When salmon return from the ocean this fall for their age-old spawning drama, American River anglers may well get their first chance in three years to welcome them back. That hook-and-line connection between man and fish has been banned since 2007 to protect the fall-run chinook salmon amid an unprecedented population decline. While the causes of the decline remain unclear, the ban apparently helped. This year's run is projected to surge back, and on Wednesday the California Fish and Game Commission is expected to approve limited salmon fishing again in the American, Feather and Sacramento rivers. It's a moment that seemed impossibly far away in 2007, when anglers such as Sacramento fishing guide J.D. Richey confronted not just one ...