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Review: Orvis Superfine Graphite fly rod (2025) | Hatch Magazine

There’s a creek freak in all of us. No matter where we fish, what we chase, or why we do it, down deep in our soul is that little kid who used to stop their bike atop the bridge over the local creek and stare over the guard rail down into the water, hoping to […] Read more
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Unicorns of midnight | Hatch Magazine

Besides the hundred or so tires pried from the bottom of the Upper Delaware during last month’s annual “Get Trashed” river clean-up, something else emerged from the depths that day: reports of stripers – lots of them, and big ones, too. Guides in driftboats, tires piled four-deep in their bows, saw them holding in deeper […] Read more
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Review: Moonlit Lunar S2 fiberglass fly rod | Hatch Magazine

The fly-fishing industry is a conglomerate of niches. To its admirable credit, it works hard to satisfy the desires of its customers. From the saltwater double-haulers and their broom-handle-stiff, double-digit graph-o-licious rocket launchers to the creek-freakers who crawl through the brush and parkour their way up mountain streams, 0-weight Read more
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Review: Moonlit Lunar S2 fly rod | Hatch Magazine

The fly-fishing industry is a conglomerate of niches. To its admirable credit, it works hard to satisfy the desires of its customers. From the saltwater double-haulers and their broom-handle-stiff, double-digit graph-o-licious rocket launchers to the creek-freakers who crawl through the brush and parkour their way up mountain streams, 0-weight Read more
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Has one of the world’s best brown trout fisheries been hiding in plain sight? | Hatch Magazine

“World-class” is one of those monikers that gets thrown around in the fly fishing world, much like the terms “epic,” “legendary,” and the profanely ubiquitous “trophy.” Those charged with marketing angling destinations are an unimaginitive bunch and even for those that are somewhat literarily inclined, there are only so many ways Read more
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This is water we are talking about | Hatch Magazine

Now that the comment period for the proposed rescission of the Roadless Rule is open (for a minimal three weeks), I’m going to ask readers to do something very uncharacteristic for a semi-retired research ecologist and hardcore angler from Montana—forget all the good points that my friend Chris Hunt made in his recent article on […] Read more
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