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Thursday
Oct062011

Vintage Chum

I can't get enough Ken Burns and have been soaking up his most recent project - Prohibition.  Who knew that Capone was a trend setter with his choice of fishing apparel.

Monday
Sep122011

Sept. SOTM Entry: MT Brown

 

I'm speechless.  This is best left said for the man himself...

This fish means a lot to me. I caught it the other day at my own bachelor party (note the classy bachelor party issue wife-beater, which each of us were wearing at the time) while being rowed by good friend Adam Debruin. At first jolt I yelled  “trout” and then started to doubt the troutiness, thinking I perhaps snagged a pike. I took the wood to it really hard, and brought it to the surface about 20 feet from the boat. We both saw it’s massive tail and then the whole of it’s body and a string of obscenities were yelled so as to be heard by the other boat in our group that was fishing the other side of the river from us. This fish brawled hard and I finally brought it boat-side and Adam netted it on the first try. We quickly pulled over and snapped a few pics, took a quick measurement (33” and we figure around 15+ lbs.) and released into cold water. No shit, this fish’s adipose fin was as big as my hand, and it’s other fins were like sheets of paper. It was barely hooked inside of the mouth. 3 seasoned trout guides and one fisheries biologist stood there completely impressed and fairly certain that we will never see a Montana brown trout like this again.  When we reached the take out we were so belligerently drunk that we fell out of the boat, fell on and destroyed a cooler and Adam got a serious gash on his face from the gunwale.  Photo Cred: Will Plumhoff.

Monday
Aug152011

Paul MacLean in Helena 

The true story of Paul MacLean's life differs somewhat from the one that appeared in his brother's book, A River Runs Through It. An article that appeared in the Helena Independent Record back in 2000 chronicles the true story of Paul MacLean's life and death.

LINK

Tuesday
May242011

Alaska's largest lake trout and steelhead

A story about Alaskas's largest lake trout and steelhead landed by a couple of young anglers.

The memory of the monster of Clarence Lake remains as vivid for Daniel Thorsness today as the stillness of the clear, foggy morning 32 years ago when he hauled ashore a lake trout as big as a king salmon.

Biologists who study lake trout in the state say they've never even encountered a fish close to the size of the 47-pound monster that Thorsness pulled out of a relatively small, wilderness lake nearly 3,000-feet high in the Talkeetna Mountains.

LINK (Via: The Anchorage Daily News)
Thursday
Apr142011

Uh Lewis - hand me a spool of 2x would you...

...actually, make that 0x - these fish ain't that smart.

Ever wonder how much railing would occur if these two dudes were into fishing?  Well, wonder no longer - Undaunted Anglers walks you through it...

Tuesday
Mar082011

The U.B. Frog Harness

"THE most practical, scientific and universally satisfactory live bait harness ever invented."

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