Koona Fishing Tips

What Makes Fishing Fun

Learn To Fish: It’s Fun! Fishing is a fun and tranquil sport that lets you spend quiet time with your friends, family and with Mother Nature. Fresh water fishing is a sport involving the catching of fish in lakes, rivers and streams. It involves a lot of patience, challenge and a lot of acquired skill […] Read more

Fresh Caught Fish Cooking Preparation

Fresh Caught Fish Cooking Preparation To maintain the delicate flavor of a newly caught freshwater or saltwater fish, this must be handled properly to avoid spoilage. Not to mention preserving the fish with pleasing odor. There are ways to properly prepare and maintain the quality just after the catch of the fish into a sumptuous […] Read more

Some Basic Facts about Fishing Gear

Some Basic Facts about Fishing Gear In fishing, it is very important to an anglers success that he starts with the proper equipment. He may purchase or own the finest equipment in the world, but when it is assembled and put into use, it may prove to be a very decided handicap. To guard against […] Read more

If I was starting over: Fly fishing advice for my younger self | Hatch Magazine

While it’s still a little hard for me to believe, I’ve actually been fly fishing since Ronald Reagan was president. And the fact that I’ve been at it so long — I started guiding on the Henry’s Fork and the Madison in 1992, and writing about the sport on a national level a couple of […] Read more

$100 million for Canada’s Atlantic salmon: What does it mean for recovery? | Hatch Magazine

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced last week “the largest investment in wild Atlantic salmon conservation in Canadian history” by funding the country’s National Strategy to Ensure the Future of Atlantic Salmon to the tune of $81.7 million over five years. The government money will be matched by $25 million raised by the Atlantic Salmon Read more

Tying Tuesday: No Name Required

This week’s lineup covers the range. Sea-Run Fly & Tackle’s beaded purple nymph is built for low-light, overcast days when high-contrast color is doing the work your visibility can’t. AvidMax walks through the GFC Fly, a spare midge-style pattern that excels in the clear, pressured water of stillwaters and tailraces. Root River Rod Co Read more

Imagination is more important than knowledge | Hatch Magazine

My good friend and mentor, Professor Earl, straightens me out more often than a spring creek angler uncurls their tippet. Professor Earl, for example, taught me that bananas, tomatoes, and eggplants are berries, but strawberries and raspberries aren’t. He also showed me how the Bluetooth logo is made up of two Nordic runes, ᚼ and […] Read more

Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service | Hatch Magazine

Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a “reorganization.” An execution. They’re ripping the headquarters out Read more

The West’s alarmingly low snowpack—and what it could mean for summer trout fishing | Hatch Magazine

It’s been a tough winter in the Rockies. Just ask around. Ski areas are closing early — or they closed weeks ago. High-elevation peaks are already shedding what little snow they received. Here in eastern Idaho, I cleared snow off my walks once all winter. With a push broom. It’s been horrifically dry at lower […] Read more