Award-winning author and angling enthusiast Thomas McGuane presented the annual Trout and Salmonid Lecture of the Montana State University (MSU) Library on May 5, 2016. Ranging widely from the healing effects of fishing for wounded veterans to his own angling experiences to the embarrassing potential of auto-correction in texting, he always came back to fish as “emblematic of the perfection of nature.” Yet there is concern for the future of cold water fisheries. “Montana is a snow-driven ecosystem,” yet it is facing the effects of global warming.

Recorded on May 5, 2016 at the Museum of the Rockies, by the Montana State University Library. The original video may be seen on the Library YouTube channel.