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Leandra Agee of Omak, who was 3 last year, reacts to her fish during weigh-in at the 33rd annual Okanogan-Omak Rotary Fish Derby on May 19 in Conconully.

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Curlew Lake Association volunteers help unload rainbow trout into the lake last May.

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Randy Osborn, fisheries biologist with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife Warm Water Fisheries Program, holds an anesthetizedCurlew Lake tiger muskie. The fish, introduced into the lake in 1997, was scanned for a wire implanted when it was a fry.

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Mike Leckvold, 72, of Conconully, hefts his 24-pound triploid trout caught on the reservation side of Lake Rufus Woods in early April.

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