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• Fishermen can’t reach abundant Spirit Lake kokanee

  February 26, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C12 Ice anglers in North Idaho should have been cleaning up on the record number of mature kokanee in Spirit Lake this winter – except they couldn’t get to the fish. …

• Landers: Bald eagles, kokanee show up in big numbers

  December 1, 2011 in Sports on Page B1 Bald eagles and kokanee in North Idaho are bucking the worldwide trend of deficits and declines. Kokanee, those delicious land-locked sockeyes, are spawning in numbers higher than we’ve seen in …

• Landers: Bald eagles, kokanee experience boom time

  November 30, 2011 in Sports, Outdoors Bald eagles and kokanee in North Idaho are bucking the worldwide trend of deficits and declines. 1

• Eagle numbers down sharply on Lake Cd’A

  November 23, 2011 in Outdoors The annual gathering of bald eagles that feast on spawning kokanee at Lake Coeur d’Alene is getting off to a slow start.

• Kokanee migration begins on Colville National Forest

  November 11, 2011 in News Thousands of kokanee salmon are running up Harvey Creek, a tributary of Sullivan Lake on the Colville National Forest. 2

• Plan allows more lake fluctuation

  November 5, 2011 in Idaho on Page A7 Lake Pend Oreille’s water levels will fluctuate by as much as 5 feet this winter, allowing federal agencies more flexibility in managing electricity generation throughout the Columbia River hydropower system. …

• Huge rainbow trout pigging out in Clearwater’s North Fork

  October 30, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C12 There are some huge fish lurking in the North Fork Clearwater River below Dworshak Dam, and they aren’t steelhead or salmon. A few anglers have hooked into absurdly fat rainbow … 1

• Kokanee are back at CDA

  April 14, 2011 in Sports on Page K10 Take it from the record number of bald eagles that gathered to feast on spawning salmon this winter: Kokanee have made a comeback at Lake Coeur d’Alene. The turn-around has …

• 2010 was the year of the lunker for anglers

  January 2, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C12 Big runs of salmon and steelhead moved upstream to delight Inland Northwest anglers again in 2010, but other big fish stories stood out, including a world-record kokanee, record surges of …

• Bounty draws eagles

  December 11, 2010 in Idaho on Page B1 It’s 7 a.m., and six bald eagles are circling over Wolf Lodge Bay. In the weak winter light, the snowy landscape has the starkness of a black-and-white photograph. The eagles …

• IDFG to explain Dworshak nutrient program

  June 29, 2010 in Outdoors A possible lawsuit is prompting Idaho Fish and Game Department biologists and the U .S. Army Corps of Engineers to justify a nutrient enhancement effort in Dworshak Reservoir even though …

• Wallowa kokanee no shrimp

  June 17, 2010 in Outdoors on Page B1 North Idaho anglers have to be scratching their heads over the unofficial world-record 9.67-pound kokanee caught in northeastern Oregon’s Wallowa Lake on Sunday. This fish, the latest in a series … 2

• Kokanee in Wallowa Lake thrive

  June 16, 2010 in Sports North Idaho anglers have to be scratching their heads over the unofficial world-record 9.67-pound kokanee caught in northeastern Oregon’s Wallowa Lake on Sunday. This fish, the latest in a series …

• Clearwater REVIVAL

  May 30, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C10 Dworshak Reservoir is the best thing that never quite lived up to its promise to Clearwater County, Idaho. But a weekly dab of fertilizer is growing more incentive for anglers …

• Dworshak new hot spot

  April 15, 2010 in Sports on Page K2 Dworshak Reservoir is emerging as a top destination for kokanee anglers this year. More than a million fish are in the current two-year-old year class targeted by anglers – that’s …

• Wallowa Lake produces record kokanee

  April 5, 2010 in Outdoors A lake near enterprise is producing kokanee — land-locked sockeye salmon — big enough to be prizes even for saltwater fishermen. 2

• Lake Pend Oreille levels to increase

  April 1, 2010 in Outdoors, Idaho on Page A6 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin refilling Lake Pend Oreille to summer levels beginning today.

• Researchers track Roosevelt’s kokanee, sturgeon and walleyes

  February 28, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C12 Anglers aren’t the only people stalking fish in Lake Roosevelt. Researchers have several projects under way in the 130-mile-long reservoir using radio telemetry to plot movements of kokanee, walleye and …

• Unwanted trout

    February 12, 2010 in City, Idaho on Page A1 HOPE, Idaho – Working shoulder-to-shoulder aboard a commercial gillnetter, Paul Saunders and his crew plucked fish from a 900-foot net, deftly untangling snared gills and thrashing tails from the mesh. … 2

• Lake could fluctuate by 5 feet

  December 8, 2009 in Idaho on Page A6 Lake Pend Oreille’s water levels could fluctuate by up to 5 feet this winter. The change would allow Albeni Falls Dam to produce more electricity, but it also is likely …

• Lake Pend Oreille winter levels could fluctuate

  December 7, 2009 in Idaho Lake Pend Oreille’s water levels could fluctuate by up to five feet this winter. The change would allow Albeni Falls Dam to produce more electricity, but it also is likely …

• Out & About

  September 20, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C12 Purple mountains majesty prevails OUTPICK – Honestly, it made us sad last week to see the bounty of huckleberries going unpicked along good hiking trails north of Lake Pend Oreille …

• Rainbow trout carry pot of gold

  June 9, 2009 in City on Page A5 Some lucky angler could pull a rainbow trout worth $1,000 out of Lake Pend Oreille this summer. Idaho Department of Fish and Game recently implanted micro-tags into the heads of …

• Bounty out for Lake Pend Oreille rainbow trout

  June 8, 2009 in City, Idaho Some lucky angler could pull a rainbow trout worth $1,000 out of Lake Pend Oreille this summer. Idaho Department of Fish and Game recently implanted micro-tags into the heads of … 2

• Check out these kokanee hot spots

  April 12, 2009 in Outdoors on Page K4 Kokanee are king to many anglers, and the Inland Northwest still has a few hot spots to catch them. Lake Coeur d’Alene should provide good fishing this year coming off …

• Mackinaw harvest gives kokanee shot at comeback

  January 20, 2009 in Idaho on Page A1 At the Bonner County Food Bank, director Alice Wallace sets no limits on mackinaw. During spring and late summer, needy families help themselves to packages of fish from a freezer …

• Lakebed will be ready just in time for spawning

  October 27, 2007 in Idaho on Page A1 BAYVIEW, Idaho – Just in the nick of time, Lake Pend Oreille’s kokanee salmon should again have a clean bed of gravel for fall egg-laying. The gravel beds and tens …

• Kokanee spawning bed plan in works

  August 2, 2007 in Idaho on Page B1 Silt smothering a kokanee salmon spawning bed on Lake Pend Oreille will be vacuumed in coming weeks in hopes of restoring the gravelly site before any egg-laden fish return this …