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Archive Home > 2005 > October > 20 > Going wild for big fish

Going wild for big fish

Wild Billy Lake offers paying fly anglers the opportunity to catch huge rainbows

By Eric Flowers / The Bulletin
October 20, 2005

They call them "footballs."

Rainbow trout so stuffed on a steady diet of minnows, fresh-water shrimp and summer bugs that they can seem as round as they are long.

We called them pigs - broad shouldered rainbows that emerged from the surface of Wild Billy Lake, a roughly 200-acre....

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