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Automakers keep glorifying bad behavior

Kia is the latest in a long line of auto brands celebrating "creek riding"

by Chris Hunt - Monday, Feb 5th, 2024

Scene from a TV commercial for Kia's EV9 featuring the new SUV driving straight down the bed of a creek. Image credit: Kia Motors.

Over the years, I’ve prepared myself for the inevitable. It happens almost every year around this time, and it’s a bad look for automakers who, despite certainly knowing better, continue to glorify a driving practice that should make every fly fisher cringe.

Be prepared for the next round of kitschy television advertisements that show just how capable new SUVs are of trashing perfectly good trout water. The latest culprit? Kia America and its ad for its EV9 GT-Line e-AWD crossover.

Connecticut angler there yesterday should have been there today

This time-space angling paradox just might change everything

by Tim Schulz - Wednesday, Jan 31st, 2024

Woo baby, today was one to remember on the East [pictured above], West, and mainstem (photo: Andrew Savidge).

STORRS, CT—A University of Connecticut Professor of Logic, Leann Jackson, is believed to be the first fly angler to fish the famed Delaware River yesterday when she should have been there today. An avid angler for much of her life, Ms. Jackson regularly makes the four-hour drive to upper New York to fish the west, east, and main branches of one of the nation’s greatest trout rivers.

Gear we love right now: January 2024

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

by Hatch Magazine - Sunday, Jan 28th, 2024

Photo: Hatch Magazine.

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 sound of thunder

Lessons learned at the School of Hard Knocks

by Tim Schulz - Tuesday, Jan 23rd, 2024

Photo: Uncredited.

Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
—Ray Bradbury, A Sound of Thunder

The sign on the wall caught my attention the way a Mepps silver spinner sometimes catches a trout’s:

Ignite Your Day With the Sunrise Burrito

Conservation groups clash over how to save Alaskan king salmon

With Chinook salmon populations continuing to struggle, is it time to list king salmon under the Endangered Species Act?

by Chris Hunt - Saturday, Jan 20th, 2024

Chinook salmon (photo: USFWS / cc2.0).

A conservation non-profit is asking the National Marine Fisheries Service to list a host of Gulf of Alaska Chinook salmon populations — known more commonly as king salmon — as “threatened” or “endangered” under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, and to designate critical habitat for dwindling king stocks in southern Alaska waters.