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🗓️ 3 December 2019
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Imagine an undiscovered Eden in the heart of South Dakota, a major river lying untouched and forgotten for decades – with epic fishing amidst thunderous solitude. It exists, and Dan Frasier, a pioneer of fly fishing for big carp and author of an Orvis guide to carp flies, found it: 39 miles of the Missouri River, almost inaccessible to the public, almost unknown. He was sorely tempted to keep his discovery to himself. Why he did not is a message for all American conservationists.
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0:00.0 | You went to Breckenridge and we did a fly fishing trip and that was my first exposure and I loved love love catching fish on the fly and I was talking to the guide that how bummed I was and I lived 300 miles from the nearest cold water. |
0:13.6 | Yeah. It was funny he actually he said you know you catch panfish and bass and he named |
0:17.9 | all these respectable species and then he said kind of quiet like almost like don't |
0:21.2 | tell anybody but he said sometimes I'll even catch |
0:23.1 | carper on the fly yeah and I thought well I know where some of those live yeah and |
0:27.3 | their job and they're huge yeah |
0:30.3 | sometimes it blows my mind know that people who are the author of such fantastic successes |
0:37.0 | would start lower in the bar right at the point where it seems to be most necessary to achieve new successes. |
0:45.0 | Yeah, that's interesting. |
0:46.0 | I don't know where we got wore out. |
0:48.0 | That's interesting. |
0:49.0 | Yeah, I don't either. |
0:50.0 | And I don't hear anybody out there who says, boy National Park System was a terrible idea we should blow it up. |
0:55.0 | Right. Or that clean water act I mean. |
0:58.0 | I mean who needs to swim or fish or drink water? |
1:02.0 | I think... Who needs to swim or fish or drink water? |
1:12.0 | I think that they would be interested to know that instead of going to the Amazon and catching and catching those fish or going to the Nile or whatever. |
1:13.0 | They could, if they wanted to, come to stretches on the Missouri, |
1:17.5 | whether here or the brakes, I mean the brakes are just astonishing. |
1:20.5 | Yeah, for sure. |
1:21.5 | Where there are species that are at least as exotic to them and you can get into real wild, you know, real live wild right here in the heart of the US. |
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