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How trout successfully climb the falls - Photo #11

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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.

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