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Allen Thomas

Reporter, Outdoors

Email: al.thomas@columbian.com

Call: 360-735-4555

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Allen Covers fishing, hunting and outdoors.

Recent Stories

Fishing report 5/16

Anglers can fish for hatchery steelhead, hatchery chinook jacks downstream of Interstate 5; shad angling now open; kokanee catches improving

Clark-Skamania Flyfishers to reach grant milestone

Club will have awarded $150,000 in past decade to help Southwest Washington, Columbia Gorge fisheries, habitat

Out & About

Items about Ape Cave trail, a boating safety class, a cycling event at Trout Lake, the Oregon Bass and Panfish Club meeting and a fishing contest by Cabela's

Summer sturgeon season set for Bonneville pool

Sportsmen get four days in June to retain fish between Bonneville, The Dalles dams

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States delay decision on lower Columbia spring chinook reopening

Washington and Oregon to meet again Monday to decide when to start angling again downstream of Bonneville Dam

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States to consider reopening spring chinook season in Columbia

About 1,200 salmon available for commercials and 1,400 for lower river sportsmen

Fishing report 5/2

Spring chinook catches improving at Wind, Drano; trout fishing good at Swift Reservoir; kokanee fishing spotty at Merwin Reservoir

Summer, fall salmon seasons set for lower Columbia

Chinook angling will resume no later than June 16

Out & About

Items about a temporary fishing closure at Klineline Pond, a fly-casting workshop on June 1, an open house at the Science and Learning Center at Coldwater near Mount St. Helens and a vacancy on the Boating Safety Advisory Council

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"College'' teaches trail-building techniques

Hundreds go to class to learn to improve, repair water crossings, rock walls and gain other backcountry skills

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