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Steelhead run lagging up Columbia, Snake

Steelhead counts over Bonneville Dam as of June 22, 2011, (Idaho Fish and Game Department)
Steelhead counts over Bonneville Dam as of June 22, 2011, (Idaho Fish and Game Department)

STEELHEAD FISHING -- The steelhead are running, but very slowly compared with last year.  

Maybe the fish are waiting for this spring's enormous flows to subside a bit.

Stay tuned.



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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