Are Montana's Trout in Trouble? With Pat Byorth

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

Bass, Fishing, Bonefish, Wilderness, Flyfishing, Trout, How To, Steelhead, Bluegill, Fly, Orvis, Sports, Salmon, Panfish, Education, Rosenbauer

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

This week we continue our exploration of Trout in Trouble, specifically in Montana. Pat Byorth [52:56], Montana Fish Commissioner [52:56], and I discuss the current decline of brown trout in southwest Montana, what you should do if you fish there during this hot, low-water year, and what the future may hold. He'll give some good advice on being a responsible angler during this tough period.

In the Fly Box this week, we have some great questions, comments, and tips, including:
Not all Scandinavians hold their rods high when playing fish
What can I do to find trout in pools in big rivers?
Whay would a trout refuse my size 14 mayfly and then take a stonefly nymph?
Why is my back cast dropping?
A tip for making copper tungsten beads into matte gray beads with a lighter
How do I teach kids how to cast a nymph rig?
Why do my Elk Hair Caddis flies only float briefly?
What is the best way to renew a dry fly tied with snowshoe rabbit fur?
Some tips for a listener who had trouble mending line
How often should I fish with a guide and how often should I fish alone if I want to learn more?
Where is there no zonked gray squirrel available?
How do I repair streamers where the coneheads, beads, or dumbbell eyes twist after a few uses?
Why did I use five bluefish in a row?
Can you fish tandem streamers?
A listener corrects my physics knowledge
How can I fish nymphs on a day so windy it blows my indicator downstream?
A tip from a listener on using Euro nymphing techniques with an indicator.
Is there a standard for hook wire gauge so I can determine when a clinch knot won't work?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast. This is your host Tom Rosenbauer, and
0:14.1	my guest for today is Pat Byorth, who is the Fish and Wildlife Commissioner for District
0:20.8	2 in Montana. And we've been talking a lot on the podcast lately about water temperature
0:27.8	and trout, and I apologize, but we're going to continue to talk about it because we're
0:34.7	in a fairly severe drought and heat wave in most parts of the country, and we need to fish
0:42.4	a lot more responsibly, and especially to handle fish a lot more responsibly. So we're going
0:48.3	to be talking specifically about Montana, but the same things that Pat talks about can
0:54.3	apply to most of the states in the lower 48, and some Canadian provinces this year. So I hope
1:02.8	you enjoy it. There's some interesting stuff there, and it's not all bad news. And then you've
1:11.9	asked me to recommend some books, maybe some books that aren't on your radar screen, aren't
1:18.4	terribly popular today, or that you just might have missed that I'd recommend. And of course, take
1:25.0	these with a grain of salt. These are only books that I've enjoyed, and I've learned a lot from,
1:30.3	but I'll give you a couple today. One of them is called What the Trout Said by Dataist
1:37.7	Proper, P-R-O-P-E-R, The Late Dataist Proper, and he was a brilliant trout angler and a very geeky
1:48.1	trout angler, and if you're into the really geeky aspects of how trout behave and why they feed,
1:57.7	and what they feed on, and the hook and qualities of up-I versus straight-I versus down-I hooks,
2:06.1	and all sorts of arcane subjects like that. His book is a good read. Now I think it's out of print,
2:13.6	and so you may have to find a used copy, and I checked, and some of them are fairly expensive,
2:19.6	so that's one to maybe just keep an eye out for and use bookshelves, because it's well worth reading,
2:26.4	and one of my favorites. Another one is one that's currently available, published by Stackpool,
2:34.8	and that one is called What Trout Want by Bob Wyatt. Bob lives in New Zealand. I don't know Bob.
2:41.7	I wish I did. I hope to meet him someday, because he sounds like a great angler and a very thoughtful
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