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I was invited by Grant County PUD on a tour of the fish passage methods at Wanapum and Priest Rapids dams. Here I am in front to the new down stream juvenile passage gates at Priest Rapids. They just opened on April 1st.
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Audry Kelley, with the help of Shane, shows off the king she got on the opening day of salmon season at Chelan Falls. She was asleep in the bow when the fish hit!
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Kyle Kelley puts a lot of spring salmon in his drift boat on the Icicle, and he switched to summer-run kings on the opening day of salmon season at Chelan Falls.
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Angela Kelley got the first fish into the boat on opening day of salmon season. We were all pleased to see that it was a hatchery fish and could go into the cooler.
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This big, bright king hit a mini Super Bait Plug Cut on the opening day of salmon season. Chelan Falls was the location. I was fishing with Shane Magnuson of Upper Columbia Guide Services.
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Rollie Schmitten caught several big cutthroat on our float on the Cle Elum River. You don't big numbers of trout on the Cle Elum, but what you get are big!
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The Cle Elum River produces some big rainbow and cutthroat, and I got this one floating with Johnny Boitano of the Troutwater Fly Shop in Ellensburg. It's a beautiful river to float.
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Marcos, who is in sales at Bob Feil Boats and Motors, holds up a rainbow we caught near the Monument on Lake Chelan. I missed the kokanee bite, but it was a great day to be on the lake.
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This is the Colville Tribal Longhouse on the road to Omak Lake. I was there for the First Fish Ceremony and presentations on the new sockeye hatchery in B.C. and and update on the Bridgeport hatchery.
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This was our shore lunch on our snorkeling trip on barrier reef in Belize. The feast included snapper, barracuda and lobster. We all ate way too much!
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