"He is a pretty cool fish, and I just wonder if there are more out there, " he said.

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"There are some pretty nice fish in them, too, " he says.

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Since that process has happened a little more slowly than many people expected, though, a few of those fish are getting pretty big.

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On a nymph rig, I dredge up my biggest fish of the trip, a pretty two-foot-long cutbow, and call it a day.

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Dr. BLACK: And sure enough there was this long-term increase in the numbers of fish followed by a, you know, pretty rapid increase towards the end of the time series.

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Mr. BOB LEACHMAN (Retired U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Biologist): Yeah, this time of year wind is pretty common.

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