In the Bucket #13 | The Conservation Angler with John McMillan and Tom Pero
Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast
Dave Stewart
4.7 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 105 minutes
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#703 Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/703
Presented By: FishHound Expeditions, Yellowstone Teton Territory, Drifthook Fly Fishing
In today's show, we're gonna be learning more about The Conservation Angler, or TCA as it's often referred to. We'll be speaking with our friend John McMillan, president of TCA and one of his board members noted author and publisher, Tom Pero. These two gentlemen have a long history in fisheries conservation and also happened to be passionate anglers. We're very excited to feature TCA as our conservation partner and our recently announced Wet Fly Swing Skeena Steelhead School promotion. We have a tremendous amount of respect for this organization and the people involved. Let's get into it. Time to get in the bucket…
Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/703
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| 0:00.0 | One of the reasons I really love Ancorincus Mycus, right, just a.K. Rainbow Trout or Steelhead is that they are so flexible in what they do. |
| 0:10.1 | They have what we refer to in biology is a lot of plasticity. |
| 0:13.3 | And that is basically a rainbow trout can produce a steelhead and a steelhead can produce a rainbow trout. |
| 0:20.2 | And we even have really good evidence |
| 0:22.7 | that rainbow trout that have been landlocked for really long periods of time centuries often still |
| 0:30.1 | produce smolls welcome to In the Bucket, the podcast that explores the culture of spay fishing in the Pacific Northwest, a spectacular land of mountains and wild rivers where every cast has a story to tell. |
| 0:50.5 | I'm your host, Brian Niska. |
| 0:52.7 | In today's show, I'm going to be learning more about the conservation angler, or TCA, as it's often referred to. |
| 0:59.4 | I'll be speaking with our friend John McMillan, president of TCA, and one of his board members, noted author and publisher Tom Perrow. |
| 1:06.7 | These two gentlemen have a long history in fisheries conservation, and also happen to be passionate anglers. |
| 1:12.0 | Personally, I'm very excited to feature TCA as our conservation partner in our recently announced, |
| 1:17.7 | Wet Fly Swing, Skeena Steelhead School Promotion. |
| 1:20.6 | I have a tremendous amount of respect for this organization and the people involved. |
| 1:24.5 | Let's get into it. |
| 1:36.2 | Well, folks, thanks for joining us today. I'm really excited to have John McMillan and Tom Perrow on the show today. We're going to talk about the conservation angler. John, why don't |
| 1:41.0 | you tell our listeners a little bit about yourself? Yeah, well, thanks for having me on, Brian. |
| 1:46.0 | So I'm the president of the conservation angler, and it's an exciting time for us. |
| 1:52.1 | We're going through a bit of a transition, but my formal train is in science, right? |
| 1:58.4 | So basically for the past 27 or 28 years, I've been a scientist. I live |
| 2:03.8 | down here on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. So I grew up along the banks of the |
| 2:08.9 | Washingle River, which is a relatively small to intermediate size tributary that dumps into |
| 2:15.0 | the Columbia right at the mouth of the Columbia River Gorge. |
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