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Time to hook some chinook in the Lower Columbia | Fishing Seattle Times

VANCOUVER, Wash. — Daylight hadn't poked its head above the eastern horizon, but yet there was a bustling crowd racing in all directions across the Lower Columbia River on a recent chilly spring morning.

This wasn't the midweek morning rush hour of cars zipping across the I-5 Bridge, but a huge cluster of boats seeking out what could be the largest spring chinook return to the Columbia River since 1938.

Fisheries managers are forecasting a whopping 550,000 spring chinook that are now heading back to the Columbia and its tributaries.

For the past four years, I've made the trek south to get a chance at catching these prized fish known for their tasty, Omega 3-laced red-orange colored meat that rivals Alaska's Copper River chinook salmon.

According to commercial fishermen who enjoyed some good catches this past week, these Columbia spring kings are a big seller to restaurants and seafood markets in the Seattle area.

Biologist Joe Hymer and administrative assistant Wil Morrison at state Fish and Wildlife's Vancouver office dubbed me their unofficial good luck charm because on every trip the past four years we've caught at least two or more spring chinook.

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I moved slowly upstream peering intently into the gin clear water, the bright sunshine allowed me to see every pebble, stick and even the minnows in the bottom of the pool. No breeze ruffled the surface. A shoal of bait fish hung close to a weed bed. Nothing moved as I peered intently into the [...]

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