GOLD BEACH — John Anderson took an old fishing tool, added a new twist and promptly ushered spring to the Rogue River on Tuesday — while perhaps starting a new fad along the way.

Anderson's modified plastic diver played a key role in this year's first confirmed catch of a Rogue spring chinook, the opening salvo to a season that always brings promise to anglers locked in a love-hate relationship with the Rogue's most prized denizen.

The diver's unique up-and-down action in the current helped whip and wiggle a spinning anchovy bait enough to get the springer to chomp it early Tuesday on the lower Rogue...

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