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Article: SHAD COUNT MOUNTS AT BONNEVILLE DAM.(Sports)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- May 27, 1999
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Time to head south if you enjoy fishing for shad, the lively and leaping member of the herring family that each spring jams up by the hundreds of thousands below Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River.
Counts at the Bonneville fish ladder Tuesday jumped to about 14,000 shad, which means fishing below the big dam should improve directly.
``Last week, when the counts were down around 1,500, we were seeing an average catch of 1 1/2 shad per angler, so we should see improvement there,'' said Joe Hymer, Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist in Battle Ground.
In fact, state catch samplers yesterday checked several boats downstream in the ...