Hatch Magazine

Hatch Magazine is a digital publication focused on the sport of fly fishing. It offers a variety of content, including articles about fishing destinations across the globe, gear reviews for enthusiasts, news pertinent to fly fishing, features on conservation, photo galleries, videos, and more. The goal of Hatch Magazine is to provide a comprehensive view of the fly fishing world.

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The shore lunch that almost wasn't

2 weeks ago | hatchmag.com | Chris Hunt

It’s an old trope — a cautionary tale for every would-be travelling angler. The weather may never be as good as the day before you arrive or as bad as the day you climb into your waders for a 40-minute run across a boreal lake in search of pike. There’s likely some math behind this Murphy’s Law of fly fishing, but it escapes this English major’s limited numerical capacity. But there is one thing that holds true.
Jaws turns 50: Has the iconic film played a role in the dramatic decline in shark populations?

2 weeks ago | hatchmag.com | David Shiffman

Steven Spielberg’s iconic film Jaws first hit theaters on June 20, 1975 — 50 years ago this month. Based on the bestselling novel by Peter Benchley about a great white shark mauling and killing summer tourists at a Massachusetts beach community, the movie terrified viewers, many of whom blame it for a subsequent lifelong fear of sharks.
The Missouri River Gale of 2024

3 weeks ago | hatchmag.com | Chris Hunt

It wasn’t one of those windstorms that made the news last summer in central Montana. TV coverage might have included the weatherman on the local Helena ABC affiliate remarking about how “it sure was windy today,” although seemingly minor events can make the news on a slow day. Just this week, a squirrel got zapped in an electrical substation, cutting power to thousands in Helena.
Toxic waste stands in the way of protecting the Great Lakes from invasive carp

4 weeks ago | hatchmag.com | Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco

Last week, Illinois officials took possession of a 50-acre stretch of riverbed in Chicago’s shipping channel in a last-ditch effort to prevent an ecological disaster from reaching Lake Michigan. It is there, on a sliver of land where a coal-fired power plant once stood, that the state plans a last stand against the invasive Asian carp.
What makes a pike fly great?

1 month ago | hatchmag.com | Chris Hunt

My pike problem started during the summer of 2007 in northwest Saskatchewan. It was my first trip to Canada to fly fish for pike and grayling, and I was kind of flying by the seat of my pants.
The beasts of the Bighorn

1 month ago | hatchmag.com | Chris Hunt

I’ve lost count of the number of eye-rolling stories that I’ve heard from guides about clients killing trophy fish caught from the West’s great trout rivers. The notion that a fish must die to appease the ego, it seems, is still richly embedded among a few trout anglers. And guides, well, they get to know a few trout anglers. The dominant approach to fly fishing these days involves a catch-and-release ethos that’s borderline religious.
Public lands caucus: gift or grift?

1 month ago | hatchmag.com | Chris Hunt

May’s been a weird month for those who have worked in the conservation field for any length of time.
After the flood: Life and fishing in western N.C. post-Hurricane Helene

1 month ago | hatchmag.com | Robert Annis

I’ve known Tim O’Donnell for well over a decade, and I’d never heard this particular tinge of panic permeating his voice until this moment in western North Carolina. Tim had just started fishing a tiny section of the Pigeon River’s west fork, a hole about the size of a five-gallon Harbor Freight bucket, when his indicator suddenly disappeared from the water’s surface and his 3wt Thomas and Thomas rod nearly bent in half.
Are U.S. public lands on the chopping block?

1 month ago | hatchmag.com | Chris Hunt

During a late-night meeting of the House Natural Resources Committee May 6, as congressional members were negotiating the inclusions in the federal budget bill, two Western lawmakers put forth an amendment that could have lasting impacts on America’s public lands and how they’re managed going forward. U.S. Reps.
Second round of NOAA firings put fish species at risk

1 month ago | hatchmag.com | Dawn Attride

Hundreds of climate workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) were fired for the second time after the Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision on an initial dismissal. This move brings the total toll of fired federal employees up to about 16,000 — jeopardizing vital work at NOAA, including marine pollution research, weather forecasting for hurricanes and tornadoes and decisions for local fisheries that help guard against overfishing.