Connection
Fishing for cutthroat trout has been a way of life for the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe community since time immemorial. For Autumn Harry, her homelands of Pyramid Lake was the only place she had fished — until she started fly fishing.
USFWS Podcast- Fish of the Week!
Visit Kooyooe Pa'a Panunadu (also known as Pyramid Lake) and get to know the Agi/Lahontan Cutthroat Trout! Whether it's a big or small one on the end of your line, there's much to appreciate and celebrate about this remarkable fish and place that the Numu/Northern Paiute people call home. Our guests are Autumn Harry, a Numu & Diné fishing guide, and Roger Peka, a fish biologist with our Lahontan National Fish Hatchery Complex in Nevada.
Fishing Stories- RepYourWater
Co-hosts Garrison and Corinne Doctor are joined by Autumn Harry who runs the first Indigenous woman owned guide service at Kooyooe Pa'a, also known as Pyramid Lake. Autumn shares stories of her best brown trout from a fishing trip with Corinne, some history of the lake and how she can't tell when a fish is big in other water because she is so used to the huge cutthroat in her homelands.
Outside Voices Podcast
As the daughter of Indigenous water rights advocates, Autumn Harry was able to establish a connection to water and fishing at a very young age. Since then, she’s used her skills and knowledge to educate others on the history of Kooyooe Pa’a, or Pyramid Lake, as the first Numu Woman Flyfishing Guide. She’s also led advocacy work and mutual aid efforts for food and land sovereignty to help her community, the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, thrive.
First Paiute Women Flyfishing Guide (The Nevada Independent)
Autumn Harry became the first Paiute woman licensed to offer guided fly fishing trips on the world-class fishing lake, known as Kooyooe Pa’a Panunadu.
Surviving: The Story of the Lahontan Cutthroat Trout
The Pyramid Lake Lahontan Cutthroat Trout was declared extinct in the 1940’s as a result of a badly planned diversion dam on the Truckee River. However, the fish made a near impossible return, aided by the efforts of biologists, tribal litigators, and a carpenter.
Bustle & The North Face
Watch as Autumn Harry, the first Indigenous female fly fishing guide at Pyramid Lake, takes The North Face Explore Fund Council member Liz Sohyeon Kleinrock on a guided fly fishing trip to discuss her work with @brownfolksfishing.