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Episode: John Rowen — Finding surprises after a lifetime of fishing
Description: “You go fishing and there’s an infinite possibility for surprise,” says Guilderland angler John Rowen.He’s fished trout streams in Rensselaer County that are no wider than a driveway and found 17-inch trout in them, “which is crazy,” he says with glee.Rowen was fishing once after a tropical storm blew through the area and caught a beautiful rainbow trout. Another time, he was fishing when, he recalled, “All of a sudden, the stream bottom started to move and I looked closer … There was a snapping turtle about 15 feet upstream from where I was that was about the si...