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 THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2008 3:09 pm |
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Lure of salmon: Possession Bar fishery open It didn't quite match Ringling Brothers last summer, but it was successful enough, and enough people have been looking forward to it this year, that the adult hatchery chinook fishery on Possession Bar will almost certainly attract boats and... [More] Summer sockeye on the move Hopes are still high for a Lake Wenatchee sockeye season this summer, as near-record numbers of the small salmon push their way up the Columbia River. It's a week or so too early to make the call on a recreational fishery, but the run size was... [More] Get out the crab pots this weekend If one word could describe fishing opportunity for the long weekend here, it would probably be "diversity". [More] 5-foot, 55-pound sturgeon wins derby It took a 5-foot fish to win the firefighters' benefit sturgeon derby over the weekend, which, since 60 inches is the upper end of the state's slot limit for the species, was pretty much what everyone expected. The suspense came in who caught one... [More] Two salmon openers start slowly A couple of popular salmon openers -- the Tulalip bubble for chinook, and the Baker River for sockeye -- took place over the weekend, but neither put a whole bunch of fish on the table. That was expected in the bubble, which is a reasonably... [More] Saturday coastal salmon openers weak, but future bright Two major fishing season openers on Saturday didn't go as well as they could have, perhaps, but the outlook over the next few weeks for chinook off the coast and for chinook and summer steelhead in certain area rivers seems positive. [More] 180-pound halibut wins derby When you catch a fish so big it has to be weighed with a fork lift, you know you've done a day's work. And the record halibut which took first place in the big Port Angeles derby over the long weekend met that criterion with weight to spare. [More] There's nothing like standing butt deep in the ocean surf and fishing for p... As a teenager in the 1950s, I subscribed to all three of the major outdoor magazines -- Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, and Sports Afield -- and devoured their contents avidly every month. The publications of that period apparently refused to believe... [More] |
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