Biography Rick Hafele, also known as "Bug Man", is one of the world’s leading trout entomologists. Hafele has written several books including the recent children’s book, My Life as a Mayfly. Hafele has been an avid angler for over 50 years, beginning with fishing and observing insects as a child. He worked as an entomologist for the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, helping the state better understand and protect the trout habitat. In this interview, he discusses how being an author and a fly fisherman both require ample observation skills. Hafele comments on how organizations, such as trout Unlimited and Fly Fishers International (FFI), are important because they are recruiting fishermen to observe the progress of projects after they have been completed for various durations of time, a necessary task that does not often get performed. Hafele believes climate change is the biggest threat to trout fisheries.
Rick Hafele, Angling Oral Histories, Montana State University (MSU) Library, Bozeman, MT, https://n2t.net/ark:/75788/m46970452
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