February 2026

Meeting will be held virtually on February 23rd because many board members are “snowbirds.”

We need some additional help at our Great Waters Fly Fishing Expo booth, March 13th  – 15th! If you can help anytime during the Expo, please contact the Club’s Financial Secretary, Dean Wellman at pwellman@cheqnet.com. For more information about the Expo, click on Expo.

Now is the time to renew your annual Brule River Sportsmen Club membership! If you wish, you can use our online store to renew your membership, make donations, and purchase any merchandise. Just click on Club Store. The online store allows you to pay online via PayPal or to print off a form and renew by…

As Brule River Sportsmen’s Club board members, we sometime wonder how our past scholarship recipients are doing, especially considering the highly competitive natural resources job market. In 2014, we added a page to our website under the “Club Scholarship” tab called “Where Are They Now” to report on the lives and careers of past recipients…

Spawning habitat partitioning can be important for maintaining sympatric fish species. Likewise, critical spawning habitat loss may challenge the long-term persistence of sympatric fish species. Two of our recent College Scholarship recipients, Ben Schleppenbach and Danny McCann, just published a paper about how the Brule’s trout and salmon partition spawning habitat in the river. To…

Many anglers in the western U.S. are snagged in an ethical dilemma brought on by a warming climate: When the trout you’re fishing need cold water, and cold water is increasingly scarce, how and when should you fish? Click on, Too Hot to read about the problem in Montana.