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• Steelhead run better, but still not stellar

  April 11, 2013 in Outdoors, Sports on Page K2 Steelhead anglers in the Washington-Idaho regions of the Snake River can expect decent fishing this season, although the early forecasts are a mixed bag. Fisheries managers are predicting a return …

• New steelheading book a matter of facts

  November 15, 2012 in Outdoors, Sports on Page B1 A wise angler will shut up and listen to anyone with 30 years of steelhead fishing experience. In the case of Dan Magers, steelheaders should go further, forking over $25 … 1

• Landers: new steelheading book a matter of facts

  November 14, 2012 in Sports A wise angler will shut up and listen to anyone with 30 years of steelhead fishing experience.

• Snake steelhead derby extends borders, includes holiday

  November 11, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C14 By popular demand, the annual Kendall Subaru Clearwater Snake Steelhead Derby will be held Saturday through Nov. 24 to allow anglers to take advantage of a national holiday – Thanksgiving. …

• Field reports: Steelheading to open on Upper Columbia

  October 14, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C11 FISHING – Fishing for hatchery steelhead will open Tuesday on the mainstem upper Columbia, Wenatchee, Icicle, Entiat, Methow and Okanogan rivers, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Friday. …

• Warm water stalls Snake steelhead

  August 5, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C11 Warm water temperatures in the lower Snake River have put the brakes on the summer steelhead run. “The fish aren’t entering the Snake River,” said Alan Byrne, a fisheries biologist …

• Steelhead entering Idaho

  July 24, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C9 Steelhead are making their way up the Snake River, a bit later than last year. A few anglers have started to fish for the sea-run trout in Idaho’s Clearwater River, …

• Landers: Single salmonfly offers nostalgic fishing dream

  June 23, 2011 in Outdoors, Sports on Page B1 He couldn’t have been more excited if a whopper brown trout had just swirled on his Stimulator. Spokesman-Review colleague Jim Kershner stormed into the office the other day gushing about … 1

• 1,000 steelhead dead at Dworshak

  November 5, 2010 in Outdoors Dworshak Dam workers rallied to save 511 steelhead they discovered trapped by a maintenance project, but twice that many fish perished

• Added nutrients boost fish in Dworshak Reservoir

  May 30, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C9 About 15 yeas ago, Dennis Harper became an advocate of fertilizing Dworshak Reservoir waters to grow more fish. Then the Orofino chiropractor put his money where his mouth was. “I … 1

• Spring chinook a hit in Idaho

  May 30, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C10 Even the uniformed sensed something was going on last weekend as they drove Highway 12 from Lewiston to Orofino along the Clearwater River. Boat trailers were at every launch area …

• Three hurt in wildlife study copter crash

  January 9, 2010 in City on Page B2 Two Idaho state biologists and a private pilot were injured Friday when the helicopter they were in crashed in a remote forested area in the vicinity of the Clearwater River …

• Rig for a record run

  October 25, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C14 Of all the steelhead fishing techniques, none is quite so simple as the cast-swing-step rhythm of fishing a fly. The fish-catching part isn’t always so easy, but the method is …

• Easy does it, steelheader says

  October 25, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C14 Steelhead fishing is best when it’s simple, says Orofino, Idaho-area fishing guide Kyle Jones. Like a growing number of anglers, Jones, who also works at Camp, Cabin and Home in …

• GAME ON!

  October 4, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C14 This is shaping up to be a hallmark year for steelheaders, with the return of sea-run trout at near-record levels. Through Tuesday, 127,413 steelhead were counted at Lower Granite Dam, …