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Sign up for the Quick Strike newsletter The latest fishing news, tips and tricks Dylan Smith, an angler from Idaho Falls, has reclaimed his place in the Idaho record books with a 40-plus-inch lake trout. The monster laker came from Payette Lake, the same body of water where he broke the state catch-and-release laker record
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When I was growing up in rural Texas, The question wasn’t whether or not you would eventually hit a deer while driving. It was like an inevitability. This is clearly true for many Americans, who experience between 1 and 2 million crashes Every year with big animals. But unlike my coworkers in Colorado and Montana,
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