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Chad Taffar caught this spring salmon not 20 yards below the launch on the Icicle River. He was fishing with Shane Magnuson, Upper Columbia Guide Services.
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Shane Magnuson, Upper Columbia Guide Services, hoists a nice spring salmon on the Icicle River. The fish smacked an M-2 Flatfish, pulled behind a diver.
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A member of the Wenatchee Sportsmen's Association helps a youngster catch a trout at the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery during the annual Kids Fish-In Day.
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When we have our limits of rainbow we switch to bass fishing on Curlew Lake. The lake is loaded with largemouth like this one, but I have caught them to 4 pounds.
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You can catch rainbows like this one all day long at Curlew Lake, near Republic. Rainbow here are fattened on mysis shrimp and eat like kokanee!
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Rollie Schmitten of Lake Wenatchee shows off a nice triploid taken near the lower pens on Rufus Woods. Fishing wasn't great, but the Colville Tribe continues to plant the reservoir with fresh triploids every month.
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This was one big family of Canadian Geese that strolled by us while we were fishing at Curlew Lake recently. We counted 15 goslings!
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Here I am on the maiden voyage of my new Lund 1800 Sport Angler, from Valley Marine in Yakima. It is powered by a Mercury 150 Verado, 9.9 kicker, and the new Minn Kota I-Pilot on the bow. This is my third Lund from Valley Marine and I can't say enough about how much I appreciate the trouble free experience of being on the water, and the help from the folks at Valley Marine for keeping me on the water.
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Hard at work are members of the Icicle Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited at the acclimation pond on Blackbird Island. This group did the really hard work of getting the pond permitted and ready to receive steelhead for smolting, and the second crop is now leaving the pond and headed down the Columbia.
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Here's a fat Fish Lake rainbow with a High Lakes Special in its jaw. My wife Eileen and I caught eight in well under an hour using this lure, in under an hour!
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