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The water located immediately downstream from a hydraulic structure, such as a dam, bridge, or culvert..
Like the more renowned Missouri and Henry’s Fork of Montana and Idaho, it is a tailwater fishery; that is, it owes its remarkable fecundity and its population of big wild trout to the cold-water outflow of reservoir impoundment.
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Tail water means The water located immediately downstream from a hydraulic structure, such as a dam, bridge, or culvert..
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Like the more renowned Missouri and Henry’s Fork of Montana and Idaho, it is a tailwater fishery; that is, it owes its remarkable fecundity and its population of big wild trout to the cold-water outflow of reservoir impoundment.
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