My dad nearly broke a long troutless slump fighting a 16-inch rainbow in fast water.  It spit the hook after a while. From the Bois Brule River in Wisconsin.
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My dad nearly broke a long troutless slump fighting a 16-inch rainbow in fast water. It spit the hook after a while.

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