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While exploring the Icicle River for fishing spots, this butterfly decided to hitch a ride on my wife Eileen's hat!
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff and the Leavenworth Hatchery line up to be served a salmon lunch provided by the Icicle Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited. Chapter president Dave Moazed does the honors.
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What looked like a cloud layer from a distance was actually a show field and cornice. This was taken from the Icicle River valley floor. This is a great time to fly fish the Icicle for small rainbow.
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This shot of a summer run Chinook being netted was taken at Chelan Falls recently. The anglers in this boat put on a show, landing two nice Chinook while everyone else went without a bite. Fishing for summer runs is improving at all the familiar hot spots on the upper Columbia as more fresh fish move into our area. Fishing for sockeye is good, too.
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Jeff Phippen, of Leavenworth, poses next to the sign that explains how the Trout Unlimited partnership with the Chelan County PUD and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife created an acclimation pond for steelhead, and a juvenile trout pond for kids. I took the photo during the Icicle Chapter of Trout Unlimited's annual kids fishing day at the pond.
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I am holding up a dandy summer-run Chinook I caught while fishing with Shane Magnuson (right), below Wanapum Dam on the opening day of summer run salmon season.
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T.J. Hester traveled from the Tri-Cities to fish with Shane Magnuson, Upper Columbia Guide Service, below Wanapum Dam. Here he shows off one of the sockeye we boated on opening day.
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Fred Lillian was one of the people that came on the trip to Belize and he joined Eric Granstrom and I at Omak Lake. He caught some really big Lahontan cutthroat on our recent trip to the Colville Reservation Lake.
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Eric Granstrom shows off one of many Lahontan cutthroat that we caught fishing at the south end of Omak Lake. We caught fish everywhere we went but found a good number near the large rock island.
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People are gathered below at the fish ladder at the new Colville Tribal Hatchery at Bridgeport to witness the Fist Fish Ceremony. This took place during the opening celebration.
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