“What Trout Want”

Trout intelligence and catch-and release-cruelty? New Zealand author Bob Wyatt discusses trout psychology in this excerpt from What Trout Want: The Educated Trout and other Fly-fishing Myths: “Fly fishing has evolved into something that separates it from all other outdoor sports. These days it’s almost entirely an aesthetic experience, unlike hunting, its ancient parent form, which necessarily involves the death of the quarry.”