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Speckled Trout
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Pompano
Pompano

Trip Summary

January is off with a bang as the big trout bite has picked up! The incoming cold fronts will bring the waders back out but it will get these trout even more fired up! Let’s start your New Year right and get some lines tight!!
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Brinkley Peters
Palmetto, Florida, United States
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