# @usgs on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DLDV6hLyNaM
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69013862-usgs-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-06-18T18:29:15.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) (@USGS) — https://gondola.cc/USGS

## Caption

🎣 Happy National Go Fishing Day! 

Whether you’re casting a line in a shady mountain stream or soaking up the sun by a western river, we hope you’re enjoying some of the best fishing spots the Western U.S. has to offer. 

But as droughts grow more frequent, they’re putting serious pressure on cold-water fish like trout. That’s where USGS scientists at the Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center come in. Together with Montana State University, they’ve developed a Drought Early Warning System to help protect these iconic fish. 

Using real-time streamgage data and trout biology, we provide streamflow and trout population forecasts so fisheries managers can make smart, science-based decisions. 

You focus on catching trout—we’ll keep working to make sure there are still trout to catch. 🐟 

Learn more about the Drought Early Warning System by clicking the link in today’s USGS story.

📸1: Graduate student fly fishing in Montana. Credit: Montana Cooperative Fishery Research Unit 
📸2: Native Westslope cutthroat trout and bull trout swim in the cool waters of the Flathead River near Glacier National Park, Montana. Credit: USGS 

#NationalGoFishingDay #fishing

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