President Obama the Trout Fisherman

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I wonder if he'll throw them back. Or wear waders.

President Obama Practicing his technique?


President Obama the Trout Fisherman
By Adam Nagourney

DENVER- First there was President Obama the golfer. And now – President Obama the fisherman?

Mr. Obama’s trip out West later this week — to promote his health care plan in states like this one and Montana — is going to include a few hours of trout fishing in Montana. Jim Messina, the president’s deputy chief of staff, who grew up in Montana and Idaho and is a wildlife enthusiast, will be taking him.

Mr. Messina disclosed the president’s plan while talking at a conference of Western Democratic leaders here, discussing Democratic gains in the region over the past six years. Mr. Messina was talking about issues of concern to Western voters, among them providing access to hunters and fishermen to federally protected land.

“Access to public land and transportation are two issues that were politically salient in the West before they were anywhere else,” he said at the Project New West conference. “I am going to have the great opportunity later this week: I’m going to take the leader of the free world fishing. And I plan to talk a little bit about public access.”

Mr. Messina, in an interview, declined to say where in Montana he would take Mr. Obama fishing, citing security concerns. Asked whether Mr. Obama was a practiced fisherman – and in particular, whether he had hidden his interest in the sport during the campaign the way he might have hidden his interest in, say, golf – Mr. Messina deferred questions to the White House.