Hatch Magazine - Fly Fishing, etc.

This year’s Columbia and Snake river steelhead run is shaping up to be historically bad. Since the fish counting at Bonneville Dam started only July 1, fisheries managers have tallied just over 52,000 fish above the dam. This makes the 2026 steelhead migration the

Montrose, Colorado-based Scott Fly Rods announced last week that it is expanding two of its newest and most popular fly rods series. Three new rod models have been added to Scott’s moderate-action GT series and one new model has been added to its flagship two-handed Swing series. Though not used by Scott, the ubiquitous marketing buzzword “purpose-built” applies here, with ea...

One of my favorite stories my grandfather used to tell me took place in the late 1940s and the 1950s. As a young man, he and his buddies would drive from their farmland homes on the windswept prairies of eastern Colorado to the canyon country of the state’s south-central region. They’d stop in Denver for breakfast, and do their best to make it to Fairplay for a potty break. T...

The Colorado River and its reservoirs, which supply water for about 40 million people and 30 tribes across seven states and two countries, is drying up. Lake Mead on the Arizona-Nevada border, which has the largest storage capacity of any reservoir in the United States, hit its

Memories remain over 65 years since my younger brother, Tom, and I stood by a lovely trout pond on a misty Michigan morning. He, then a skinny 9-year old toe-headed kid. Me, a hefty lad a year older with long brown hair wet from walking through the fog and heavy forest to get to the pond. Dawn was coming slowly that day in the misty gloom. As we stood in the tall grasses on t...