FISHING -- Toby Wyatt of Reel Time Fishing based in Clarkston has been back in the lower Columbia River intercepting the first wave of spring chinook salmon.

But he also has guides working salmon hundreds of miles upstream at  Dworshak Reservoir where kokanee are smacking lures like crazy. Reel Time is offering a new kokanee-smallmouth combo trip with Jarret's Guide Service.

"Our most recent trip boated 45 kokanee and 20 bass, he said, noting that three of the smallies weighed 4.2, 5.5 and 5.9 pounds.

Want something bigger?

"Recent sturgeon fishing on the Snake River at Heller Bar has yielded very big fish -- 10 feet and 9 feet," Wyatt said. "This is the time of year for the big ones."

For keeper sturgeon, his guides are going below John Day Dam, where the last trip landed two keepers with more than 20 fish released.