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Hidden Lakes fishing: Better than I can make up
Exceeding expectations is a big phrase in business these days that most fail to accomplish. When that happens…
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Skykomish closure
Collection of chinook brood stock at the Wallace River Hatchery is well behind the goal of 3,200 fish…
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Mariners and macs
A group of Seattle Mariner baseball players fished Lake Chelan with guide Anton Jones of Darrell & Dad’s…
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Island chinook
A smokin’ July fishery for chinook in the San Juan Islands continues, according to Stuart Forst at Holiday…
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Smackdown Salmon Tournament
A new and interesting salmon derby format is due up July 22, 23 and 24, out of Bremerton,…
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State again opens Baker Lake to fishing for sockeye salmon
Baker Lake sockeye opens to fishing for sockeye salmon on Saturday, July 23. This will be the second…
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Fishing for sharks in the Northwest
I’ve fished around sharks before in Belize and in the Bahamas, but never in the Northwest. That said,…
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Humpy numbers growing in Seiku
Anglers have been catching a lot of pink salmon at Seiku, several weeks sooner they usual. While that’s…
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Coastal salmon slows
The latest creel checks at coastal ports showed slow fishing generally, north to south. Best results came on…
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Strait chinook
An excellent July 1 salmon opener in the Port Angeles area — checks showed about a fish and…
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A lack of photos doesn’t mean it’s a fish story
After a recent fishing trip in Canada, I put some photos of wildflowers and insects on Facebook. A…
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Bet on the Bar for kings this Saturday
Marine areas 9 and 10 open Saturday morning for the popular hatchery chinook summer season, and things are…
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The world’s largest fly rod
I came across this photo of the world’s largest fly rod the other day in my files and…
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The Fonz: Not too cool to fly fish
I recently read Henry Winkler’s new book and my first thought upon reading the title was that he…
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Corbett Lake
I’d put some photos of Canadian wildflowers and Canadian bugs on my Facebook page and a friend from…
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Where’s Mike’s fish?
I’ve lost fish before, but none have been seen so soon and so frequently by so many people…
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Good duck year
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service preliminary rreport on breeding ducks and habitat for 2011 is out, indicating…
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New WA wolf pack
Washington’s fourth documented wolf pack has been confirmed, and one of its members radio-collared, in the Cle Elum…
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Loons 1, eagle 0
One of the things I like best about fly fishing is it takes me to some of the…
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Oh, Canada
I just returned from two, back-to-back road trips in British Columbia, having spent a lot of hours in…