Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast with Tom Rosenbauer, bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most from your time on the water.

Here's acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing

enthusiasts Tom Rosenbauer.

Hi this is Tom Rosenbauer and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. We're not in our usual studio, we're not using our

usual microphone today because we have a really urgent announcement to get out to

all of our podcast listeners. We all have an important and timely and urgent

opportunity to make our opinions known about the proposed pebble mine in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska.

And I'm going to read you a couple of URLs here which you should take down. So you want to pause the podcast and go get a piece of paper

take these take these URLs down.

First of all,

www that Orvis News.com slash Protect Bristol Bay, one word,

dot ASPX.

And then there's a box that says take action, which will take you to a very easy form to fill out.

It'll take you all of about 40 seconds and your opinions on the subject will go directly to your state representatives.

So here it is again

W. w. w.org. com slash protect protect

Bristol bay dot ASPX and we have a very special guest today.

We have Tim Bristol who is Alaska Program Director for Trout Unlimited.

Tim, welcome.

Thank you.

Appreciate it. You're there all the way from Juneo, Alaska on the podcast today.

And I'm going to let you do the talking because you can fill people in on why this is so important,

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