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Steelhead running average over dams; many more to come

Steelhead over Bonneville Dam, April 24, 2012. (Fish Passage Center)
Steelhead over Bonneville Dam, April 24, 2012. (Fish Passage Center)

FISHING -- Steelhead aren't making that big early spirt up the Snake and into Idaho this year.

The run numbers over Both Bonneville -- as well as the few hundred a day that were marching over Lower Granite last week -- are hovering around the five-year average.

Much more fun to come.



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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