Montana Fun On The Water

I teamed up with a good friend of mine name Matt Piippo a couple days ago for a little fishing over on his side of Montana. We started off the day catching browns and cutthroats from a beautiful stream. Matt doesn't spend a ton of time fishing. We actually met through our common interest in predator hunting. In fact he is basically Les Johnson's right hand man from Predator Quest. Matt is also a big ol' boy, but has a solid gold heart twice the size of Montana, maybe bigger. All I know is we had a great time. Here are a few fish from the morning.

Me with a fat little brownie.
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Matt with a chunky little cutthroat.
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In the middle of the day we took a break and went bass fishing. It resulted in me catching my best Montana bass ever. You can read more about it in another thread, but it sure made my day.
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I also caught my first squawfish. While I know it's considered a trash fish in Montana I always enjoy catching something I've never caught before.
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At the end of the day we hit the creek again.
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Matt pretty much handed me my lunch for size of fish the second half of the day. Matt is a big dude at around 6'4" or so and over 300 lbs, he even makes this 16-17" brown look like a minnow. I didn't post all the fish we caught, but we had decent fish action all day. It was a great day spent with an even better friend. It is very good therapy for the mind as well.
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