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Outdoors

Chinook salmon swirl beneath the Fifth Avenue bridge as they wait for the tide to rise on Wednesday. The fish are on a migration from the Pacific Ocean to spawning beds on Deschutes River. (Tony Overman/The Olympian)

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No need to travel far to do some Chinook salmon watching

Chinook salmon watching.

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Fishing Blog

Sometimes, it's fun just to watch 08/19

Outdoors Blog

Proposed crab-reporting penalty makes this outdoorsman crabby 08/13

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List of trail closures

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Fishing photo gallery

Share your catch
Proud of the fish you caught recently? The Olympian is interested in publishing photos -- in print and online -- of your fishing adventures. If you’d like to submit a photo, e-mail it to sports@theolympian.com or mail it to Chester Allen, The Olympian, 111 Bethel St. NE, Olympia WA, 98506. Please include your name, town, contact number and date you caught the fish. See submitted photos from South Sound anglers in the Fishing photo gallery.

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Sports Editor

Ron Newberry
360-754-5432
rnewberry@theolympian.com

Outdoors Reporter

Chester Allen
360-754-4226
callen@theolympian.com

No need to travel far to do some Chinook salmon watching

Chinook salmon watching.

Don’t believe the hype of TV: ’Hunters’ more show than reality

Don’t believe everything you see on the Saturday morning hunting shows.

Researcher says bigfoot just a rubber gorilla suit

ATLANTA — Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice - handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it - was slowly thawed out, and discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit.