Shasta River weir jumps to 2,020 Chinook through Sept. 24

The Shasta River counting station has moved from a trickle to the front of the Klamath tributary run. Siskiyou News’ Sept. 25 recap of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Sept. 25 in-season update puts net upstream passage at 2,020 adult Chinook through Sept. 24. A week earlier the same weir stood at 629. Through Sept. 10 it had 35.

Coho are still zero anywhere in the system, which the update treats as normal for late September. Steelhead at the Shasta weir are 13 adults over 16 inches. Bogus Creek, the Scott River, and Shovel Creek are still at zero for every species. Jenny Creek is not installed yet; CDFW says that station goes in before Oct. 1.

For this date the Shasta count is ahead of the 25-year mean and median, and still inside the historical range. It is behind 2025, which stood at 2,630 through Sept. 25. The long-term Shasta season total has run from a few hundred fish to nearly 30,000, with a median around 6,000. These are preliminary passage counts, not final escapement. The stations do not cover mainstem Klamath spawning or returns above the state line.

This is a The Gillnet news desk summary, not a reprint.

Source: Siskiyou News — 2026 Fall Salmon Run Update, Klamath River Basin (Sept. 25, 2026).