Other luxuries include a six-burner stove, hundreds of pounds of food, flatware, napkins, fly rods and associated gear.

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The 5-pound "pink" salmon, no great shakes in these parts, is quickly returned and we resume trolling, two rods on outriggers to the sides, a fly rod in another holder "bucktailing" behind.

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