My guest this week is Daniel Ritz, who ml recently completed the Master Caster level of the Western Native Trout Challenge. We talk about how he did it, what flies worked, and had a lot of discussion about what actually counts as a subspecies of trout. If . . .
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Podcast: David Brooks on Saving Water for Trout
In this week’s podcast, my guest is David Brooks, executive director of Montana Trout Unlimited. With prevailing drought conditions in the western United Sates and increased demand from many users–from agriculture to municipalities to . . .
Read MorePodcast: Sascha Danylchuk on Species-Specific Release Techniques
This week my guest is Sascha Clark Danylchuk, executive director of Keepfishwet.org and a fish biologist who has intensively studied the science of releasing fish in a responsible manner. We’ve talked a lot about trout lately in the podcast, so this one . . .
Read MorePodcast: Author John McPhee and His Favorite Fish
This week’s podcast guest is especially exciting to me, as he is one of my literary heroes. John McPhee is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author (Annals of the Former World, 1999), and in his numerous other books, he . . .
Read MorePodcast: Amelia Jensen on Lowering Fish Mortality with Better Photo Techniques
This week my guest is the great Amelia Jensen, one of the best trout anglers in the world and also a superb videographer. Our topic is one that is top of mind to a lot of people in the fly-fishing world this summer: . . .
Read MorePodcast: Late Summer Smallmouth Tips, with Colby Trow
This week, my guest is Colby Trow of Mossy Creek Fly Fishing–in Harrisonburg, Virginia–one of the best smallmouth bass anglers I know. Colby talks about successful techniques for chasing these critters in . . .
Read MorePodcast: A Case for the Fly Fishing Life, with David Coggins
This week, my guest is David Coggins, author of the new book The Optimist, A Case for the Fly Fishing Life. David is a traditionalist and I give him some good-natured ribbing about being an anachronism, but . . .
Read MorePodcast: How To Find Great Carp Fishing
In our campaign to take pressure off our over-stressed trout rivers during this hot, dry summer, I figured a great topic would be how to find carp-fishing spots. Not every place that holds carp . . .
Read MorePodcast: Are Montana’s Trout in Trouble? with Pat Byorth
This week we continue our exploration of Trout in Trouble, specifically in Montana. Pat Byorth–a fisheries biologist, Director of Montana Water for TU, and Montana Fish Commissioner–and I discuss the . . .
Read MorePodcast: How do water temperatures affect trout behavior? with John McMillan
This week I am delighted to have biologist John McMillan back as my guest. John gives us a detailed view on the affect of water temperature on a trout’s metabolism, particularly at the upper end of their safe range. . . .
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