Author Herb Miller is a senior lecturer at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He has shared his enthusiasm for fly fishing with tens of thousands of students, and hopes for a new generation of fly fishers to protect and conserve our waters. Jeremiah Alvarado - photo
This story was originally titled “The Color of Fly Fishing: Promoting diversity on our waters” It appeared in the Feb-Mar 2021 issue of Fly Fisherman.
I was first introduced to fly fishing when Tony Sgro, CEO and Founder of EdVenture Partners, invited me to fish with him in California. We went on a float trip down the Lower Sacramento River, where I caught my first trout. The next day we went to Hat Creek, known for wild, elusive trout. We wrapped up our adventure with a magical day fishing the McCloud River Nature Conservancy property. Since then, fly fishing has been one of my biggest passions.
At the beginning of each semester at the University of Texas McCombs...