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FWP Reboots Efforts to Return Native Redband Rainbow Trout to Northwest Montana
Committed trout anglers who make a habit of plying the Kootenai River tailwater downstream of Libby Dam, or of plumbing the depths of Lake Koocanusa, may have encountered one of the football-shaped rainbows that grow big and blocky on a steady diet of …