Why some anglers are rethinking their approach to fly fishing

Why some anglers are rethinking their approach to fly fishing

Source: npr

8/31/2024

Credit: Jonny Armstrong/U.S. Geological Survey

In the early season, when the rivers are still running high and cool from snowmelt, KynsLee Scott loves trout fishing. As a fishing guide and conservationist, her life revolves around it, she says, standing in the shade of tall pines on the banks of the Blackfoot River.

Lately though, she says with a pause, “It’s been harder to love, simply because of the changed environment.”

Scott is an angler — one of many in the western U.S. — snagged in an ethical dilemma brought on by the “absolutely alarming” shifts she’s seen with a warming climate: When the trout you’re fishing need cold water, and cold water is increasingly scarce, how and when should you fish?

Blackfoot River

Trout, Bull

Trout, Westslope Cutthroat

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