On a recent trip, Scott Gerlt of Mid-Missouri Trout Unlimited and I floated a roughly five-mile stretch of the river. In about six hours of strictly fly fishing, we must have landed 40 trout.

On a recent trip, Scott Gerlt of Mid-Missouri Trout Unlimited and I floated a roughly five-mile stretch of the river. In about six hours of fly-fishing, we must have landed 40 trout.

Did a float trip with C.W. Gusewelle on the Niangua help equip The Star’s reporter to lead an expedition along Russia’s Lena River? Charles Hammer likes to think so.

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