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Jack chinook run will boost this year’s salmon fishing opportunity

I mentioned in today’s fishing report that the unexpected large return of jack salmon bodes well for next year’s chinook run because they are typically the front runners of the adult returns next year. So more jacks this year means

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Chinook season starts May 4

The Idaho Fish and Game Commission approved a spring chinook salmon fishing season to start Saturday, May 4, on parts of the Clearwater, Salmon and Snake rivers. Fish counts from Bonneville Dam suggest that the 2013 return of chinook salmon

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There are 50,000 reasons to fish C.J. Strike this weekend

Idaho Power released 50,000 rainbow trout this week into C.J. Strike’s Cottonwood and Jack’s Creek accesses. An additional 6,000 were released into the Lower Salmon Falls Reservoir near Bell Rapids, 14,000 at Centennial Park near Twin Falls and 2,000 below

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Fish and Game to stock trout in February

Fishing weather is improving, and the Idaho Department of Fish and Game is planning to stock area waters with catchable rainbow trout. The number of trout actually released may bechanged because of weather, water conditions, equipment problems or schedule changes.

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