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 Missouri River Gale of 2024

3 days 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

1 week 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 week 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

2 weeks 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?

3 weeks 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

3 weeks 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.
Burn pile

1 month ago | hatchmag.com | Chris Hunt

Growing up on the fringes of the Deep South, in the East Texas piney woods region, there was always a tricky summer ballet we had to perform. It was a careful balance between wandering down to the local pond — where we’d sneak through the woods after carefully climbing through a barbed-wire fence erected to keep us out — to chase bass and bream on sticky summer days and handling the “chores” that came with living on three-quarters of a pine-tree pocked acre.
4 underrated Western trout towns

1 month ago | hatchmag.com | Chris Hunt

I spent a beautiful spring week on Montana’s Bighorn River, one of those western gems that gets fished aggressively come summer. And, on a glorious April day when the mercury tickled 80 degrees, the river saw its share of anglers. The good news? The ‘Horn is one of those rivers that just keeps on delivering big fish, no matter how many boats and how many anglers find their way to its chilled waters below Yellowtail Dam.