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Jeff Lund
Feb 27, 2025
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Jan. 1, 2020 on a pink Pick Yer Pocket

As a kid, I threw spinners and spoons and didn’t bother to learn the impact of bugs in a salmon or trout’s life. No. 5 Blue Fox spinners were not part of an ecosystem, unless I snagged a rock and my line snapped. Then it stayed there, a shiny flaw in the river. 

I broadened my ecological knowledge in California where…

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