Monday August 31, 2026
Active NorCal —
The hottest salmon fishing spot on the North Coast is about to go quiet.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced that the spit fishery at the mouth of the Klamath River closes to angling at 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, September 2, and it will stay closed for the rest of the 2026 season.
The closure is actually good news in disguise. CDFW projects that anglers fishing the sand spit below the Highway 101 bridge near the town of Klamath will have caught 15 percent of the entire Klamath River Basin recreational allocation of adult fall run Chinook by that deadline. Hitting that quota automatically triggers the spit closure under this year’s regulations.
The spit, defined as the water within 100 yards of the channel cutting through the sand at the river mouth, is one of the most productive stretches on the river when fall Chinook stack up in the estuary.