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The amazing struggles of big brown, rainbow, and cutthroat trout leaping waterfalls at Dry Run Creek, a tributary of the North Fork and White River near Mountain Home, Arkansas.
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Gene's Trout Fishing Resort, site sponsor, is one-half mile from where the 2Cooleys trout photos were taken.

How trout successfully climb the falls - Photo 56

trout swimming dry run creek norfork hatchery

Staying shallow is another tricky requirement. Since the fall steam is only about 6 inches thick a trout must swim upward in a very narrow band of water. The only way they can manage it is to land at the perfect angle and swim hard. If they have to swim more than a foot or so in this narrow band of water they will not make it, as this trout soon learned.

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