Rainbow revival at Lake Pend Oreille
The fish that made Idaho’s largest lake famous are getting back to trophy form.
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Carson Jeffres, right, with his cousin Nathan Jeffres, of Sandpoint, holds a 22-pound rainbow he caught last year in Lake Pend Oreille.
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Anglers on a boat piloted by Ryan Roslak of Athol, Idaho, troll a dozen lines in pursuit of trophy rainbow trout in Lake Pend Oreille.
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Anglers on a boat piloted by Ryan Roslak of Athol troll 10 lines in pursuit of trophy rainbow trout in Lake Pend Oreille.
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Carson Jeffres, center, was 8 in 1989 when he caught this 26-pound 1-ounce rainbow with Dave Devries and his son, Thys, at Lake Pend Oreille. The photo is framed with the fly that duped the fish and the 25-Pounder Club patch awarded by the Lake Pend Oreille Idaho Club and displayed with the mounted fish.
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Dave Gillespie caught this rainbow trout, which was just under 25 pounds, while winter fishing with Ryan Roslak on Lake Pend Oreille.
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