Salmon rest in a side channel of the Dungeness River at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim on Thursday. Thousands of the fish were making their way upriver to their spawning grounds. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Salmon rest in a side channel of the Dungeness River at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim on Thursday. Thousands of the fish were making their way upriver to their spawning grounds. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Donna Jones, left, and Penny Smith, both of Sequim, peer into a heavily shaded side channel of the Dungeness River as hundreds of salmon hide in the shadows to spawn on Thursday at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)