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The Drake

Letter from a Smallmouth

So let me get this straight: Last spring, some college kid caught one of my extended family members from Montana’s Gardner River, near its confluence with (gasp!) the almighty Yellowstone. Six months later, another of my brethren gets sucked through a giant tube—out of Lake Powell and into the Lee’s Ferry stretch of the Colorado

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