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“The tug is the drug to those eternally driven (or dammed) to catch the fish of a thousand casts.” Just to be sure, on this day I made 1,001 casts … without a single tug. On some days at Smith River Falls, above, steelhead and salmon can be seen jumping the falls by the dozens.
I chat with Jeff Ziller, the managing biologist for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Southern Willamette…
