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Coho count nice way to end September

A pile of 15 coho and one chinook is a limit of 16 salmon for the eight anglers aboard the Coho King fishing out of Ilwaco, Wash., earlier this month.

FISHING — It’s been a good year for Columbia River spring chinook, a record year for sockeye, a record or near-record year for fall chinook, and now the latest about coho…. drum roll, Please:

“The 181,514 adult coho counted at Bonneville Dam through Sept. 30 is the 2 nd highest since at least 1938,” says Joe Hymer, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Columbia River salmon specialist.

“he record is 225,388 fish in 2001.”

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