Brown Trout | A Montana Fly Fishing Blog with Wapiti Waters and Jack Mauer

Fly Fishing on the Bitterroot River in June

by Merle Ann Loman | Jul 4, 2009 | Bitterroot, ii Summer

Dave Shobe recently sent us these photos. They were taken on the Bitterroot in mid-June when the Keith Oden group was fishing with us. See the slideshow below for all 3 photos.

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Peter Rein Revisited, Fly Fishing the Bitterroot River

by Merle Ann Loman | Jul 2, 2009 | Bitterroot, ii Summer

Peter fished with us years ago, in the late 1990’s, with his family and we often thought of him. Recently, he called to say he never forgot us either and was coming to Montana, did we have some time for him. The answer was yes!

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Fly Fishing the Big Hole River with Jeremy and Becky Anderson

by Merle Ann Loman | Jun 23, 2009 | Big Hole, Conservation/benefits/organizations, ii Summer

Jeremy and Becky Anderson went to the Bitterroot Trout Unlimited Annual Banquet last September. They had a great time and won the bid on a fishing trip with Wapiti Waters. Today was the day and boy, did they catch fish! Next years BRTU Banquet is Friday, September 25 – 2009 Annual BRTU Banquet, 5:30 pm, our 30th!!! Mark your calendar and plan to attend. Visit BRTU’s site at http://www.brtu.org/

Jeremy sent these terrific photos with this note:

Jack,

Thank you for a great time fishing on Saturday. Becky and I enjoyed it and learned a lot. We will definitely be coming back for more. Here are some pics for your website.

Thanks again,

Jeremy Anderson

Thank you, Jeremy and Becky. Jack really enjoyed his day with both of you.

See the slideshow below for all four photos from the Big Hole River fly fishing day.

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Fly Fishing the Missouri River with Marshall Knick

by Merle Ann Loman | May 18, 2009 | i Spring, Missouri, Take Your Kids Fishing

Jack fished the Missouri River with his son-in-law, Marshall Knick. It was coming up, the water was a bit cloudy but the managed to hook some fish. Jack caught this fish and Marshall is holding it. Josh Lauer has a photo of Marshall and the bigger brown that he caught. When Josh sends it to us, I will post it, too.

I had to include photos of Jack’s daughter, Hannah – of course married to Marshall, and their son’s Tristen and Tait!

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Fly Fishing on the Rise – of the Bitterroot River

by Merle Ann Loman | Apr 23, 2009 | Bitterroot, i Spring

Jack and I float fished the Bitterroot a few days ago. We caught fish, but it was a bit “off.” The water was slightly turbid and it seemed to be rising. Well, it was! It went up nearly 300 cubic feet per second (CFS) that day to become 2000 CFS in the middle-river. Today it looks like it will reach 4000 CFS. It is warm and they are expecting rain.

We caught fish, mostly in the afternoon during a mayfly hatch and the birds were extremely active. I ended up taking about 500 photos of fish we caught, scenery of course, our puppy, flowers, Hooded Mergansers, Osprey, geese, mayfies and more. Consequently, I am really busy editing them and haven’t done a post recently. Today I will post a few teaser photos. I will do more and a slideshow as soon as I can.