WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.248 --> 00:00:02.831 line:90% (gentle music) 2 00:00:10.300 --> 00:00:12.570 line:90% Fly fishing's visual. 3 00:00:12.570 --> 00:00:15.230 line:90% It's all about what the fly does on the water. 4 00:00:15.230 --> 00:00:16.737 line:90% The fish have no idea how it got to you, 5 00:00:16.737 --> 00:00:19.023 line:90% you might have the ugliest cast in the world. 6 00:00:19.870 --> 00:00:20.930 line:90% There's something pretty special 7 00:00:20.930 --> 00:00:22.300 line:90% about watching a trout rise. 8 00:00:22.300 --> 00:00:23.930 line:90% Just sittin there, you can just sit on the bank 9 00:00:23.930 --> 00:00:25.532 line:90% and watch the trout. 10 00:00:25.532 --> 00:00:28.115 line:90% (gentle music) 11 00:00:31.690 --> 00:00:33.770 line:90% My life has kinda continued 12 00:00:34.800 --> 00:00:37.465 line:90% the same way as my life at Gustavus. 13 00:00:37.465 --> 00:00:39.856 line:90% I played sports, 14 00:00:39.856 --> 00:00:41.470 line:90% I was in the symphony. 15 00:00:41.470 --> 00:00:43.823 line:90% Ended up as a political science major. 16 00:00:44.670 --> 00:00:45.740 line:90% It gave me the opportunity 17 00:00:45.740 --> 00:00:48.610 line:90% to do kind of all sorts of stuff. 18 00:00:48.610 --> 00:00:50.560 line:90% One of the coolest things about Gustavus 19 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:52.243 line:90% is I went to Ecuador. 20 00:00:53.290 --> 00:00:56.650 line:90% Went to the Galapagos, went to the rain forests. 21 00:00:56.650 --> 00:00:58.780 line:90% That gave me quite a travel bug. 22 00:00:58.780 --> 00:01:00.700 line:90% Apparently it had a real affect on my life. 23 00:01:00.700 --> 00:01:03.016 line:90% Cause I've continued to do that. 24 00:01:03.016 --> 00:01:05.599 line:90% (gentle music) 25 00:01:10.500 --> 00:01:13.860 line:90% Outfitting or doing conservation work 26 00:01:13.860 --> 00:01:16.790 line:90% there's gotta be a benefit to the result. 27 00:01:16.790 --> 00:01:18.960 line:90% You gotta have purpose. 28 00:01:18.960 --> 00:01:20.970 line:90% So in Mongolia what we're doing, 29 00:01:20.970 --> 00:01:23.880 line:90% we're mapping the genetic populations 30 00:01:23.880 --> 00:01:25.490 line:90% of fish in these watersheds. 31 00:01:25.490 --> 00:01:30.180 line:90% What that did is shows us that each watershed is important. 32 00:01:30.180 --> 00:01:32.060 line:90% These fish have been isolated from one another 33 00:01:32.060 --> 00:01:33.752 line:90% for millions of years now. 34 00:01:33.752 --> 00:01:36.335 line:90% (gentle music) 35 00:01:42.650 --> 00:01:45.240 line:90% When I grew up, you catch a fish and just keep it. 36 00:01:45.240 --> 00:01:47.810 line:90% I probably wouldn't even think about whether that was legal 37 00:01:47.810 --> 00:01:49.840 line:90% or if I had the right number of hooks on my line 38 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:50.673 line:90% or whatever. 39 00:01:50.673 --> 00:01:52.436 line:90% So Mongolia is very well regulated 40 00:01:52.436 --> 00:01:55.040 line:90% in terms of what legal fishing is. 41 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:57.500 line:90% A lot of people just come out and fish. 42 00:01:57.500 --> 00:02:00.370 line:90% Could be locals, could be foreigners, or whatever. 43 00:02:00.370 --> 00:02:03.380 line:90% And are unaware and so we tackled that. 44 00:02:03.380 --> 00:02:04.490 line:90% Catch and release fishing 45 00:02:04.490 --> 00:02:07.889 line:90% has grown in Mongolia unbelievably. 46 00:02:07.889 --> 00:02:10.472 line:90% (bright music) 47 00:02:11.540 --> 00:02:13.300 line:90% My name's Charlie Conn and I'm a Gustie. 48 00:02:13.300 --> 00:02:14.383 line:90% Make your life count.