Speckled Trout Music Video
This is a stream-side recording of my song Speckled Trout during a short break from field work in Central Alaska. Please forgive the distorted image from the fisheye lens on one of our research cameras. Visual distortion aside, my guess is this is the first time you’ve seen someone perform an original song in waders. Speckled Trout is about the biology and behavior of Southern Brook Charr, but the interior Dolly Varden charr of central Alaska, which we are studying, are remarkably similar in appearance and status. Ichtylologists please forgive the taxonomic inaccuracy in the song, the name Speckled Trout is what the mountain folk of the Southern Appalachians call the Southern Brook Trout.
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