When West Coast steelhead fly fisherman talk about steelhead fishing and steelhead rivers, their next breath is about the Trinity River…why is that…Because it’s that good!!!

The Trinity River from the Steelhead and Salmon fish hatchery at the base of Lewiston Dam flows west to the confluence on the Klamath River and offers some of the best steelhead fishing in the Pacific Northwest. Steelhead start showing up in the lower river late July early August and hang out in the lower Trinity until we start to get some rain in September at that point the fish start their migration up river. We start fishing for these chrome bright “silver bullets” on the lower river in August and we follow the run up river.

Using traditional steelhead techniques swinging wet flies, skating dries or dead drifting nymphs with single handed, switch and spey rods. The Trinity River is the ideal size river for using a Switch rod or light full Spey rod. The last few seasons there has been a tremendous interest in anglers wanting to learn how to Spey fish and getting away from indicator fishing. The Riverbend Adventures guides have the patience and knowledge to get you started in a fun new way to fly fish.

There are many words and expressions to describe “the grab” of a steelhead take and the acrobatics and screaming runs that immediately follow “the grab”… For those of you that have experienced this…you know!! For those who have not yet had the experience…HANG ON!!!

All fishing is primarily wade fishing and we fish from a drift boat or raft on runs to deep to wade, also we do walk-in trips.

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