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Thu., Sept. 26, 2013

Landers verifies Columbia River’s record run of chinook salmon

Rich Landers poses with a chinook salmon he landed in the Ringold area of the Columbia River on Sept. 26, 2013, with fishing guide Toby Wyatt of Reel Time Fishing. (Kim Bowman)

FISHING -- Four people, including me, reeled 13 chinook salmon to the boat today in the Hanford Reach and got eight of them INTO the boat.

That's a good indication that the record run of chinook salmon heading up the Columbia and Snake Rivers is the real deal.

We were fishing with Toby Wyatt and Jim Havener of Reel Time Fishing on Wyatt's 27-foot boat, which he built with his dad in Clarkston.

Posted Sept. 26, 2013, 8:55 p.m.

By Rich Landers

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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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