Prairie Sportsman
Fishing with a Fly
Preview: Season 8 Episode 12 | 24s
Fly fishing and trout-stocking.
Bret learns the art of fly fishing from expert fly fisherman Mike Alwin at Whitewater State Park in southeast Minnesota. Then, go to a DNR trout hatchery in Lanesboro, Minn., and to Camden State Park where 2,500 brown trout raised at the hatchery are released into the Redwood River in southwest Minnesota. A high school stream ecology class release nets full of brown trout into the river.
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Prairie Sportsman is a local public television program presented by Pioneer PBS
The 2017 season is made possible by funding from the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund as recommended by the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources, and by Ice Castle Fish Houses Manufacturing and Live Wide Open.
Prairie Sportsman
Fishing with a Fly
Preview: Season 8 Episode 12 | 24s
Bret learns the art of fly fishing from expert fly fisherman Mike Alwin at Whitewater State Park in southeast Minnesota. Then, go to a DNR trout hatchery in Lanesboro, Minn., and to Camden State Park where 2,500 brown trout raised at the hatchery are released into the Redwood River in southwest Minnesota. A high school stream ecology class release nets full of brown trout into the river.
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Clip: S8 Ep12 | 5m 41s | Visiting a DNR trout hatchery in Lanesboro. (5m 41s)
Fly fishing at Whitewater State Park
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Clip: S8 Ep12 | 10m 48s | Fly fishing at Whitewater State Park. (10m 48s)
Trout Stocking at Camden State Park
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Clip: S8 Ep12 | 5m 57s | Releasing brown trout into the Redwood River. (5m 57s)
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Prairie Sportsman is a local public television program presented by Pioneer PBS
The 2017 season is made possible by funding from the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund as recommended by the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources, and by Ice Castle Fish Houses Manufacturing and Live Wide Open.