Operation Lake Pend Oreille trout catcher

Hickey Brothers Fishery, hired out of Bailey's Harber, Wisc., push off onto Lake Pend Oreille from Hope, Idaho, to catch lake trout, a non-native predator that feeds on kokanee.

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Thu., Feb. 11, 2010

Mark Liter of Idaho Fish & Game and Tyler Long of Hickey Brothers Fishery board a boat on Lake Pend Oreille in Hope on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Hickey Brothers was hired out of Wisconsin to reduce the lake trout population.

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Dan Daubner, of Hickey Brothers Fishery out of Bailey's Harber, Wisc., pushes of from the harbor at Hope on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010.

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Captain Paul Saunders of Hickey Brothers Fishery takes of from Hope on Lake Pend Oreille on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010.

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Tyler Long of Hickey Brothers Fishery checks his location on Lake Pend Oreille on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010.

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Dan Daubner of Hickey Brothers Fishery prepares to toss netting into Lake Pend Oreille to snag lake trout on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010.

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Tyler Long of Hickey Brothers Fishery frees a lake trout from the netting on their boat on Lake Pend Oreille on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010.

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A lake trout is caught in the netting on a Hickey Brothers Fishery boat on Lake Pend Oreille on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010.

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Tyler Long, center, and Dan Daubner of Hickey Brothers Fishery share a laugh while working on their boat on Lake Pend Oreille on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Captain Paul Saunders is on the far left.

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"You can't beat the scenery," said captain Paul Saunders, right, while on Lake Pend Oreille in Hope on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010.

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A bald eagle cruises over a Hickey Brothers Fishery boat on Lake Pend Oreille near Hope on Tuesday, February 9, 2010.

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