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Farming fish: Hamilton couple continues operation of Bitterroot Fish Hatchery

As Becky Brandborg eases her net into one of the giant rectangular concrete water tanks behind her home, she braces herself and turns her head as far as she can. She knows what’s coming – she still has her jacket on.

The water boils and churns violently, throwing a spray across the room, and suddenly she has five 15-inch rainbow trout thrashing and twisting in her net.

"In this line of work you get splashed every day," she says as she drops the fish back in the tank.

These are just a few of the nearly 50,000 rainbows that Becky and her husband Dan will deliver to private pond owners all over western Montana this spring and summer. The couple have owned and operated the Bitterroot Fish Hatchery http://www.brandborg.com/ since 1996, located on a bucolic spring-fed ranch southeast of Hamilton near Skalkaho Creek.

By DAVID ERICKSON – Ravalli Republic

Full Story: http://www.ravallirepublic.com/news/local/article_7b26f68a-7df9-11e1-b3da-001a4bcf887a.html

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