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Posted: 1/15/2015 11:49:43 AM EDT
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Piss on catch and release. Too much pressure not to have it unless you want stockers.  I wonder how old she is and how many times she's been caught?
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Posted: 1/15/2015 11:51:11 AM EDT
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I just realized I don't own clothing that I would allow a fish to touch.
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Posted: 1/15/2015 11:51:21 AM EDT
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Wow --- there's a lot of good eatin' right there. Doubtful. She's probably quite old. |
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Posted: 1/15/2015 11:54:10 AM EDT
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Rainbow trout are a threatened species? 
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Posted: 1/15/2015 11:55:55 AM EDT
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Doubtful. She's probably quite old. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Wow --- there's a lot of good eatin' right there. Doubtful. She's probably quite old. Probably not. The ones shaped like that are hybrid triploids. They don't spawn, all they do is eat, all year long. Couple lakes here in WA have some huge ones and they're all shaped just like that. |
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Posted: 1/15/2015 11:56:40 AM EDT
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Rainbow trout are a threatened species?
"Wild" ones are in some areas. There are also several strains of rainbows. Doubtful it's a native though; too many introduced fish for that any more. |
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Posted: 1/15/2015 11:58:53 AM EDT
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Probably not. The ones shaped like that are hybrid triploids. They don't spawn, all they do is eat, all year long. Couple lakes here in WA have some huge ones and they're all shaped just like that. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Wow --- there's a lot of good eatin' right there. Doubtful. She's probably quite old. Probably not. The ones shaped like that are hybrid triploids. They don't spawn, all they do is eat, all year long. Couple lakes here in WA have some huge ones and they're all shaped just like that. Interesting. That would explain it. Thanks |
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Posted: 1/15/2015 11:59:02 AM EDT
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It has to do with steelhead regulations I believe. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but I think that in idaho trout over a certain length are considered steelhead (ocean run trout). Depending on the season and regulations on keeping only hatchery fish(this might be for salmon only) it may techically be considered a steelhead by the state fish and game. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Rainbow trout are a threatened species?
This. WTF? They can borrow some of ours. It has to do with steelhead regulations I believe. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but I think that in idaho trout over a certain length are considered steelhead (ocean run trout). Depending on the season and regulations on keeping only hatchery fish(this might be for salmon only) it may techically be considered a steelhead by the state fish and game. ^^This! In WA I believe at 20" it's considered a steelhead. Have to release native steelhead in most rivers in the state. That's no steelhead but by legal definition it probably is. |
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Posted: 1/15/2015 12:03:27 PM EDT
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Idaho Johnny lost his right arm to such a beast.
He haunts the waters in search of this dread trout, this denizen of the deep. It is foretold and it will be his doom. 
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Posted: 1/15/2015 12:04:29 PM EDT
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Salmon sized trout!
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Posted: 1/15/2015 12:05:58 PM EDT
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I've spent a large part of my life looking for Moby Trout, never been to ID for fishing dammit i cant stop looking at these fat bastards, and i'm starting to sweat if i hooked it my luck it would have been on 10 lb test that's great, did you just make that up? 
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Posted: 1/15/2015 12:10:01 PM EDT
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I was surprised to see that came out of a river.
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Posted: 1/15/2015 12:11:50 PM EDT
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Too much pressure not to have it unless you want stockers. I wonder how old she is and how many times she's been caught?Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Piss on catch and release. Too much pressure not to have it unless you want stockers. I wonder how old she is and how many times she's been caught?That one appears to be a stocker. It looks like the fin is clipped like they do at the hatchery. It's still impressive that it lasted long enough to get that big. |
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Posted: 1/15/2015 12:12:08 PM EDT
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that picture needs to captioned
"BROTHER" 
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Posted: 1/15/2015 12:13:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What. |
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Posted: 1/15/2015 12:15:33 PM EDT
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Lends new meaning to the term 'Steely-Monster'.
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Posted: 1/15/2015 12:16:23 PM EDT
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I was surprised to see him come out to the river. Fixed for you. |
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Posted: 1/15/2015 12:18:56 PM EDT
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did he catch that on a fly or spinner? If he got that on a 6lb test with a fly then hats off to the man
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Posted: 1/15/2015 12:25:13 PM EDT
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Wonder if he caught it close to Dworshak Dam? A lot of big fish are caught
close to the spillway. Steelhead are threatened, but we have fishing derby's?
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Posted: 1/15/2015 12:51:58 PM EDT
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Fuck me, that's a big trout.
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Posted: 1/15/2015 12:54:47 PM EDT
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Massive Fish is Massive
March 1st cannot come soon enough... |
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Posted: 1/15/2015 1:12:25 PM EDT
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Biggest I have gotten out of the lake pushed 15lbs, but bigger steelies have been caught.
Current Michigan record for Rainbow is 26.5lbs so PPFFFFTT!!!!!!!!! 
Any Steelie over 6lbs is a hell of thrill to hook into, and a Trophy in my book, and especially on Fly gear. It's a shame that pacific run Steelhead are on the endangered list. Dude landed the trophy of several lifetimes. |
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Posted: 1/15/2015 1:16:38 PM EDT
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Wonder if he caught it close to Dworshak Dam? A lot of big fish are caught close to the spillway. Steelhead are threatened, but we have fishing derby's? Incidental catch while chasing Salmonids. Same shit happens with early spring Sucker fishing, and our DNR fish cops stay busy busting kids, with out of season Trout and salmon. I used to be one of those Kids. It's next to impossible for a 12yr old to throw back a 10lb Steelhead, when you were just Spawn bag fishing.
The fish don't care what is in season, and will take the bait if they are hungry. |
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Posted: 1/15/2015 1:32:20 PM EDT
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IFYDCARYAS I fucked your dog, cat and rooster yesterday and smiled? Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 1/15/2015 1:38:07 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/15/2015 1:47:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Probably not. The ones shaped like that are hybrid triploids. They don't spawn, all they do is eat, all year long. Couple lakes here in WA have some huge ones and they're all shaped just like that. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Wow --- there's a lot of good eatin' right there. Doubtful. She's probably quite old. Probably not. The ones shaped like that are hybrid triploids. They don't spawn, all they do is eat, all year long. Couple lakes here in WA have some huge ones and they're all shaped just like that. My dad would shit himself if we landed one of those. Pm me if you want. I got a real nice steelhead a few years back on the family farm but a lot closer to 12-15 lbs. |
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Posted: 1/15/2015 1:49:23 PM EDT
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I fucked your dog, cat and rooster yesterday and smiled? Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Quote HistoryQuoted:
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IFYDCARYAS I fucked your dog, cat and rooster yesterday and smiled? Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile I fucked your dad, cousin and roommates yesterday and sharted? |
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Posted: 1/15/2015 2:05:13 PM EDT
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It's steelhead, which is a sea-run rainbow and it got fat in the Pacific..
Wild fish with the adipose fin have to be released whereas hatchery fish have the adipose fin cut before they are released as young fish. I used to live in the area where this fish was caught in the Clearwater River system. |
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Posted: 1/15/2015 2:40:10 PM EDT
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I fucked your dad, cousin and roommates yesterday and sharted? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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IFYDCARYAS I fucked your dog, cat and rooster yesterday and smiled? Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile I fucked your dad, cousin and roommates yesterday and sharted? Iggy fifed Yankee Doodle carrying a Ruger yodeling a song. |
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Posted: 1/15/2015 2:57:01 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/15/2015 3:09:39 PM EDT
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dayum that's one big trout
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Posted: 1/15/2015 3:21:57 PM EDT
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Probably has a tumor or some genetic defect. It does not look right.
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Posted: 1/15/2015 3:23:53 PM EDT
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Piss on catch and release. Never heard of this practice. Is it just to establish dominance over the fish? |
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Posted: 1/15/2015 3:37:55 PM EDT
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Wow that's a big fish!
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Posted: 1/15/2015 3:45:13 PM EDT
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reminds me of a morbidly obese something
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Posted: 1/15/2015 4:00:34 PM EDT
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looks like one of those trout pillows you can get at Cabela's
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Posted: 1/15/2015 4:07:25 PM EDT
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we're gonna need a bigger skillet
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Posted: 1/15/2015 4:17:13 PM EDT
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The fish and the fisherman look oddly similar. It must have been fate!
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Posted: 1/15/2015 5:04:41 PM EDT
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The fish and the fisherman look oddly similar. It must have been fate! separated at birth. |
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Posted: 1/15/2015 5:15:06 PM EDT
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IdahoJohnny has really let himself go. Wasn't me I swear
If you'd like to know how a fish gets that big here is my "theory" The Clearwater is famous for its "B Run Steelhead" which are essential Rainbow Trout that go to the ocean. These fish can regularly exceed 15lbs with some going over 20lbs. A Steelhead is shaped differently than this fish so I know it did not go to the ocean. The steelhead, like salmon, come back to the river they were born in to spawn, what I believed happen was this fish was born in the Clearwater and then did not journey to the ocean as a Smolt. The fish lived it's life as a resident Rainbow trout and gorged itself on Salmon and Steelhead eggs while they were spawning. Combined with it's diet and genetics that could make it a big ass fish (scientifically speaking) its grew to a monster. The reason he could not keep the fish was in Idaho in streams that have Steelhead present, any Rainbow Trout over 20" is classified as a Steelhead and cannot be kept unless they have a clipped adipose fin (fin in front of the tail along its back). I have seen these footballs in the Clearwater before, but never caught one myself |
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Posted: 1/15/2015 5:19:10 PM EDT
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I'll bet that guy is glad he wore his torn sweatpants that day. 
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Posted: 1/15/2015 5:20:39 PM EDT
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I didn't know trout could get teh beetus..... Poor thing already lost both its feet, even. |
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Posted: 1/15/2015 11:38:37 PM EDT
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Not as big as that guy's fish, but I'll bet I had as much fun watching her catch it as he had catching his. 3 years old, her first fish-I couldn't resist putting it on the wall for her.
She caught it by herself, we each got 2 that day. She helped me eat the rest.  " />
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Posted: 1/15/2015 11:50:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This was actually just off screen http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/92/MotorCart.jpg/300px-MotorCart.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Wonder if that big boy put up a fight or was too lazy. This was actually just off screen http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/92/MotorCart.jpg/300px-MotorCart.jpg It may be a fake, but it may not be.My uncle has a cabin on Swan Lake outside Keewatin, MN. This lake produces huge northerns and walleyes, though not in huge numbers, necessarily. On his cabin wall is a northern pike that looks just like this rainbow does. It weighed 39lb. and is massive for the length. It got that big because in that lake, pike just hang out below a high-fat fish species called tullibees, which are like white fish, and when they are hungry, they just reach up, grab a tullibee and eat. All that doesn't turn to fat; most of it gets converted to muscle, as most fish are very lean, especially as compared to some human Walmartian. Some fish just have life figured out to be really easy.
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Posted: 1/15/2015 11:55:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: reminds me of a morbidly obese something Like this? Arnold's head is pretty small, too.  |
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Posted: 1/16/2015 12:08:58 AM EDT
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They both look oddly alike - minus the ripped sweats.
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Posted: 1/16/2015 12:14:40 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It's steelhead, which is a sea-run rainbow and it got fat in the Pacific.. Wild fish with the adipose fin have to be released whereas hatchery fish have the adipose fin cut before they are released as young fish. I used to live in the area where this fish was caught in the Clearwater River system. |
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Posted: 1/16/2015 12:16:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Wasn't me I swear If you'd like to know how a fish gets that big here is my "theory" The Clearwater is famous for its "B Run Steelhead" which are essential Rainbow Trout that go to the ocean. These fish can regularly exceed 15lbs with some going over 20lbs. A Steelhead is shaped differently than this fish so I know it did not go to the ocean. The steelhead, like salmon, come back to the river they were born in to spawn, what I believed happen was this fish was born in the Clearwater and then did not journey to the ocean as a Smolt. The fish lived it's life as a resident Rainbow trout and gorged itself on Salmon and Steelhead eggs while they were spawning. Combined with it's diet and genetics that could make it a big ass fish (scientifically speaking) its grew to a monster. The reason he could not keep the fish was in Idaho in streams that have Steelhead present, any Rainbow Trout over 20" is classified as a Steelhead and cannot be kept unless they have a clipped adipose fin (fin in front of the tail along its back). I have seen these footballs in the Clearwater before, but never caught one myself Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: IdahoJohnny has really let himself go. Wasn't me I swear If you'd like to know how a fish gets that big here is my "theory" The Clearwater is famous for its "B Run Steelhead" which are essential Rainbow Trout that go to the ocean. These fish can regularly exceed 15lbs with some going over 20lbs. A Steelhead is shaped differently than this fish so I know it did not go to the ocean. The steelhead, like salmon, come back to the river they were born in to spawn, what I believed happen was this fish was born in the Clearwater and then did not journey to the ocean as a Smolt. The fish lived it's life as a resident Rainbow trout and gorged itself on Salmon and Steelhead eggs while they were spawning. Combined with it's diet and genetics that could make it a big ass fish (scientifically speaking) its grew to a monster. The reason he could not keep the fish was in Idaho in streams that have Steelhead present, any Rainbow Trout over 20" is classified as a Steelhead and cannot be kept unless they have a clipped adipose fin (fin in front of the tail along its back). I have seen these footballs in the Clearwater before, but never caught one myself |
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Posted: 1/16/2015 12:17:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not as big as that guy's fish, but I'll bet I had as much fun watching her catch it as he had catching his. 3 years old, her first fish-I couldn't resist putting it on the wall for her. She caught it by herself, we each got 2 that day. She helped me eat the rest. http://<a href=http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh32/R-Shack/DSCN0661.jpg</a>" /> That's awesome! I can't wait to take my daughter fishing.
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Posted: 1/16/2015 12:21:23 AM EDT
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Don't know about ID Fish and Game but here in Oregon they release the brooder fish now and then. Clean out the old stock and replace them with younger more virile fish. That looks a lot like the brooders they have down here though I have never seen one that large. Lots in the 10-15lb range. I could just see a hatchery letting that thing go wondering when someone would catch it. Now it seems someone will have another chance.
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