Need info on Trinity river / lake

Hi,

I've just booked vacation house on a Trinity river, near Bucktail Hole, and would appreciate any hints. I have not done freshwater fishing in years - is there any fish there?

Planning to do kayak fishing on the river itself, and sailing / fishing on a Trinity Lake and Whiskeytown.

TIA!
Sebastian

Great smallmouth fishery in Trinity lake
look for the rock piles

Great smallmouth fishery in Trinity lake
look for the rock piles

Thanks! Which part of of the lake - it looks like a large lake.

Also, where to launch? I see several boat ramps, how about beach launches?

Thanks again

The rock piles are about 5 miles north of Trinity Center at the far north part of the lake.  There are several dirt access roads where you can park right on the edge of the lake.  Near Buckeye Creek Road.  It's a magical place. 

The rock piles are about 5 miles north of Trinity Center at the far north part of the lake.  There are several dirt access roads where you can park right on the edge of the lake.  Near Buckeye Creek Road.  It's a magical place.

Thanks!

Clark Springs is a nice day use area on the lake with a boat launch.  Also Lewiston Lake, near were you are staying, comes right off the bottom of Trinity Lake Dam. The water is very cold and trout can be caught year round. 

Clark Springs is a nice day use area on the lake with a boat launch.  Also Lewiston Lake, near were you are staying, comes right off the bottom of Trinity Lake Dam. The water is very cold and trout can be caught year round.

Thanks again, this helps a lot!

What about Whiskeytown? I hear it's open now.

Not sure how the bass fishing is at Whiskeytown.  The trophys are deep this time of year.  Brandy Creek is nice.  Not sure if it survived the fire.

Not sure how the bass fishing is at Whiskeytown.  The trophys are deep this time of year.  Brandy Creek is nice.  Not sure if it survived the fire.

Thanks a lot! One more question (last one - I know I bugged you a lot already!) - I'm trying to figure out regulations, they are somewhat confusing and I have not done freshwater fishing for long time.

Does this sound right to you (for July / August)? I will read more, just want to see if I'm missing anything obvious

- Black Bass - 12" minimum size limit and a 5 fish daily bag limit (Whiskeytown - no size limit)
- Striped Bass - 18" minimum, 2 limit

Salmon / Steelhead / Trout:

Trinity Lake:
* https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/stnf/recarea/?recid=75231
* Bag limit for trout and salmon: 5 per day, 10 in possession.
* barbless not required

Trinity River:
http://www.eregulations.com/california/fishing/supplement/klamath-river-basin-regulations/
* Only artificial flies with barbless hooks may be used above Old Lewiston bridge
* Below bridge:
    * no barbless required
    * 5 Brown Trout
    * 2 hatchery trout or hatchery steelhead**
    * 2 Chinook Salmon

Also Lewiston Lake, near were you are staying, comes right off the bottom of Trinity Lake Dam. The water is very cold and trout can be caught year round.

This is the absolute truth, if not a little bit of an understatement. Such a cold lake. On the positive side, the trout are living in a fridge, and were super clean tasting when I used to go frequently to Lewiston.

Lewiston lake, miss that place. My son slayed em there when he was small.

Just a quick update on this. We had a blast, fantastic area, we will certainly come back. What's really great is that we had 3 distinctly different waters, all within 20 min drive.

1. Trinity Lake.
I think I never swam in >80F before.. I mean even in Red Sea if was 70-80. TI with two HAKA provides excellent platform for 4 (and we probably could take 2 more kids if we had).
Since it also meant we had lots of crap on the boat I did not fish there, couple of folks I talked to reported few "small bass"

2. Lewiston Lake
Gorgeous lake, it would be fun even if there was no fish - and there was fish indeed!
2 easy limits on a first morning, and then couple of educational, but still productive sessions with 7 y.o.
Reports are here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0xQZ41gNzG/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0t6P5Qgqv4/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0rEm8MAw53/

BTW, water was fairly warm, high 50 - low/mid 60.

3. Trinity River
Salmon is jumping! It's still early part of season, there were bunch of folks who fished close to our cabin with no luck.

4. Bonus: hatchery. We saw zillions of baby steelheads and salmon, perhaps some of them will become your or mine dinner

Thanks again to all who shared info!