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The Unlovable Lamprey - written by Sean Connolly

How Do These Hideous Blood-Sucking Parasites Fit Into the Ecology of Pacific Salmon? Because of their distinctly elongated, tubular, disturbingly ...

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Sturgeon: A Different Way of Thinking by Sara Ichertz

There are these most incredible creatures some of us will go our entire life without ever laying our eyes on. They swim beneath the surface and le...

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Spring Salmon Tricks: In Case of Emergency, Break Glass by JD Richey

Spring Chinook are enigmatic beasts. Some days they chew like they’ve got a good dose of rabid barracuda in their genes. Other times, they act like...

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Biters & Fighters (Building a Better Hatchery Steelhead) by Don Roberts

Frank Moore, who lives and breathes the North Umpqua, claims he can distinguish between a wild steelhead and a hatchery fish by feel alone. There...

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Stillwater Paradise by George Krumm

The wind was steady out of the northeast at about seven miles per hour. Mostly overcast skies were keeping the light level relatively low, and rar...

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Sockeye Galore Story & Photos by Scott Haugen

You don’t have to travel to Alaska or Canada to experience sockeye fishing success. An abundance of these fish await in north-central Washington. ...

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The Pacific Lamprey – Salmon’s Excellent Friend by Dave Vedder

An adult Pacific lamprey in its natural habitat. Photo Courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Servicervice Few finny denizens of Northwest waters are ...

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