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Article: PACIFIC SALMON GO FOR THE GLITTER.(Sports)(Column)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- September 26, 2003
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Byline: J. MICHAEL KELLY OUTDOORS WRITER
Imagine a Las Vegas revue, with dancers decked out in extravagant, glittery costumes and wearing way too much makeup. That should give you a pretty good picture of the sort of lures that will catch Pacific salmon during their autumn run in Lake Ontario tributaries.
As they swim up the Salmon River, Sandy Creek or other streams, chinooks and cohos have only one thing on their minds - propagation of the species.
All Pacifics are programmed by nature to die after spawning. By the time they enter their natal streams, their stomachs have begun to atrophy and they will never digest another morsel of food. Yet until their ...