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The Widow’s Pool

Pay-and-fish in brook trout heaven

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Lillian Hackett Hanson Culver’s ranch and fishery at Picnic Springs, Centennial Valley, Mont., 1913. Small cabins seen in background were used as overnight guest quarters for visiting fishermen. Photo courtesy terry and gayle hansonLillian Hackett Hanson Culver, age 84, with her only son, Fred I. Hanson, at her home at Picnic Springs, 1934. Photo courtesy terry and gayle hansonPicnic Springs, June 12, 1913: While the fishermen are unknown, the fish appear to be rainbow trout from an earlier stocking of steelhead/rainbow trout fingerlings. Photo courtesy terry and gayle hanson
Culver Pond, a.k.a. The Widow’s Pool, as it looks now.
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