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New twice-monthly School of Trout learning series debuts

A full year of all-new expert fly fishing instruction is on tap for Hatch Magazine readers

by Hatch Magazine - Saturday, Apr 18th, 2026

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

Beginning this month, we’re introducing a new column in partnership with the Montana-based School of Trout. This new, bi-monthly learning series will offer readers valuable insight into a wide range of fly fishing topics — casting, angling techniques, fly tying, entomology, gear and other equipment, trip and travel planning, and much more — all shared by the school’s expert instructors.

Trump admin attempts to contain blowback from Forest Service 'reorganization'

The White House lobbed slurs while USDA leadership offered weak refutations of both reporting, statements from Forest Service veterans, and other critics of planned actions

by Jim Pattiz - Wednesday, Apr 15th, 2026

Deputy U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Stephen A. Vaden and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins (not pictured), joined by U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), announce the sale of USDA facilities in Washington, DC on February 25, 2026 (photo: Christophe Paul / USDA / cc2.0).

The U.S. Forest Service is in damage control.

Almost two weeks ago, we published an article documenting the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in its 121-year history — the gutting of its headquarters, the elimination of every regional office, and the destruction of the largest forestry research program on Earth. The article widely circulated on social media, reaching hundreds of thousands of readers.

If I was starting over

Fly fishing advice for my younger self

by Todd Tanner - Tuesday, Apr 14th, 2026

Photo: Jeremy Roberts / Conservation Media.

While it’s still a little hard for me to believe, I’ve actually been fly fishing since Ronald Reagan was president. And the fact that I’ve been at it so long — I started guiding on the Henry’s Fork and the Madison in 1992, and writing about the sport on a national level a couple of years later — had me wondering what type of advice I’d offer myself if I could go back in time and slip a note in my younger self’s pocket.

So here, on the chance it might prove helpful to at least a few of you, is what I came up with:

$100 million for Canada's Atlantic salmon: What does it mean for recovery?

Canada's PM Carney directs millions to Atlantic salmon

by Chris Hunt - Thursday, Apr 9th, 2026

An Atlantic salmon from the Flowers River in Labrador, Canada (photo: Camden Spear).

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced last week “the largest investment in wild Atlantic salmon conservation in Canadian history” by funding the country’s National Strategy to Ensure the Future of Atlantic Salmon to the tune of $81.7 million over five years.

Imagination is more important than knowledge

There is no better way to explain relativity than the difference between casting from a boat and casting from shore

by Tim Schulz - Saturday, Apr 4th, 2026

Photo: Chad Shmukler.

My good friend and mentor, Professor Earl, straightens me out more often than a spring creek angler uncurls their tippet. Professor Earl, for example, taught me that bananas, tomatoes, and eggplants are berries, but strawberries and raspberries aren’t. He also showed me how the Bluetooth logo is made up of two Nordic runes, ᚼ and ᛒ, which are initials of a king named Harald Bluetooth. He taught me what a rune was, too, of course.

“Did you see that movie about the atomic bomb?” Professor Earl asked the other day. “Oppenheimer?”