There are two rivers open to spring salmon fishing in our area now, both the Entiat and the Icicle. The Icicle would be the stream of choice. There are a few springers being caught on the Entiat, but the Icicle has recently caught on fire. I had a chance to fish the Icicle one early morning recently. I was invited to join Bob Stroup, Dan Davies and Rollie Schmitten on the “barge” at Jan Carpenter’s place. When Rollie and I got there at about 4:45 a.m., Dan already had a fish landed. Rollie got a nice fish to the net at about 5:15 and I got one shortly after. Both Rollie and I missed good strikes and at about 6:30 Bob Stroup got a fish. While all of this was going on the drift boat just below us landed four George Lang and Tony Torkelson had a good morning, too. So, there were a total of eight springers landed in this one hole on the Icicle. Not a bad morning. I filleted and served up some springer that evening, and I have to say it was the best salmon I had tasted in quite some time. As you can see, if I had a choice of where to go springer fishing the Icicle would be first on my list.