Sockeye salmon
A record run of sockeye salmon surging up the Columbia River this summer has delighted folks in the apple-growing region around Brewster. Photos by Jesse Tinsley. Look for Mike Prager's story in Sunday's Spokesman-Review.
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Don Burks, of Yakima, displays part of his catch taken over a couple of days at the Brewster Pool, the stretch of the Columbia River near Brewster, Wash., on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 at the boat launch.
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Don Burks, of Yakima, packs away some of his catch Wednesday, July 21, 2010, at the boat launch in Brewster.
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Casey Whaley, 4, looks at the sockeye salmon caught by her family at the Brewster Pool on Wednesday, July 21, 2010.
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Sockeye salmon ride home in a fisherman's cooler from the the Columbia River near Brewster, Wash., on Wednesday, July 21, 2010. Sockeye salmon are smaller than the Chinook/king salmon but still popular for their flavor.
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Casey Whaley, 4, and her dad Matt Whaley hold up a sockeye salmon caught in the Columbia River near Brewster, Wash., Wednesday, July 21, 2010.
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Salmon fishermen troll along the banks at the Brewster Pool, the stretch of the Columbia River at the mouth of the Okanogan River near Brewster, Wash., Wednesday, July 21, 2010.
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The weekday crowd fishing for sockeye at the mouth of the Okanogan River is generally light, but the number swells to more than 100 on the weekends.
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