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Video: Trail cam catches mountain lion fishing

This image, taken from a homeowner association's surveillance video, shows a mountain lion fishing for trout near Seeley Lake. (courtesy)
This image, taken from a homeowner association's surveillance video, shows a mountain lion fishing for trout near Seeley Lake. (courtesy)

WILDLIFE -- Mountain lions are resourceful in living off the land.  As the Missoulian reports, a remote camera tended by a homeowner's association outside of Missoula captured footage of a cougar fishing... and then succeeding -- near the Blackfoot River, as you'll see in these two short video sequences:



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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