LuckyMike
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Years ago I mounted a Brown trout that weighed 27lbs-15oz for a fellow named Don Grover. Don was fishing in the Missouri River below Canyon Ferry Dam on February 22, 1972 with his friend Carl Blankenship. While trolling a Rapala along a steep cliffy embankment Don hooked the huge Brown weighing 1oz shy of 28-pounds!
These pictures show Don (shorter) and Carl (taller) with Don’s trophy of a lifetime. The more recent pictures are of the huge Brown after I did some free gratis renovation work on the mount for my friend and barber, Don’s son. My goal was to fix up this mount of a truly remarkable fish well enough so that it can be viewed and enjoyed by others for another 40 to 50-years. To the best of my knowledge, Don Grover’s Brown Trout is still today, the second largest ever caught in Montana.
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The mount now hangs in the Barber Shop on Last Chance Gulch in Helena, Montana.
These pictures show Don (shorter) and Carl (taller) with Don’s trophy of a lifetime. The more recent pictures are of the huge Brown after I did some free gratis renovation work on the mount for my friend and barber, Don’s son. My goal was to fix up this mount of a truly remarkable fish well enough so that it can be viewed and enjoyed by others for another 40 to 50-years. To the best of my knowledge, Don Grover’s Brown Trout is still today, the second largest ever caught in Montana.
![Scan_20140520.jpg Scan_20140520.jpg](https://www.hunttalk.com/data/attachments/25/25872-64f44a64fff122aca708e52ae45765ff.jpg)
![DSC01574 (2).jpg DSC01574 (2).jpg](https://www.hunttalk.com/data/attachments/25/25873-e03b070916ddc553cff7102a2fbd0bcb.jpg)
![007.jpg 007.jpg](https://www.hunttalk.com/data/attachments/25/25874-852b759fc9655bfb0cbd8fc28c3b740a.jpg)
![008.jpg 008.jpg](https://www.hunttalk.com/data/attachments/25/25875-82bb9bd728692ade59ee6341cd75b80a.jpg)
The mount now hangs in the Barber Shop on Last Chance Gulch in Helena, Montana.