Word: 22s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...across, you had the feeling that the salmon were running right into your field, into your playground, even into your back yard. As soon as school was out kids would run whooping and hollering down to the creek, to try for salmon with spears, gigs, pike poles, BB guns, .22s, and even with stones. Sometimes there would be a wounded fish trapped in some shallow pool. Sometimes you could see a salmon leap a falls, or jump the spillway of a lumber company's dam. There would be a dark flash barely under the water, an explosion of water...