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Can fish see directly behind them? | Hatch Magazine

August 6, 2025 0 Comments

We’ve all been there. You spy a trout finning in the current, not too far off the bank, oblivious to your presence. A perfect target. Easy, even. You stand quiet and still, assess the current, watch the fish’s behavior to see if you can discern what it is or isn’t eating, and envision your cast. […] Read more
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Tying Tuesday: Late-Summer Selections | MidCurrent

August 5, 2025 0 Comments

In this week’s Tying Tuesday, we’re featuring four cool patterns that should come in handy this time of year. We kick things off with Gary Morin tying an elegant Rusty Spinner with a CDC wing that should cause the pattern to lie in the surface film, just like the real thing. Next up, the folks […] Read more
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The Meteoric Rise and Fall of a Denver Fly Shop

August 4, 2025 0 Comments

For years, Trouts Fly Fishing was everywhere on social media—producing gorgeous Youtube videos on flies and techniques, regularly posting to Facebook and Instagram—and then it just disappeared. A fascinating story in Fly Fisherman by Andrew Becker features interviews with several of the players in this story and details how it all went wrong. Read more
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Simms Introduces Grateful Dead-Themed Waders and Apparel

August 4, 2025 0 Comments

There’s long been a connection between fly fishing and the music of the Grateful Dead. (See the Abel reel, as well as the myriad sticker, hats, tee shirts, and pins.) As someone who’d rather listen to the screams of a colicky baby than any Dead song, I’ve never quite understood it, but I know that […] Read more
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Video: How to Cast in Tight Spaces

August 1, 2025 0 Comments

When you’re fishing small streams with a lot of overhead tree branches and streamside vegetation, casting can be a problem. In this video, Charity Rutter of R and R Fly Fishing in East Tennessee shows Brian Flechsig how she manages her rod tip and line to ensure that the fly gets to the fish. They […] Read more
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How Bucket Biologists are Destroying Maine’s Coldwater Fisheries

July 31, 2025 0 Comments

What compels a person to willfully introduce bass into a classic trout or salmon fishery? Is it a revenge crime, a payback to the Fish and Wildlife Department for some wrong — real or imagined? Do these individuals, in a moment of deluded thinking, fancy themselves as some kind of fishing activists hell-bent on transforming […] Read more
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