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Mon., Sept. 23, 2013

Fishing: Chinook, steelhead surge in Snake River

Steelhead counts at Lower Granite Dam as of Sept. 23, 2013. (Fish Passage Center)

FISHING -- Oh, what a difference a little rain and cooler water temperatures have made to erase the thermal barrier that had been keeping steelhead and chinook salmon from progressing up the Snake River.

Graphs show the surge of each species booming up over Lower Granite Dam in the past few days en route to the Snake, Clearwater and Salmon river fisheries in Idaho.

Fish on!

Posted Sept. 23, 2013, 10:09 a.m.

Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.

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