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Steelhead bonus attraction at Sprague, Rock lakes

Marcie Smith holds stocked steelhead she caught while fishing with family at the public access to Rock Lake in Whitman County. (Rich Landers / The Spokesman-Review)
Marcie Smith holds stocked steelhead she caught while fishing with family at the public access to Rock Lake in Whitman County. (Rich Landers / The Spokesman-Review)

Marcie Smith holds a stocked steelhead she caught while fishing with family at the public access to Rock Lake in Whitman County. A one-time plant of 255,000 hatchery steelhead in June 2015 has provided off-the-charts fishing success this year. Same goes for Sprague Lake, which received a one-time bonus of 370,000 young steelhead in 2014. They were running a fat 16 inches by April 2015 and survivors were running up to 23 inches going into last winter.