California's Trinity River Steelhead

California’s Trinity is a river that at once demonstrates the dangers of dewatering and shows that with proper attention, a wild steelhead river can maintain its magic for generations of anglers. “‘There aren’t many rivers that I can step into and say it’s every bit as good as it was when I first fished it, and probably better,’ [guide Herb] Burton says, even though he has reasons not to want to say this. The Trinity, which can be as narrow as a trout stream in places, has been discovered by the big river guides from Alaska and Canada.” Sam Whiting offers an excellent article on the Trinity in the San Francisco Chronicle.