Fishrapper © 2013 The Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle Owned and operated by Eagle Newspapers Inc. 618 Okoma Drive, Omak, Wash. P.O. Box 553, Omak WA 98841 Roger Harnack, Editor and Publisher Al Camp, Sports Editor Lynn Hoover, Advertising Manager 509-826-1110 • 800-572-3446 509-826-5819 fax • www.omakchronicle.com Cover photo by Kim Youngers, Brewster
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Leandra Agee of Omak, who was 3 last year, reacts to her fish during weigh-in at the 33rd annual OkanoganOmak Rotary Fish Derby on May 19 in Conconully.
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McKayla Ford inspects kokanee trout caught during an outing this April to Palmer Lake near Loomis.
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Andy Ade of Omak wraps up the steelhead season on the Okanogan with this beauty caught in the Okanogan River near Oroville.
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An angler works a fly at Sugarloaf Lake near Conconully during last year’s fishing season.
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Randy Osborn, fisheries biologist with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife Warm Water Fisheries Program, holds an anesthetized Curlew 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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David Lindeblad of Omak and his dog, Molly, work the shoreline earlier this year in search of Lahontan cutthroat in Omak Lake.
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Four Omak Lake Lahontan cutthroats grace the net of anglers fishing May 18. “They were being readied for release as they were all brought to the boat simultaneously,” Anton Jones said. “Now, that’s what I call a ‘quad of quads’ as all four were about four pounds.”
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