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Article: Up the creek, with a paddle (and leaping salmon); Kayak on Kitsap Peninsula's Miller Bay to get friendly with the chums.(NWWeekend)
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- The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
- Article date:
- November 12, 2009
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Byline: Tan Vinh Seattle; Seattle Times staff reporter
MILLER BAY, Kitsap County -- The autumn backdrop. The trail of floating leaves from cars whizzing by. A sign of fall? Nah. You're in salmon country now. That signals the start of chum runs here. Time to grab the binoculars and polarized shades and set out by kayak to witness the return of a Northwest icon.
Some watch from the shoreline, eelgrass dangling from their rubber boots. You can smell the tide rushing in from here. You can see the salmon jumping.
"You see fish up to 25 pounds splashing their way up the stream, returning to their place of birth," said Paul Dorn, a local biologist, ...