Hatch Magazine - Fly Fishing, etc.

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 music?” And “old man” comes out as if it’s some sort of epithet. An insult...

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...

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 ther...

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.

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 out in saltwater. Pliers that are ideal for removin...