"When you hook a fish, you yell, 'Fish On!' so everyone will get out of your way," he explains. "Fortunately, the streams at the ranch aren't crowded so we don't have to yell - except for the excitement and joy we have every time we hook up with that beautiful five-pound rainbow trout."

Jerry's love of the pastime is evidenced in the fishing motif found throughout much of the home's decor. A glass-topped coffee table provides a translucent view of a fisherman casting his fly rod on the lower shelf. Jerry says granite countertops from Russia create the illusion of "looking into the bottom of a trout stream." Ceramic tiles surrounding the kitchen work areas are inlaid with images of fish.

Furnishings throughout the home are a combination of lodgepole pine pieces by Old Hickory Furniture Company and others by Chad Koske of Working Horse Log Homes in Centennial. A variety of wildlife and fishing prints and statues, including a copy of a Remington bronze, complete the decor.

The home sports two fireplaces, both built of river rock from the property and bearing mantels inscribed with Fish On Ranch. A fireplace in the screened porch helps extend enjoyment of the Montana landscape when the sun slips behind the Snowy Range and long shadows cool the evening mountain air.