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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

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Estuary sturgeon season closed beginning Friday

Good catch, increased angling effort is filling catch guideline 10 days earlier than scheduled

Fishing report 6/13

Summer salmon rules begin Sunday; estuary sturgeon catch better than anticipated; kokanee fishing good at Yale Reservoir

Out & About

Items about volunteers needed for Washington Trails Association projects and a boating safety class in Vancouver

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Close, but not quite summer

Trails, campgrounds in Gifford Pinchot National Forest opening as snow slowly melts

Gillnetters to fish lower Columbia on Sunday night

Commercials projected to catch about 2,500 summer chinook between Beacon Rock and the coast

Spring chinook retention reopens in Columbia Gorge

Boat angling also resumes between Beacon Rock and Bonneville Dam

Fishing report 6/6

Goose Lake loaded with trout; chinook, sturgeon and kokanee fishing remains slow; shad, walleye and bass catches improve

Out & About

Items about elk hoof rot in Southwest Washington, free use of state parks, a Columbia River Compact meeting and Merwin Special Needs Kids Day

Fishing report 5/30

Sturgeon fishing improves in lower Columbia, shad plentiful and spring chinook sputter along

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Items about free fishing clinics at Fishermen's Marine, cross-country skiing at Mount Hood Meadows and Free Fishing Weekend in Oregon

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