Have you ever thought about that urban stream that's flowing right near your home right now?

As water runs off the street and into the creek, what happens next?

Who's looking after the creek and who's protecting those fish species that are inhabiting those areas?

Today you're going to get an inside view of a watershed council that is protecting their basin on a large scale. And we're going to talk about how this all ties into the smallmouth bass trip and giveaway we're doing right now. So you know a little bit more about how to protect your own streams and how to get involved in this big trip. This is the webfly swing podcast where I showed the best places to travel to for fly fishing. how to find the best resources and tools to prepare for that big trip and what you can do to give back to the fish

species we all love. Hey, I'm Dave, host of the Wefly Swing podcast. I've been fly fishing since I was a

little kid. I grew up around a little fly shop and have created one of the largest fly fishing

podcast in this country. I've also interviewed more of the greatest fly anglers and conservationists than just about anyone out there.

Belinda Fries and Rick Lawson from the Huron River Watershed Council are here to shed light on the work they're doing to protect one of the biggest and most important rivers in the Michigan area of the Great Lakes.

You're going to find out today what forever chemicals are and what they are doing to help

protect these chemicals from getting into our streams.

You're going to find out what the stonefly search is all about and how this is helping to prepare

some of the work they're doing out in their area.

And you're also going to get a little bit of hope. Actually, a lot of hope into looking at the future. We've talked a lot about this on the podcast. There's definitely some ups and downs and species populations. But today we're going to be talking about a few in this area, and you're going to get some good direction moving forward. Plus did I mention it?

We're going to be giving away a trip to Schultz Outfitters. And if you want to get involved in this trip, you can do it. We'll talk about that at the end. Definitely pumped to get into the Detroit area, putting Detroit on the map, the Huron River. This is going to be awesome. So let's give it back to another great organization. Here we go. Rick Lawson and Belinda Fries from hrwc.org.

How are you both doing?

Doing great, Dave.

Awesome.

It's a beautiful day.

Nice, nice.

We are in the midst of our, you know, we're calling this our Smallmouth Bass giveaway.

We're doing a big trip out

with Schultz outfitters and the trip will actually be in July next year but we're doing a

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