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Pikeminnow anglers fishing for dollars


Deer Park's Pamela Ramsden displays the state-record pikeminnow she caught last week in the Snake River. Photo courtesy of Brian Ramsden
 (Photo courtesy of Brian Ramsden / The Spokesman-Review)
Deer Park's Pamela Ramsden displays the state-record pikeminnow she caught last week in the Snake River. Photo courtesy of Brian Ramsden (Photo courtesy of Brian Ramsden / The Spokesman-Review)

FISHING -- The 2011 Northern Pikeminnow Sport Reward Season, which pays anglers a bounty of up to $8 a fish, will run May 1-Sept. 30 on the Columbia River from the mouth to the Tri-Cities and up the Snake to Lewiston.

Earn a bonus of $500 for catching a tagged fish.

A few anglers have earned more than $40,000 a season.

Boyer Park on the Snake River has been the tops among the 17 check stations for collecting pikeminnows from anglers in recent years.

Get details online or call (800) 858-9015.



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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