BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 71: Matt Miller, outdoor writer and obsessed angler

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Hal meets with his old friend (and sometimes editor) Matt Miller in Matt’s hometown of Boise, Idaho, to talk about life and Matt’s new book Fishing Through the Apocalypse: An Angler’s Adventures in the 21st Century. Matt and Hal have known each other since they both started out writing for Bugle magazine before the dawn of the present century, and Matt – an obsessed fisherman, elk and deer hunter and mentor to a nascent fishing and hunting son – has traveled the world as the longtime science writer for The Nature Conservancy (as well as written for Field & Stream and other outdoor publications). If you think you are a fishing obsessive, it might make you feel better (or worse) to know that there are people many times more obsessed than you are, and some of them are probably even weirder than you. Matt fits right in.

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0:00.0	A site of Santa Barbara that you would have never seen anywhere else and people are out there
0:08.6	catching dinner, they were one winding after working construction. There were people with sticks.
0:14.6	And that's the outdoor life too.
0:18.7	Yeah, for sure.
0:20.1	And that's how people are connecting to nature and I think we have to meet them where they are.
0:26.4	Part of the reason why it's so hard to clean up those acid mine streams is they don't have a constituency and people are locked into the sense that there's no hope for them.
0:37.5	Like there's nothing we can do so why bother?
0:41.0	Because it makes us human.
0:43.5	It is.
0:44.5	I mean, our connection with the rest of the fabric of reality
0:47.7	is what makes us human beings.
0:49.6	People can think that ain't true all they want.
0:52.0	And at the end of the day, they say they'll be proved wrong.
0:55.5	Yeah you know because human beings don't exist without clean water and clean water is good for fish.
1:02.2	We'd like to thank Sitka Gear, maker of the most effective hunting and
1:06.8	outdoor apparel in the world for their sponsorship of this podcast. We
1:11.5	wouldn't be here without them and I really appreciate it. Thank you.
1:16.4	Hello and welcome back to Backcountry Hunters and Anglers podcast and Blast. Or if you'd ever been before here before come on in I have
1:26.6	got a old friend of mine here Matt Miller or Matthew L Miller as he calls himself on his new book and we're going to
1:37.4	talk about a book called Fishing through the Apocalypse. I just finished it on a
1:41.4	long trip. I was in Northern Nevada, reading his book in a camp on the BLM land.
1:48.3	And I, this was the second time I'd read it and it is, it is great and that's why we want to talk about it.
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