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

New fly fishing gear: May 2026 | Hatch Magazine

With the summer season upon us, fly-fishing manufacturers are prepping their customers for better weather. This month’s offerings includes a new streamer fly reel, new sunglasses from a well-known lens crafter, a new collaborative inflatable boat offering, a new line of on-the-water packs, and a somewhat surprising entry into the flip-flop Read more

Fishing the Hair Spider fly | Hatch Magazine

If only Spider, the hapless character played by Michael Imperioli in “Goodfellas,” could have danced. If he did, he might not have taken a bullet in the foot by Tommy, who then provoked him to mouth off one last time. For Spider, let’s just say it didn’t end well. But spiders can dance. Particularly when […] Read more

Essential spring creek skills | Hatch Magazine

I guess I should blame my high school buddy Mark. I had stumbled along without a mentor in my early fly fishing adventures, fishing small mountain streams on family camping trips but most of my early fly fishing was spent dragging a Woolly Worm behind a primitive float tube in southern Idaho’s desert reservoirs. When […] Read more

Billionaires, Trump officials, and the quiet reshaping of America’s public lands | Hatch Magazine

At the end of a dirt road along the northeastern edge of Montana’s Crazy Mountains, a simple sign warns visitors they are now entering private property. For fifth-generation Montanan Brad Wilson, the notice marks a defeat with implications far beyond the Crazies. “The fate of our public lands and our rights are in jeopardy right […] Read more

Closing the circle on the mysterious gar | Hatch Magazine

As a kid some 45 years ago, I bathed in the mystery of a sleepy, slow, Southern river. The Sabine of my youth was a muddy puzzle that rarely gave up its secrets to a pre-teen boy armed with a spinning rod, a Zebco 33 spooled with 8-pound mono, and a pocket full of Beetle-Spins. […] Read more

R.L. Winston Rod Co. under new ownership | Hatch Magazine

One of the fly-fishing industry’s most respected brands changed hands this week when longtime owner of the R.L. Winston Rod Company, David Ondaatje, announced the sale of the company to Lance Robertson. In a press release from Winston dated May 14, Robertson is described as “a longtime business leader, engineer, and passionate fly fisherman” Read more