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GOING FOR GOLD

y screen-dominated life feeds me a steady parade of photos, most of them forgettable. But a couple of years ago, my eyes swiped across an Instagram picture of somebody holding a golden trout, and I felt a surge of envy: So, when I learned that some lakes in the Snowy Range hold goldens, I loaded up my

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