by Merle Ann Loman | Apr 6, 2012 | Bitterroot, i Spring
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| Wearing wool and gloves, they still enjoyed the fishing |
The last few days in the Bitterroot have been below 50 degrees. Cooler temperatures don’t do much for the bugs or hatches but if you are hardy enough, you still hook some trout. Thank Jim, John, Gary and Ric. Hope it is warmer in California. Jack and Nick really enjoyed fishing with you all.
by Merle Ann Loman | Mar 28, 2012 | Bitterroot, Friends, i Spring
Jack and Jeff always do this stretch of the river in late March as an annual trip. This starts their fishing season off and helps them get caught up after a long winter. It was a nice day overall, except for someone doing some kind of control burn on the bank…but the company and the fishing were both good.
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| Jeff with a trout |
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| trout, duh |
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| Questionable air quality. Someone is burning a pile near the bank. |
by Merle Ann Loman | Aug 30, 2011 | Blackfoot, ii Summer
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| Dr. Fauci with a trout from the Blackfoot River |
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci MD, director of
NIAID for the NIH since the early 80’s, spoke August 11, 2011 at the Performing
Arts Center in Hamilton, Montana just 50 miles south of Missoula. The Division
of Intramural Research (DIR) is a branch of the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and more than 20% of DIR’s research is
conducted in western Montana at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in
Hamilton.
When Dr, Fauci came to visit, he also
got to fish. Marshall Bloom, associate director of RML, set up an afternoon of
fishing with Jack Mauer, fly fishing outfitter for Wapiti Waters in the
Bitterroot. This is the second time in the last few years that Fauci explored
western Montana rivers with Bloom. Fauci knows that the beautiful Bitterroot
and surrounding areas are parts of the draw for RML’s talented scientists. He
wanted to see some of it for himself. In fact he said to the Journal of Clinical
Investigation (JCI) that “over the
last 20–25 years, the potential liabilities of the physical separation between
RML and Bethesda have morphed into assets, where the beauty of western Montana and
the collegial working environment couple with state-of-the-art facilities to
make RML highly attractive to world-class researchers and an integral part of
the DIR.”
Read more about Tony Fauci at the Director’s Page on the NIAID website. He has
dedicated his career in public health to becoming a top 10 expert in the world
about AIDS policy and research His research in includes learning more about the
understanding of how HIV destroys the body’s defenses leading to the
progression to AIDS. You can read more by visiting Anthony Fauci’s biography on Wikipedia.com.
by Merle Ann Loman | Aug 13, 2011 | Bitterroot, ii Summer
Jim and Naomi are fishing three rivers again this year, the Bitterroot (pictured here), the Big Hole and the Blackfoot. We will try to post the other two rivers soon, in August. Stay tuned because they always catch spectacular fish.
Here are more photos of trout – of course caught by the Shields!
This is a slideshow of Jack getting the raft over debris/hazard while Jim and Naomi were out of the boat. Thanks Naomi for taking the photos! Jack is pulling and pushing the raft over a downed cottonwood. Thank goodness it wasn’t too big. Good job Jack. You didn’t even lose your hat or sunglasses.
by Merle Ann Loman | Aug 12, 2011 | Big Hole, ii Summer, Take Your Kids Fishing
Daniel and Leslie fished with Wapiti Waters on August 1. Woody Hayward was their guide. They were nice enough to send us these photos. The are from Wisconsin and were in Montana on a father/daughter trip. Leslie enjoyed fishing so much, she now wants her own gear. Dan is delighted. He is looking forward to more fishing and quality time with his daughter.
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| Woody working on the boat with Leslie looking on. |
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| Leslie at lunch, Woody walking up from the river. |
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| Sweet little trout! |
Thanks Leslie and Daniel for fishing with Wapiti Waters. Hope we see you both again soon.
