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Article: Salmon Fishing With a Local Hook -- Anglers are casting about on the Yakima River in the Yakima city limits for first time in memory
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- December 12, 1999
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It wasn't the perfect day for fishing. The Yakima River was
flowing high and muddy, a swirling brown soup of water, dirt and
flotsam.
But Gene Gallagher knew somewhere in that turbulence the salmon
were running, and he was there to catch one.
"This is just close to home and I wanted to give it a try,"
Gallagher said as he worked a baited line from the river bank near
Rest Haven Road.
For Gallagher and other Yakima-area anglers, this has been a
special year. For the first time in recent memory, the stretch of
river that runs through the city with the same name has been opened
for salmon fishing.
Since mid-November, local anglers have plied the waters of the
Yakima River closest to home in the ...