by Chris Hunt - Thursday, Jun 3rd, 2021
It might seem counterintuitive to spend good taxpayer money to keep rangeland cows out of a backwater bay of the Snake River that’s already an environmental war zone.
by Tom Davis - Wednesday, Jun 2nd, 2021
The footpath, worn into sand the color of graham crackers, led over low, grass-stippled dunes to the beach on Lake Superior. A violent squall had rocked our little cottage in the dead of night, but now, beneath a sky so blue it hurt, the big lake was in a happy mood. A soft breeze, not quite warm but not cold, either, pulsed from the west; what surf there was, fizzing lightly in its ebb-and-flow against the cobbled shore, seemed as calmly imperturbable as the breathing of a sleeping god.
by George Daniel - Thursday, May 27th, 2021
The European nymphing trend in the fly fishing community continues to gain steam. The reason for this is simple: for many anglers, it’s the easiest way to consistently catch fish. Given that approximately 80 percent of a trout’s feeding is conducted below the surface, and the majority of that feeding is done close to the streambed, it stands to reason that your best chance of catching a trout is by fishing your flies sub-surface, deep in the water column. That means fishing nymphs.
by Ben Kryzinski - Wednesday, May 26th, 2021
Whether the calendar agrees or not, summer has arrived to much of trout country, and it won’t be long before we start hearing about heat-induced fishing restrictions, or fishing closures altogether. Many eastern locales have experienced a rain-starved spring, leading to below-normal streamflows and reservoir levels, and above-normal stream temperatures. In the West, it’s another lean water year in a series of lean water years.
by Hatch Magazine - Friday, May 21st, 2021
We all know what happens to wild rivers and wild landscapes when those places lack defenders. Inevitably, the wheel of so-called progress turns, and irreplaceable and invaluable wilderness is left used up, despoiled, and often irrevocably damaged. For more than the last century, we've watched this wheel turn in realtime.
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