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Mill House Podcast

Episode 94: Dr. Ross Boucek - The Mad Fish Scientist

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5973 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

It’s all Tom McGuane’s fault… He’s the culprit who gave Robert Redford the book! Redford loved it, and his film, “A River Runs Through It” indelibly changed everything about fly fishing. Most offensive has been the amount of people around the world we’re now seeing on every body of water. Good for them, actually. Fishing is one of the most important, life changing things we could ever allocate a great amount of our lives to. The down side is the pressure on the fishery, whether it be saltwater speedsters or critters in the fresh. On today's podcast, we visit with Bonefish Tarpon Trust's scientist, Dr. Ross Boucek who is the Florida Keys Initiative Manager studying the spectrum of elements that constitute a healthy resource. Ross is a second-generation South Floridian. He grew up fishing for tarpon and snook out of Everglades City. Ross earned his Masters and Doctoral degrees at Florida International University, studying how weather events, such as hurricanes, droughts, and extreme cold events, impact sport-fishes in Florida Bay and Everglades National Park. After his schooling, he worked for Florida Fish and Wild Conservation Commission, researching fish movements and migrations, and applying that information to conservation actions. Now based in Marathon, Ross spends most of his time in the Keys, either conducting BTT science, or working with anglers, and management agencies to turn BTT science into meaningful management and regulatory changes that improve our Keys fishery. When you listen to Ross, he defines all the issues and concerns with incredible knowledge, insight and clarity.

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As a 38 year old marine research scientist for bonefish tarp and trust,

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Ross Bouchik is one of the most important people in our sport.

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As Anglers continue to experience excessive pressure on the flats around Florida

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and many other fishing destinations around the world, it's become obvious to all.

1:32.0

Habitat Degregation in a decreasing biomass of our fish is a real thing.

1:38.3

On today's podcast we'll dive into some of the questions many are asking.

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We broke everything, we broke lines, we broke hooks, we broke rods, we broke our minds, our marriages we broke the whole thing

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We came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls and whoever had the biggest pair of

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pain he's went to pot.

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I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way and I shot him going through the

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other way so I doubled them both ways. But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.

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I got him on.

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All right now, we're going to teach him a lot so.

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I'm just an old guy that likes to fish and I'm not quitting yet.

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