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New fly fishing gear: March 2023

With fishing season right around the corner, a bevy of new gear is about to hit fly shop shelves

by Chris Hunt - Tuesday, Mar 14th, 2023

Photo: Orvis.

It’s almost spring and fly fishers are prepping for a new season on the water. Predictably, manufacturers are launching new product lines and anglers in need of gear upgrades are going to have plenty of choices to make. From wading boots to travel luggage to attire, the industry’s leading manufacturers are coming in hot with new products that might feel like must-have stuff for 2023.

Chatting dry fly fishing with the experts

Join us this Wednesday for a live Q&A about all things dry fly fishing

by Chad Shmukler - Saturday, Mar 11th, 2023

Students and instructors at The School of Trout (photo: Tim Romano).

If you’re looking for an angler to query with dry fly fishing questions, or if you’re in search of a dry-fly expert, you might consider seeking an audience with School of Trout founder Todd Tanner. In the roughly three decades I’ve been a fly angler, two of those three in the “business” of fly fishing, I’ve yet to meet another angler more singularly focused on the art of dry fly fishing than Tanner.

The most Idaho fish of them all

Trout? Mountain whitefish may be the most truly 'Idaho' fish there is

by Chris Hunt - Thursday, Mar 9th, 2023

Photo: USFWS Mountain Prairie

When I first moved to Idaho, nearly a quarter of a century ago, I was fascinated with the state’s wild heart. Home to the largest wilderness area in the Lower 48 (the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness — the genesis of mighty Salmon River), and the most roadless acreage of any state in the Union, save for Alaska, I was awash in a desire to see it all.

Gear we love right now: March 2023

What's working on and off the water, right now

by Hatch Magazine - Tuesday, Mar 7th, 2023

Photo: Farbank Enterprises.

Fly anglers are overloaded with gear choices—rods, reels, boots, waders, lines, packs, bags, boxes, vests, apparel and more. It seems harder and harder to know what's worth coveting and what's worth ignoring. Gear reviews are a great way to explore in-depth what might be right for you, but not every piece of gear is suited to a full-length review and, even if it were, there's simply too much of it to get to. With that in mind, we periodically showcase what's working for us right now, to hopefully offer more helpful feedback on gear that's worth a second look.

The School of Trout announces its 2023 class schedule

A class act is headed back to school

by Hatch Magazine - Sunday, Mar 5th, 2023

Class in session at the 2022 School of Trout (photo: Tim Romano).

If you’re relatively new to the sport, you can learn a fair amount about fly fishing from articles and videos, and from books like “The Little Black Book of Fly Fishing.” Anyone with the patience to sit down and read, or to sift through articles and videos on the web, can access a tremendous amount of angling information.

The problem, of course, is that not all of that online information is accurate. There’s a ton of sketchy info the internet, and it’s not always easy to tell whether the advice you’re hearing is good, bad or mediocre.