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Grande Ronde catch-and-release steelheading could be history

Sean Visintainer, left, and Jennifer Nepean steelhead fishing on the Grande Ronde River on Jan. 1, 2014.
Sean Visintainer, left, and Jennifer Nepean steelhead fishing on the Grande Ronde River on Jan. 1, 2014.

FISHING -- Fisheries managers have proposed a rule that would require anglers to keep all hatchery steelhead they catch on most of southeastern Washington, including the Grande Ronde with the exception of the first 2.5 miles up from the mouth. Anglers would have to stop fishing when they retained their limit of two or three hatchery steelhead, depending on the river.

Check out this and other proposals and make comments online.

See the steelhead retention rule here.



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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