I caught this coho salmon alevin by accident while netting nymphs after an unsuccessful day steelhead fishing further downstream.  I let him swim in a container lid for a minute and slid him gently back into the river. From the Bois Brule River in Wisconsin.
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I caught this coho salmon alevin by accident while netting nymphs after an unsuccessful day steelhead fishing further downstream. I let him swim in a container lid for a minute and slid him gently back into the river.

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