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In this photo you can see that there is ice forming on Rat Lake, near Brewster. This should be an excellent winter ice fishery, and anglers with four wheel drive can drive right up to the launch.
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Pictured here is Jeff Stroup, who is checking steelhead anglers at Wells Dam this winter. Stroup is happy to talk to anglers about regulations and rules, where he is finding fish being caught and how.
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If you take a left on Murphy Road past Chief Joseph Dam and go straight ahead you will find a parking area and this rod holder on the edge of Rufus Woods. This was the best fishing spot when I visited with anglers at Rufus Woods recently.
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Pat Phillips (right) and I are in his office at the new Colville Tribral Hatchery in Bridgeport. Phillips is the hatchery manager and gave Eric Granstrom and I a walking tour of the facility that will bring thousands of salmon to the upper Columbia River.
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I am dragging a nice triploid on to the shore on Rufus Woods Reservoir. Eric Granstrom and I were fishing from one of the camp sites at Brandts Landing and caught two before the snow drove us off the water.
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Rollie Schmitten holds a hatchery steelhead he hooked fishing in the Chelan Falls area. He did a masterful job of running Barb’s Boar and managing his rod at the same time. We also got a big wild fish on this trip, fishing Maxi-Jigs under our bobbers.
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Bob Hall (right) poses with Shane Magnuson, Upper Columbia Guide Service, with a hatchery steelhead taken near Pateros. Fishing was pretty good on this particular day. At one point we had on a triple! Bobbers and Maxi-Jigs was the winning combo and the Rocks was the hot spot.
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Rollie Schmitten poses beside Barb's Boat with a fish we caught while fishing off the mouth of the Entiat River. This hatchery steelhead hit a Maxi-Jib baited with shrimp.
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Rollie Schmitten releases a very large wild steelhead. He hooked it off the mouth of the Entiat River, in the main stem Columbia on a Maxi-Jig.
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Anton McCourtie caught some nice steelhead fishing with Shane Magnuson of Upper Columbia Guide Service, and this surprise--a smallmouth bass!
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