Backcountry hiking with fish in a bag
Lauren Lane, an Idaho Department of Fish and Game conservation officer, deposits the last of 500 fingerling Yellowstone cutthroat trout into Hancock Lake. The department recently stocked five backwoods lakes in the Upper Snake Region with the tiny trout.
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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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