ron

Cinabar Sams in willow creek has great steaks.

[WinterrunRon]

Winterrunron:
Hope you just have a case of "cabin fever." This forum is too valuable to cave in on
posts that you find hard to swallow. I include your contributions, as well. Humor, is where
you find it; and i always look forward to the Kiene reg's that we can depend on.
The fish are the target; both of our love and dedication. Let's remember to
laugh at ourselves when the opportunities arise. Catch and release, right?
Best to you,
Larry S



I hear you, Larry. I appreciate your calming voice. Actually, I have a simple case of being fed up. I just get tired of the same ol "steelheaders" offering nothing but smart*ss remarks professing a "I know something you don't know" attitude every single time they chime in. It just gets old... fast.

Respectfully, one can elect to chew and swallow. I choose to spit them out, along with the bad taste it leaves.

I'm laughing :lol:

Best to you as well,

Ron

[WinterrunRon]

Ron

Cinabar Sams in willow creek has great steaks.

Are you kidding. The food at that place tastes like shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... ;)

Sorry, Ed, couldn't help but pimp your post a weee little bit! :)

[Mike R]

Hey Ron,
After some big rains, some of the smaller, coastal watersheds are the first to clear and come into shape. I don't know if the SFT would be fisheable. It's a helluva long drive from anywhere just to see MUD. But, it's a cool crick. Good luck if ya go.

Mike

[WinterrunRon]

Thanks, Mike.

The only window of opportunity to fish was today or is tomorrow. I know today wouldn't be fishable just about everwhere, except Smith and Chetco.
But I just couldn't get out the door last night to make the trip work with the timing of the weather fronts. I didn't know about the upper SFT since I've never been. Tuesday night through Wednesday night another round of big rain. So no fishing for me likely until I leave on Monday morning.

I've got to get out and cast to a fishable water soon. I'm done trying all my different line/rod combinations; the flooded parking lot is getting old!

[Gene S]

WinterRun

I fish upriver quite a bit... but I can't help you out on the SFT. Just don't really see the big deal in giving some helpful general info to fellow members. However, I have heard rumors there's nutjobs with guns and mountain lions running everywhere on the SFT these days.

[Mike R]

WinterRun

I fish upriver quite a bit... but I can't help you out on the SFT. Just don't really see the big deal in giving some helpful general info to fellow members. However, I have heard rumors there's nutjobs with guns and mountain lions running everywhere on the SFT these days.

Nothing worse than a nutjob with a mountain lion. :-)

[FlyReelFisher]

Helpful General info= get a Streamtime Map



Priceless info: hundreds of dollars spent on gas and many hours of time, figuring out water levels and run timing. That dosebt go online for the general public.

Talking smack dosent make you end up in someones good graces.


And its all pointless because every time I find something and think Im on it, Langenbeck goes and post a photo from where Im at. And it gets a lot busier real quick. Not throwing Gordon under the bus....just saying.