How Big Was That Fish?

HOW BIG WAS THAT FISH?
By Erik Gunderson
July, 2025
Number 021
Photo Challenge: Ultra-Wide

”Not a super high quality picture here, I admit, but it offers a bit of Northwest flavor. This is a steelhead making her way upstream on the Columbia River to find the cove or lake where she hatched, there to lay her own eggs. They swim in bursts of energy as they move through the fast-moving current, so it’s hard to measure them, but I think she was about 18” long.”

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