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Charlie: Fly fishing's visual.
It's all about what the fly does on the water.
The fish have no idea how it got to you,
you might have the ugliest cast in the world.
There's something pretty special
about watching a trout rise.
Just sittin there, you can just sit on the bank
and watch the trout.
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My life has kinda continued
the same way as my life at Gustavus.
I played sports,
I was in the symphony.
Ended up as a political science major.
It gave me the opportunity
to do kind of all sorts of stuff.
One of the coolest things about Gustavus
is I went to Ecuador.
Went to the Galapagos, went to the rain forests.
That gave me quite a travel bug.
Apparently it had a real affect on my life.
Cause I've continued to do that.
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Outfitting or doing conservation work
there's gotta be a benefit to the result.
You gotta have purpose.
So in Mongolia what we're doing,
we're mapping the genetic populations
of fish in these watersheds.
What that did is shows us that each watershed is important.
These fish have been isolated from one another
for millions of years now.
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When I grew up, you catch a fish and just keep it.
I probably wouldn't even think about whether that was legal
or if I had the right number of hooks on my line
or whatever.
So Mongolia is very well regulated
in terms of what legal fishing is.
A lot of people just come out and fish.
Could be locals, could be foreigners, or whatever.
And are unaware and so we tackled that.
Catch and release fishing
has grown in Mongolia unbelievably.
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My name's Charlie Conn and I'm a Gustie.
Make your life count.