Brown

essays and musings on fly fishing for native trout

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When to Catch and Keep?

June 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Bob Kingston lands, kills and plans to have mounted a 35″ brown he caught from the Big Hole River in Montana. Is there a size in your mind at which you would ever think of keeping a trophy trout (or any fish for that matter, knowing that each species would have a different size making it a “trophy” fish)?

Feeling Blue About the Brown Season

April 25, 2009 ⋅ 12 comments

Feeling blue about the brown water as I’m waiting for the flood waters to recede.

Tagged Fish – They Aren’t Playing Hide and Seek

October 8, 2008 ⋅ 9 comments

During my fishing two weeks ago I caught a tagged fish. Out of curiosity I emailed the director of the National Aquatic Monitoring Center (he lives and works in my hometown) to see if he knew what the tag was about. He sent my email on to Gary Thiede, a fishery biologist at our local [...]