The return of spring chinook jacks counted at Bonneville Dam is on a near-record pace. Through May 9, a total of 18,032 spring chinook jacks had been counted at the dam. The record, since at least 1960, was 18,119 fish in 2009. That year, nearly 82,000 jacks were counted through June 15, the end of the spring chinook count at the dam, said Joe Hymer with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Lakes

American: The trout fishing has been good. People are fishing down 15 feet with a worm and a bobber or trolling with some sort of flasher …

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The state, working with the Wenatchee Heights Reclamation District and a local fly-fishing group, will open Upper Wheeler Reservoir to fly fishing only starting May 18.

Anglers will be able to fish for trout and all other game fish through Sept. 14.

The reservoir is located about 11 miles southwest of Wenatchee in Chelan County.

The reservoir is owned and operated by the Wenatchee Heights Reclamation District and has been closed to public access. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has made arrangements with the district and the Wenatchee Valley Fly Fishers to grant public access to recreational anglers …

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Salt water

Fly fishing: The searun cutthroat trout action remains very good. Use any type of baitfish patterns, although many anglers are still opting for flies that mimic chum fry.

South Sound: Salmon fishing south of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge remains open. Good places to try include Point Gibson, Green Point and the mouth of Wollochet Bay. The lingcod fishing has been a bit slow overall.

Westport: The halibut fishing got off to a good start, with charter boats bringing in limits during Sunday’s opener, as well as some limits of lingcod.

Lakes

Clear (Pierce): People are catching some limits …

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Another way to take advantage of the warm weather this week is to take part in the razor clam dig that will open Wednesday.

The dig will run through May 14 at Twin Harbors and Friday and Saturday at Long Beach. No digging will be allowed at either beach after noon.

Here are the low tide times for this dig:

• Wednesday: 6:22 a.m., -0.5 feet, Twin Harbors
• Thursday, 7 a.m., -0.8 feet, Twin Harbors
• Friday, 7:37 am, -0.9 feet, Twin Harbors and Long Beach
• Saturday: 8:12 a.m., -0.8 feet, Twin Harbors and Long Beach
• Sunday: 8:48 a.m., -0.7 feet,

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With the warm weather expected this week, Metro Parks Tacoma has opened five spraygrounds. These parks will operate daily 10 a.m.-8 p.m. all week.

The parks opening are: Jefferson Park, McKinley Playfield, Norpoint Park, Titlow Park and Wright Park.

After this week, the spraygrounds will be open weekends through May 27, then daily May 8-Sept. 2 and weekends through the rest of September.

The other spraygrounds are located at South Park, Wapato Hills Park (closed for repairs), Franklin Park and Kandle Park.

Anglers are reminded that new fishing rules go into effect Wednesday. You can find all the rules online.

The bulk of Wednesday’s fishing report are opening-day stats from lakes around the South Sound.

Bay: This lake had the best catch rate among Pierce County lakes that opened Saturday. Anglers averaged 5.7 trout a person. All told, people caught 660 trout.

Clear (Pierce): Trout anglers averaged 4.9 fish a person. In addition, there were 44 kokanee caught on Saturday.

Clear (Thurston): This lake produced the largest number of opening-day trout in the county. Anglers landed 388 trout Saturday, an average …

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UPDATED AT 11:44 A.M.

The engraved name of Margaret Anderson, the Mount Rainier National Park ranger killed Jan. 1, 2012, was unveiled this morning at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Also unveiled today was the name of Prince William County (Va.) Police Officer Chris Yung.

The annual Unveiling Day ceremony takes place each year to symbolically starts the process of engraving new names onto the memorial’s marble walls.

Anderson and Yung are among 321 fallen law enforcement officers nationwide whose names will be added to the memorial this spring. A series of formal …

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Saturday is the opening of the lowland lake trout fishing season, and some people will be on the water at 12:01 a.m. If you do plan to head out, remember to have a current fishing license and to give other anglers enough room.

Lakes

American: Trolling Wedding Rings and Dick Nite spoons is producing good catches of rainbow trout. Also, trolling a pink mini squid behind a pinl dodger also is effective.

Nunnally: The fishing is good, especially if you are looking to catch a lot of fish, just not large ones. Most people are retrieving leeches and catching plenty …

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