Hatch Magazine - Fly Fishing, etc.

Artificial intelligence owes a couple of renowned fly-fishing writers a deeply legitimate apology. After being passed over by an AI-generated piece submitted by Romanian “author” Andrei Romanov, real human writers were rightfully recognized by the John D. Voelker Foundation and the American Museum of Fly Fishing last month when the legit winner in the annual Robert Traver Fly...

The county cop had me dead to rights. He knew it, and I knew it. Or at least I knew it when, as he passed me heading east on the two-lane highway (I was heading west), I glanced at my speedometer and realized I was humming along somewhere north of 65 miles per hour. The speed limit, of course, was 55.

Yeah, I was screwed.

His party lights began to strobe; I said...

There’s a belief floating around the angling community that the fastest way for beginning and intermediate trout fishers to improve their skills is to sign up for a top quality class or attend a first-rate fly fishing school. I’ve thought about that assumption a fair amount over the years, and while schools make a ton of sense for some folks, they’re not necessarily the right...

Our angling and our public lands are at risk. Our nation is in trouble. And we have a national election coming up on Tuesday, November 3rd.

As we approach the 2026 election, an awful lot of voters are laser-focused on the American economy. Both

As a kid on a party boat charter off the coast of Galveston more than 40 years ago, I learned first-hand that having a banana on board a fishing vessel is a more egregious sin than letting the engine oil run dry, hoisting the Jolly Roger, or even throwing the captain overboard. Much of my first taste of this maritime wives tale was theater, but even initiating a seance and co...