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Smoking isn’t a vice when it comes to fish

Trout -- actually, hatchery-raised steelhead released into Rock Lake -- are brined and ready to go into the smoker. (Rich Landers / The Spokesman-Review)
Trout -- actually, hatchery-raised steelhead released into Rock Lake -- are brined and ready to go into the smoker. (Rich Landers / The Spokesman-Review)

FISHING -- I'm a devout non-smoker, but after a day of fishing for hatchery-raised steelhead at Rock Lake (Whitman County) I had to make an exception.

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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