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• 2011: Fish flourish in area waters

  January 1, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C9 Fish generally thrived in an abundance of water flooding the region in 2011. Although anglers lost a full month of the fishing season to high water on rivers such as …

• Landers: Steelhead keep fishermen guessing

  November 10, 2011 in Sports, Outdoors on Page B1 Steelhead anglers are scratching their heads along the Snake River system. The fish run is slightly below average this year.

• Steelheaders along Snake must play guessing game

  November 9, 2011 in Sports Steelhead anglers are scratching their heads along the Snake River system.

• Hunting and fishing

  November 4, 2011 in Outdoors on Page B6 Fly fishing With the cooling water, dry fly fishing is just about over on Idaho and Montana rivers.

• Out & About: Tickets to upcoming Reel Rock Film Festival free

  October 9, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C14 OUTDEAL – Some of the year’s top climbing short films are coming to Spokane in a film tour – Reel Rock VI – Oct. 20, starting at 7 p.m. at …

• 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, …

• Anglers question Yakama Tribe fishing platforms at Drano Lake

  July 3, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C10 COOK, Wash. — Tribal fishermen have built about a dozen platforms off the Columbia River along Drano Lake, a move likely to spark conflict with long-standing non-Indian salmon and steelhead … 1

• Pike prompt three surveys on PDO River

  April 17, 2011 in Outdoors on Page C9 Three northern pike studies that involve gillnetting fish are scheduled this spring on the Pend Oreille River by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Kalispel Tribe. The …

• Court halts sea lion killing at Columbia River dam

  November 23, 2010 in Region Sea lions that have faced death by lethal injection for making banquets of endangered fish in the Columbia River won a reprieve today when a federal appeals court told Oregon … 4

• Spokane angler second in steelhead derby

  November 15, 2010 in Outdoors More than 550 anglers competed to catch the biggest steelhead and the most steelhead in the annual Clearwater-Snake Steelhead Derby.

• 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

• Steelhead rescued at Dworshak Dam

  November 3, 2010 in Outdoors All hands at Dworshak Dam called in to rescue steelhead trapped by a maintenance project.

• Anglers lose crowds, find bountiful runs on Salmon River

    October 24, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C14 When the season comes to tap the annual steelhead runs, Riggins, Idaho, might be upstaged by Lewiston, but it’s not necessarily outperformed. The big run of steelhead that boomed earlier … 1

• Fish runs rebounding, but still threatened

  September 24, 2010 in Outdoors, Idaho, Region A state fisheries biologist says Snake River salmon and steelhead runs have rebounded but haven’t yet reached numbers where they can be considered out of danger.

• Idaho hatchery officials kill thousands of steelhead

  September 8, 2010 in Idaho Federal fish managers say they opted to kill tens of thousands of juvenile steelhead after finding a potentially deadly virus in two holding ponds at the Dworshak National Fish Hatchery.

• U.S. may limit fish hatcheries on Columbia

  August 8, 2010 in City on Page B2 PORTLAND – Federal biologists will recommend four options for dealing with salmon hatchery programs that feed into the Columbia River Basin, the toughest of which would pull federal dollars from …

• Suit seeks more water for salmon

  June 4, 2010 in City, Idaho on Page A8 Conservation and fishermen’s groups are suing the Washington State Department of Ecology to allow more water over dams along the Columbia and Snake rivers to protect salmon and steelhead.

• Leaping to conclusions

  April 11, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C10 Wild steelhead are making the last push in their months-long journey that culminates with spawning in mountain creeks. But for those that began life in Idaho’s upper Selway River, the …

• Steelhead surge into Grand Ronde River

  February 5, 2010 in Sports, Outdoors Never mind what the calendar says, steelhead seem to be making an early move from the Snake River into the Grand Ronde River.

• Oregon plagued by steelhead

  January 22, 2010 in Outdoors Biologists are urging anglers to catch and keep a larger portion of the huge bounty of steelhead expected to continue pouring into Oregon Coast rivers for the next week or … 2

• Region sees record steelhead run

  December 27, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C14 The record run of steelhead that paraded up the Snake River delivered pleasure and profit from the mouth of the Columbia upstream 800 miles to the Salmon, Idaho, area. On …

• Steelhead releases could be cut back

  November 15, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C13 Is the bounty of hatchery steelhead moving up the Snake River too much of a good thing? Fishermen certainly don’t think so, and that’s why resentment is simmering on the …

• As rush subsides, steelheaders revel in the wake of a record run

    November 15, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C14 The Snake River’s record run of steelhead has been parading upstream and delivering pleasure and profit from the mouth of the Columbia upstream 800 miles to the Salmon, Idaho, area— …

• Steelhead dream comes true at last

  November 14, 2009 in City on Page B1 I’ve long nurtured the dream of catching the iconic symbol of the Northwest, the wily steelhead trout. Previously on these pages, I have chronicled my pathetic attempts to achieve this …

• 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 …

• Poachers caught fishing near hatchery

  October 25, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C13 Three Kennewick men caught fishing in closed waters have been charged in Franklin County District Court on several counts involving theft of salmon and steelhead from a state fish hatchery …

• Shrimp bait color, scent are recipe for success

  October 25, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C14 A trail of pink and purple stains runs along the floor of the Water’s Edge Tackle Shop in Clarkston. The handle on the front door is stained, as are the …

• 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, …

• Steelheading opens Tuesday on Upper Columbia

  September 28, 2009 in News, Sports, Outdoors A huge run of steelhead has prompted the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to open the Upper Columbia and five tributaries to steelhead fishing starting Tuesday.

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