The sun is the same in a relative way, but you’re older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death—Roger Waters, “Time”
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by Tim Schulz - Thursday, Dec 14th, 2023
by Tim Schulz - Thursday, Dec 14th, 2023
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you’re older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death—Roger Waters, “Time”
by Hatch Magazine - Wednesday, Dec 13th, 2023
If you’ve been paying attention to the news over the last couple of years, you already know that southwest Montana’s wild trout are in trouble. Populations in iconic rivers like the Ruby, Big Hole, Beaverhead and Jefferson are in sharp decline and recent data from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) shows that wild trout populations on the Big Hole have hit the lowest levels since record-keeping began in the 1960s.
by Hatch Magazine - Monday, Dec 11th, 2023
Fly fishing manufacturers aren’t taking the holidays off. Some intriguing items are new in December, including a premium saltwater fly rod from a legacy rod maker, the latest incarnation of a beloved line of do-everything bags and packs, and an interesting riverside coffee-making kit for those cold winter mornings on the river. Check out the new gear that caught our eye this month.
by Chris Hunt - Friday, Dec 8th, 2023
As if Idaho’s Snake River isn’t facing enough environmental challenges, a new study now shows how mercury is accumulating in the river’s prized smallmouth bass fishery thanks to an ecological cocktail exacerbated by warming reservoirs and decaying algae.
by Tom Davis - Thursday, Dec 7th, 2023
The ground had glittered with frost when we started hunting; now, the shadows were beginning to lengthen, and not only was my gamebag still empty, my barrels weren’t even dirty. We—meaning my English cocker spaniel, Rumor, and I—had moved exactly one woodcock all day, a bird whose twittering rise I heard distinctly but whose pear-plump form I was unable to “find,” visually, through the gray, thickly massed ranks of popple.