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This photo shows the mouth of Battle Creek (at right) as it joins the mainstem Sacramento River during the fall chinook salmon run with expectant sport fishermen at lower left. Photo by Pat Higgins.


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Battle Creek is just out of view to the right in this photo that shows jet sleds in the hole at the mouth of Battle Creek on the mainstem Sacramento River during the fall chinook salmon run. Photo by Pat Higgins.


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This photo was taken looking west across the mainstem Sacramento River from the mouth of Battle Creek with a fly fisherman fishing the inside of a bend just upstream. Photo by Pat Higgins.


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Young sport anglers try to hook a large fall chinook salmon fishing from the bank at the mouth of Battle Creek (at right). In some years hundreds of thousands of fall chinook return to Battle Creek. Photo by Pat Higgins.