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May 8th, 2012 by Patrick Konoske | 4 Comments

Laying around on my hard drive...from an Alaska fly fishing forum:

Did you (or anyone else) happen to notice a beige plastic fly box on Quartz that weekend of Oct 13th? I last saw mine near the mouth at the lake (on the left side bank) up in the weeds that Wednesday the 10th and noticed it missing when I got back to the car at the bridge. If found please call Dan. It's full of ugly streamers that don't catch fish.”

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April 16th, 2012 by Patrick Konoske | Leave a comment

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[caption id="attachment_5653" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Photo by B.O'Keefe"]

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October 21st, 2011 by Patrick Konoske | Leave a comment

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[caption id="attachment_4989" align="alignleft" width="600" caption="Sun Setting Over Douglas Island (West of Juneau)."][/caption]

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