Too clear and big for the Klick. Don't remember any spots on Rogue or Ump like this. With pine beetle and road and like this, l'll guess Thompson or Frazier.

Looks like the Nicola, a trib of the Thompson.

Chetco or Sixes?

Hankster--
Good eye, it is the Trinity!
We just drove from Redding to Crescent City and that river was flat beautiful. Every business along 299 had Steelhead in their name so it shows what their focus is.
Never fished it but now I will make it a destination next trip so I can drift this one!
Anyone fished it and how was it?

Thats Trinity between Pigeon point and Big flat. I have family from
Willow creek. The river in the upper stretches above where you took that pic is mobbed by flyfisherman in the fall fishing Indicators out of the boat.

At first glance I wanna say it looks like the Rogue. Somewhere just above Grave Creek.

But after looking at the photo again, I'm starting to doubt myself.

I was gonna say the smith.Wrong.Good luck,
SZ

Hank, post that picture of the Trinity that you sent me a few years ago, if you still have it.

I was gonna say the same thing having just driven down that way in April. . .. ..Beautiful section of country .. . .too bad it is still in CA . . ..

I'll be making that drive from Redding to Eureka in a couple of weeks.

Love that part of the state.

The woman wants to move down that way (the Willits area not SF), I just don't know that we can do it with the way the economy/job marked is . . .. not to mention some of the retarded gun laws CA has. . ..

Pretty country, awesome looking rivers, hard to throw a rock without hitting a dirty hippie though ( I tried when I was there last) .. .

I was gonna guess The Eel.

I won't be down until the Labor day holiday Hank. Girlfriend and I are doing the houseboat thing on lake Shasta, then driving back to Napa via Hwy 101 and 1 with a night with either Garberville or Ft. Bragg.

Good luck on your salmon trip. I hear the Cali north coast is the place to be this summer.

I'm in too late to be the first to get it right - Just made that drive from the Coast over to Redding last fall. My brake pads are still warped from that GD road. Really gives your rig a work out.

That's the one, beautiful!

I spent a lot of time as a kid camping at Jedediah Smith SP.
The Smith River, Crescent City and the surrounding area are top notch in my book.
Lots of good memories. I need to get down there again.

IMHO the portion of the Smith that runs through the redwoods is one of the prettiest on earth.

Hankster, have you ever put in about gasque and float down to the park, or just to the forks. There has to be enough water to make the gorge passable, But that is one nice drift, Patricks creek to just below gasqu can be a nice float with the right water, And very productive. I grew up fishing and floating it in the mid 70's to about 84. caught some nice fish in that river, Still go down for an anaul fishing trip with my father on the Smith and Chetco yearly

I will tell you, that is one pretty drive and river. That road is hard on the brake pads!
Now that I am all the way up the Oregon coast (many times in my younger days) I am going to plan a trip to the Trinity and then work my way up the coast and hit many rivers this fall along the Oregon coast.
I wish I had made time to stop on the Rogue as they are doing some good fishing and catching there right now!