MSU Library sponsors an annual Trout Lecture featuring speakers that speak to
all aspects of trout and salmonid culture and represent the diversity of angling.

Save September 9, 2025 for the 2025 Trout Lecture

Theodore Roosevelt IV, the great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt and advocate for climate protection and the U.S. National Park System, will speak at the 2025 lecture. Details will be posted here as they are finalized.

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2024

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Carl Hiaasen

Novelist and Journalist Carl Hiaasen presents "The Loveliest Disease: Angling as a Therapeutic Pastime"

2023

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Jen Brown

Historian and MSU alumna presents "The History of Western Fly Fishing in Five Flies"

2022

Jim Goetz

Jim Goetz

Attorney Jim Goetz presents "The Waters Belong to Everyone: The Montana Stream Access Cases" 

2019

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Henry Hughes

Writer and professor Henry Hughes presents "The Sensual Fish"

2018

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Martha Williams

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Director Martha Williams presents "Wild Trout in Montana"

2017

Jeremey Wade

Jeremy Wade

Animal Planet's River Monsters host, writer, and extreme angler, Jeremy Wade presents "How Healthy Are The World's Rivers?"

2016

 

Thomas McGuane

Thomas McGuane

Award-winning author

2015

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Chris Wood

President of Trout Unlimited

2014

Dan Wenk

Dan Wenk

Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park presents "Native Fish Conservation in Yellowstone National Park."

2013

Nathaniel Reed

Nathaniel Reed

Former Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks

2012

James Prosek

James Prosek

Celebrated artist and author

2011

Richard Hoffman

Richard Hoffman

“Trout and Fly, Work and Play, in Medieval Europe.”

 

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