Drake Whitlock with a typical Missouri River brown trout, September 1, 2009 (click for larger view).

What do fishing guides do on their time off? They go fishing, of course! Altamont Anglers' father/son team, Drake and Teo Whitlock, enjoyed a "busman's holiday" of sorts, joining Tim Fischer for an assault on the Missouri River. Camping on the banks of Big Mo, in Craig, MT. provided a perfect base of operation for a week of exploring and enjoying the fantastic fishery first explored by Lewis & Clark and famous for it's "hot" rainbow trout.

The intrepid trio took a short time to "break the code" on how the river works, but enjoyed its bounty of brown and rainbow trout from then on. To see an album of trouty photos, including a picture of Uncle Joe's famous collection of brassiers, click here. You can enjoy the same photo album as part of an interactive map of the Missouri River (so you'll know where to fish when you go) by clicking here. Or see the slideshow by clicking here.

 

Tim Fischer with big brown trout, September 9, 2009 (click image for larger view).

After putting Drake on a plane for home on September 2, Tim and Teo headed north towards Calgary, Canada to explore the fishing on the Bow River, with plans to return to the states the following week for more exploratory missions in Montana. They sent the following photos on September 10, taken on "a secret, remote Montana tailwater".

Click the thumbnail images below for larger views of nice browns on a secret Montana tailwater: