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How volunteers changed the future of trout in Arkansas rivers

NORFORK — Dreams are coming true on two Arkansas tailwaters almost daily.

Fishermen are catching big Bonneville cutthroat trout. They are beautiful, strong vibrant fish hatched from the stream beds of the Norfork and White Rivers from eggs harvested in Wyoming.

Perhaps they aren't anything other than cutthroats to most of the anglers, but they are reasons to smile for those who participated in what many thought was a highly ambitious project five years ago on two of the famous Ozark tailwaters.

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Conservation groups worked in July 2012 to introduce the Bonneville Cutthroat Trout into the Norfork River.