I met guide Randy Ouellette, the Swift River Ghillie, in a no name parking lot on the border of the White Mountain National Forest.
We were going into an unknown pond that Randy had found on one of his exploratory trips in search of wild native brook trout. The unicorn of the brook trout angling fraternity.
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