Spring 2018
Montana Fly Fishing Magazine is the FREE digital magazine devoted to fly fishing in the great state of Montana.
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Salmon are counted by the<br />
hundreds as they wriggle<br />
over concrete barriers<br />
up and down the Pacific<br />
coast while in Bristol Bay<br />
they are stockpiled by the<br />
millions. So numerous<br />
is this run, if you were to<br />
stack them nose to tail they<br />
would stretch from Bristol<br />
Bay to Australia and back.<br />
The fact that salmon still<br />
exist on many southern<br />
rivers is a testament to<br />
their fierce determination<br />
and evolutionary mastery.<br />
Stragglers still perpetuate<br />
their species amongst the<br />
steepest of odds. Their<br />
efforts know no limit.<br />
A Sockeye salmon known<br />
only as Lonesome Larry<br />
was the only one to return<br />
to a Lake in Idaho after<br />
swimming 900 miles and<br />
passing 8 dams. Redfish<br />
Lake, which in a bygone<br />
era saw tens of thousands<br />
of these oceans going<br />
vagabonds return, had nearly<br />
lost its namesake. This story<br />
has been repeated over and<br />
over from the Puget Sound<br />
to Las Angeles.
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