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Brewster King Salmon Derby Aug. 4-5 with $20,000 in cash, prizes

Brewster King Salmon Derby logo.
Brewster King Salmon Derby logo.

FISHING -- Top prize in the 2017 Brewster King Salmon Derby is $2,000 with lots of other cash prizes in adult and youth categories for anglers who reel in whopper kings from the Upper Columbia River. 

The 12th annual event is Aug. 4-5 with a mandatory skippers' meeting Aug. 3.

Ticket sales close July 31.

A new state fishing regulation that went into effect Thursday allows anglers to keep one wild salmon making the total daily limit four chinook, one of which can be unclipped.



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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