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Karen Heim was visiting from Anaconda, Montana and my wife Eileen and I took her steelhead fishing. She landed this hatchery fish while bobber and jig fishing near Bridgeport.
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This Vernita king gave me a good battle, as I hooked it in very fast water just below Priest Rapids Dam. This was one of three that day.
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Here is my fishing buddy Rollie Schmitten with his first steelhead of the season. Fishing was tough but we each got a fish on the opener.
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This is the group that was fishing with Shane Magnuson. We had a hard time holding these up for the photo. We were pretty tired after battling all of these fish!
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Here I am with Shane Magnuson, Upper Columbia Guide Service, with a king taken below the Vernita Bridge. Our party took 13 adults and 3 jacks by 1 o'clock. What a blast!
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There are some bright fish in the fall run at Vernita. Rick Graybill holds up one that took his cured eggs back trolled behind a jet diver.
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The fall salmon below Priest Rapids Dam are big and fight hard. This is one of a limit that my brother Rick put us into on a recent trip.
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Fall kings are bright in the lower Columbia. Bruce Warren, Fishing for Fun Guide Service, shows off an example of what we caught fishing from his boat during Fish Camp. Warren is a guide on several western Washington rivers for salmon and steelhead.
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Here I am with one of the fall kings I caught while fishing below the mouth of the Deschutes River near The Dalles. I was fishing with Walleye Willies Guide Service, although he specializes in walleye down there he knows how to catch kings, too.
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I thought the fall Chinook numbers over Bonneville were good when they hit 30,000 a day, but they hit over 63,000 just the other day.
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