Jeff Goodwin Fishing Guide Service

Jeff Goodwin Fishing Guide Service runs out of Redding and covers the Trinity River as one of several northern California fisheries in its rotation. The Trinity work is handled by Captain Justin Thompson, who fishes from a 19 foot drift boat and takes up to three anglers on conventional gear trips. The site describes a steelhead season running from July through February with both hatchery and wild fish in the river, and a king salmon season that opens in July and holds into early fall, concentrated between Lewiston Dam and Junction City. Rainbow trout and sea run brown trout are also listed among the fish the guides encounter there. The operation is veteran owned, its captains are USCG licensed, and Trinity dates are booked by phone through Jaynie Goodwin. Trips across the company’s range are full day outings of roughly seven to eight hours with equipment, bait and fish processing included, and the Trinity float is sold the same way rather than at a rate posted online.