A purple Dahlberg Diver disappeared through a
gaping void in the water. This wasn’t the slashing strike I was expecting from a
pike. Rather it was as if someone had suddenly pulled the drain stopper in that
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I could see its immense golden form just under  the surface cruising near an incoming spring.
 Its direction changed as food or  curiosity presented itself. I made my cast and the sniper,
 a marabou and guinea  creation of my own, landed 15 feet from the cruising fish. At the splash of the
fly the fish immediately turned and began to fin towards it...Click here to read more

I was fishing Idaho’s Winchester Lake when what  had appeared to be part of a  submerged tree
limb suddenly moved. I stood  transfixed, not  believing what I had seen. It occurred to me that
the “limb”  was  one of the lake’s more mysterious denizens, a tiger muskie... Click here to read more.

The Lahontan cutthroat trout is a fascinating  creature. It is one of the few salmonids that not only survives
 but thrives in highly alkaline waters, such as those of its historic natural range in the Great
Basin area of the west. Nevada’s Pyramid Lake is the most famous of the Great  Basin cutthroat lakes,
historically growing Lahontan cutts of massive proportions. The world-record Lahontan, a 41-pound leviathan,
 came from Pyramid Lake in the 1920s. Several decades ago Washington’s Lake Lenore—a 1,600-acre arid-country lake with the kind of water in which Lahontans thrive—seemed a likely place for the WDFW to try planting these cutthroat.
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