New terms required to describe sockeye fishing this good

FISHING — The sockeye and summer chinook fishing in the Brewster area of the Columbia River has been excellent. Depending on whether the river temperatures change, excellent could turn into phenomenal.

Or, as Washington Fish and Wildlife Department regional fisheries manager Jeff Korth described it after seeing the opening day results,

“It’s going to be a blood bath.”

See Korth’s explanation nestled in this story that ran in Sunday Outdoors.