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King Salmon in the rivers use different holding water than steelhead. These monsters that can grow to over 50 lbs and prefer the deep slow pools. Of course you can catch salmon off the reds and in faster water because they must use those areas of the river during travel and spawning. Salmon tend to school up in the freshwater, so where there is one, there are usually more.
| Salmon Species | Holding water |
| Coho (silver) | Current seams and head of holes |
| Chum (dog salmon) | Current seams and tail outs |
| Pink (humpies) odd years | Current seams |
| King (chinook) | Deep slow pools, back eddies and deep water seams. |
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Books
Salmon
Fishing on River and Stream
by Alexander Baird Keachie
River
Salmon Fishing
by Bill Stinson
Salmon
Fishers of the Columbia
by Courtland L. Smith
Return to the River : The Classic Story of the Chinook Run
and the Men Who Fish It
by Roderick L. Haig-Brown, Steve Raymond, Charles Defeo (Illustrator)
