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New terms required to describe sockeye fishing this good

Anglers net a sockeye in the Brewster area of the Columbia River. (Rich Landers)
Anglers net a sockeye in the Brewster area of the Columbia River. (Rich Landers)

FISHING -- The sockeye and summer chinook fishing in the Brewster area of the Columbia River has been excellent. Depending on whether the river temperatures change, excellent could turn into phenomenal.

Or, as Washington Fish and Wildlife Department regional fisheries manager Jeff Korth described it after seeing the opening day results,

"It's going to be a blood bath."

See Korth's explanation nestled in this story that ran in Sunday Outdoors.



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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