The Particular Sadness of Trout Fishing in America
Outside/In
NHPR
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🗓️ 12 November 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, when you when you're driving there you're very exciting because you're like, oh I really want to put that word |
| 0:13.1 | on the hook and start fishing. |
| 0:18.8 | That's producer Taylor Quimby's son, Finn. |
| 0:22.0 | He and Taylor go fishing a lot. Do you have a favorite fish to catch? |
| 0:25.0 | Um, Pike and Pickerl. Hmm. Because they fight? Yeah, they fight hard. |
| 0:43.2 | I do not fish, but thanks to a little help from this particular angler, I think I've maybe come to understand those who do. It feels good to actually cast a fishing lot. |
| 0:48.5 | And once you hook a fish, |
| 0:52.0 | the day usually gets better. But despite what you see on |
| 0:59.0 | fishing reality TV it is not all about landing some monster for the trophy photo for your social media profile. |
| 1:07.0 | Even for kids, it's stillness. |
| 1:11.0 | Wild places, quiet. |
| 1:15.0 | And yes, occasionally a bit of excitement. And sometimes it's good, it's bad, sometimes you catch stuff and sometimes you don't. |
| 1:35.0 | This scene which I created mostly with stock sound effects is totally artificial and |
| 1:41.4 | believe it or not, |
| 1:42.7 | some of the fish that Finn has caught, |
| 1:45.4 | they're artificial too. |
| 1:47.6 | Okay, so how does this next part go? |
| 1:50.1 | So Tyler will get in and we'll scoop up all the fish in the same and then we'll take them a net full of time, weigh them, and then they'll go right back into the truck so we know the weight that we're releasing into the water body. |
| 2:01.6 | Every year, my home state, New Hampshire, which has only a little more than a |
| 2:05.5 | million people in it, raises more than a million trout in concrete tanks. In terms of numbers, it goes brook trout, rainbows, and then browns, at least. |
| 2:19.1 | Those trout are then loaded into trucks. |
| 2:22.1 | Moving the track, and driven all over the state. |
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