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Zero Startup Inertia | Hatch Magazine

May 13, 2026 Comments Off on Zero Startup Inertia | Hatch Magazine

The multitool was somewhere in my vest. Forty-three tools in one. Well, forty-four if you count being able to hook it to a drift boat’s anchor line when the lighter anchor—the pyramid-shaped one made from lead—wrestles itself free from the carabiner. That was the good news. As for the bad, the tool was hiding among […] Read more
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Trout under the towers: Fly fishing in the shadow of Torres del Paine | Hatch Magazine

May 11, 2026 Comments Off on Trout under the towers: Fly fishing in the shadow of Torres del Paine | Hatch Magazine

My friend Vikki tells me that my musical tastes are deeply offensive to her. I just smile and nod — she’s a few years older than me, but, despite her advancing age, she’s much more tuned into what’s popular now than I am. “You’re not that old,” she chides. “Why do you like that old-man […] Read more
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Where the Mississippi meets the Gulf: Fly fishing Horn Island | Hatch Magazine

May 10, 2026 Comments Off on Where the Mississippi meets the Gulf: Fly fishing Horn Island | Hatch Magazine

Look south from Beach Boulevard on a clear day in Jimmy Buffet’s Pascagoula and sometimes you can see well enough to know it’s there. Maybe a cloud stands static above it. Maybe a dark vertical line hints at trees, or pale horizontal suggests beach. Even among those who know of the island, that vista is […] Read more
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Fly fishing caddis emergences | Hatch Magazine

May 2, 2026 Comments Off on Fly fishing caddis emergences | Hatch Magazine

When John Juracek, and I published our little book, Fishing Yellowstone Hatches, we wrote in the book’s introduction how a knowledge of insect hatches can improve angling success and that anglers should take an interest in insects because they are the root of our sport—without them there is no basis for fly fishing. John and […] Read more
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Drought claims a Colorado trophy trout lake | Hatch Magazine

April 30, 2026 Comments Off on Drought claims a Colorado trophy trout lake | Hatch Magazine

The ongoing western drought has claimed perhaps its biggest victim — a trophy trout reservoir in the upper reaches of the South Platte River drainage in Colorado’s fabled South Park. Denver Water announced plans this spring to completely drain Antero Reservoir, moving its water to more efficient reservoirs in the South Platte drainage. In Read more
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Patagonia’s new River Salt II wading boots aim to do it all for anglers | Hatch Magazine

April 26, 2026 Comments Off on Patagonia’s new River Salt II wading boots aim to do it all for anglers | Hatch Magazine

Most anglers that split their time between freshwater and saltwater don’t get to enjoy a high degree of fly fishing gear overlap. Rods and reels that perform well on streams and rivers don’t typically fare well on flats and skiffs. Bags and packs with metal fasteners, which are perfectly suitable in freshwater, rust and wear […] Read more
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