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

Why a two-weight line should really be a one-weight | Hatch Magazine

When I was in college, I had a friend who studied German, and another who studied music. Those of us majoring in useful things like accounting, finance, biology, or engineering lumped those pointless specialties into a broader discipline we called Useless Knowledge. Our two friends had pretty good attitudes about it, though, and one even Read more

Tying Tuesday: Essential Winter Midges and Technical Nymphs

When winter temperatures settle in, trout slow down—and so must our approach. Success demands technical midge patterns and refined subsurface presentations that can fool even the most lethargic fish. This week’s collection begins at the surface with Savage Flies’ Snow Fly, a masterclass in visibility design for winter dry fly fishing. Read more

Skagit Steelhead Season Hangs by a Thread—Not for Lack of Fish, But Funding

Image by Kent Sanders The wild steelhead are coming back to the Skagit River. The anglers who’ve waited all year to meet them may not get the chance. As of mid-January, the highly anticipated catch-and-release season on Washington’s Skagit and Sauk rivers—a bucket-list destination for steelhead anglers across the Pacific Northwest—stands Read more

Wyoming’s 2026 Fishing Overhaul: Barbless Hooks on North Platte, Year-Round Jackson Lake

Image by Robert Haase As of January 1, 2026, Wyoming anglers face the most significant overhaul of fishing regulations in decades. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s new rules mandate barbless hooks on the legendary North Platte River tailwaters while simultaneously expanding opportunities in the Jackson Region—a regulatory balancing act Read more

Sage Unveils Limited Edition Enforcer Grand Slam Reels: A Collector’s Dream for Flats Anglers

Image courtesy of Far Bank Enterprises Just as saltwater fly fishers begin booking spring trips to Caribbean flats and the Florida Keys, Sage has introduced what may become the most sought-after reels of the season: the Enforcer Grand Slam limited edition series. The three-model collection pays tribute to the legendary saltwater “Grand Read more

With Combs, Scott Fly Rods aims for continuity, innovation | Hatch Magazine

News last month that longtime Orvis design and development director Shawn Combs was migrating to Montrose, Colo., to work with Jim Bartschi at Scott Fly Rods raised eyebrows across the fly-fishing industry. With Orvis undergoing a significant restructuring in the fall of 2025, many wondered if Combs’ move to Scott was the result of corporate Read more