Great news! You can now listen to our interview with Brian Chan on a biologist’s point of view on fly fishing trout lakes. I interviewed Brian this week and the show was a huge hit. A lot of listeners sent in their questions, but since the show was only about 90 minutes, Brian wasn’t able to answer everything. Well, don’t you worry because we’ve scheduled a part two of the interview and we will try to fit in all your questions.
A fisheries biologist is well-versed with the ways of the trout and how and where to catch them. Brian spent his career managing recreational trout fisheries, worked on habitat protection and management plans for various lakes.
He said that trout are usually present in eutrophic lakes. These are lakes that are shallow and us and usually have intermittent or no inlets or outlets, which means that they have low flushing rates. The soils and geology around it make them nutrient-rich so that they grow insects for fish.
Brian talked about several other topics including alkaline and acidic lakes, spring and winter turnovers, thermocline, the main food sources for trout, and a lot of other stuff.
Listen to the show now and be surprised at how much scientific knowledge you will get from Brian. Enjoy!
I interviewed Bruce Chard this week on the show Persuading Permit and it was a big hit. Permit are one of the top, if not the top, gamefish sought after by fly fishers. They are smart, temperamental and elusive. In this interview Bruce explains how you can get more hookups and more fish to the [...]
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The monoMASTER™, a waste monofilament storage device, seems like it’s just what we need to help keep our rivers, streams and lakes free of all the monofilament line we cut off while fly fishing.
Here’s the description of the product straight from the manufacturer:
The monoMaster is an innovative new fishing tool that is a Must Have [...]
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Davy Wotton really shined on our show last night. He knows the White River in Arkansas better than the back of his hand. What impressed me about this river system is how much fishable water there is – over 90 miles. The White River can be fished 365 days a year; however, the thing you [...]
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The Fly Boys have hit a home run with their DVD Raising the Ghost. It made me reminisce, it made me laugh and it brought a tear to my eye. Steelhead one of the most sought after and illusive trophies to be caught on a fly are in serious danger of becoming extinct. Raising the [...]
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Your access rights, as an angler, to streams and rivers can be quite different depending on where you live in the world. In the United States it’s varies from state to state and in Europe each country.
In England much of the water is private, which means paying every time you go fishing – from [...]
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The Ask About Fly Fishing Blog is now up and running and ready for your comments.
So what is this blog about? What do we intend to achieve?
We’re starting a conversation of worldwide scope touching fly fishers everywhere. This sport has participants in almost every country in the world and they all have one thing in [...]
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