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Backcountry hiking with fish in a bag

by Jerry Painter
| August 6, 2020 1:00 AM

Crews stock back-country lakes one sack of fingerlings at a time

Like an anxious family gathered around the tree on Christmas morning, several Idaho Fish and Game employees stood next to a pickup truck at the Sage Junction rest stop on Interstate 15 one recent morning, waiting for their package.

The packages were pillow-sized, water-tight plastic bags, each with about a gallon of water inside and 500 finger-length Yellowstone cutthroat trout...

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