by Chris Hunt - Thursday, Jun 17th, 2021
The independent utility grid in Texas wasn’t the only victim of this past February’s deep freeze that gripped the state. Unable to escape to Cancun like U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, about 4 million fish all along Texas’ coast perished in the unusually cold weather.
by Hatch Magazine - Tuesday, Jun 15th, 2021
After a pandemic-fueled series of iterative postponements and cancellations that eventually led to the cancellation of their entire 2021 schedule, The Fly Fishing Show has announced its 2022 dates, featuring a nearly fully restored schedule. The 2022 Fly Fishing Show will kick off January 21, 2022 in Marlborough, Massachusetts and conclude on March 6, 2022 in Lancaster Pennsylvania, making 4 other stops along the way.
by George Daniel - Monday, Jun 14th, 2021
Nymphing is one of the most productive fly fishing methods given that trout spend the majority of their time feeding below the surface. Often the question is “what nymphing tactic do I use?” There is no clear-cut answer to this question, simply because there are times when one nymphing tactic is better than others.
by Chad Shmukler - Friday, Jun 11th, 2021
Ask Mark Hieronymous, fishing guide and Sportfish Outreach Coordinator for Trout Unlimited's Alaska program, and he'll gladly tell you that Alaska's Tongass National Forest "is one of the few places in the world where wild salmon and trout still thrive and development hasn’t reduced the landscape to a patchwork of inadequate wildlife habitat.
by Hatch Magazine - Wednesday, Jun 9th, 2021
Woodland, WA rod maker G. Loomis introduced the IMX-PRO lineup back in 2017 as a "purpose-built" lineup of rods that, rather than being a slate of do-it-all tools, was comprised of rods designed to tackle specific tasks. Over the years, that philosophy has proven itself on the water. For countless anglers, many of which are guides, various IMX-PRO models—such as the streamer-centric IMX-PRO 905-7 or the punchy IMX-PRO 61111-4 Short Spey—have become favorite and dependable task-specific performers.
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