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Columbia River region creel checks

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Columbia River below Bonneville Dam -- Last week: 580 bank anglers caught 11 spring chinook and five steelhead, and released six spring chinook and three steelhead; 403 boats with 904 anglers caught 61 spring chinook and nine steelhead, and released 12 spring chinook and one steelhead; Three bank anglers caught no sturgeon; 12 boats with 27 anglers caught one sturgeon and released nine.

Columbia River in The Dalles Pool -- Last week: 39 bank anglers released 30 sturgeon; five boats with 14 anglers released 17 sturgeon; 23 bank anglers caught one steelhead; two bank anglers caught no walleye; 24 boats with 60 anglers caught 55 walleye and released five; one boat with two anglers released five bass.

Source: The Seattle Times

Day at the Docks starts free fishing program for kids

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Free is good pretty much no matter what it is, and following Sunday’s 33rd annual Day at the Docks, all kids 15 and under get to fish free on any open-party half-, three-quarter- or full-day trip out of any of the San Diego Bay-based sport boats.

It all starts Sunday with the free Kids Fishing Adventure sponsored by Everingham Bros. Bait Co. and Okuma Fishing Tackle. Fishing pens will be stationed on the dock at H&M Landing, Point Loma Sportfishing and Fisherman’s Landing, and each will be stocked by Everingham Bros. with mackerel. Fishing is 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

But the big Day at the Docks celebration is only the beginning of a more than month-long program where kids 15 and under get to fish free with a paying adult on any of the San Diego-based boats. It’s a terrific way to introduce a youngster to the splendors of ocean fishing without breaking the bank.

Source: U-T San Diego

Little boats = big fun

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My love affair with small boats goes back a long ways. My mother and dad were avid bass anglers and did most of their fishing from the banks of the many backwoods farm ponds in Red River County where I grew up back in the late fifties and sixties. One day my Uncle Jack showed up with a brand new, homemade wooden boat. I remember it to be about 12-foot long with a couple of padded bench seats. It was built from marine plywood. Caulked and varnished, my uncle’s handiwork was a little fishing machine.

This little boat opened up plenty of new waters for my parents and served double duty for running trotlines during the many family camping trips we enjoyed every 9 weeks when the broiler chickens my dad raised went to market.

Source: North Texas e-News