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How to bury a horse

Or, how not to get fishing advice

by Tim Schulz - Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025

Photo: Tim Schulz

“Get the fish on the reel,” the guide said, picking up his net, moving to my side, letting me know he was just as serious about this as he was when he told me trench foot was a genuine risk up here, even in July.

“That’s a flarkên brook trout?” I asked, or, well, screamed, actually.

“Don’t let it under the boat,” he answered.

Five, ten, fifteen, maybe twenty minutes later, I don’t remember, the fish was in the net, and I was sitting on the casting platform, not remembering how I got there, just trying to stop my hands from shaking.

As seas rise, corals can't keep up

As coral growth rates stall, the coastal protections and vital habitats they provide to species like bonefish and permit are shrinking

by Grace van Deelen - Saturday, Oct 18th, 2025

Because of climate change and other stressors, coral reefs in the Caribbean likely won’t grow fast enough to keep up with rising seas (photo: Chad Shmukler).

Coral reefs face myriad challenges, from ocean acidification to warming seas to destructive fishing activities. Sometimes, reefs can rebound from these ecological harms—but only if the coral species assembled on a reef can maintain the required growth rates.

A lonely walk

Alone is therapeutic, lonely inspires worry and internal chaos

by Chris Hunt - Thursday, Oct 16th, 2025

Photo: Chris Hunt.

I’ve always been a casual bird hunter. More of a wingshooting diletante, honestly. Fly fishing is my first passion, and it’s tough for me to drive over a trout stream without stopping, let alone wander the forest trails and creek bottoms looking for grouse without pulling out a fly rod and casting to rising fish instead.

Skwala expands its Thermo lineup with two new midweight offerings

A new baselayer and vest round out Skwala's layering options

by Hatch Magazine - Tuesday, Oct 14th, 2025

Photo: Skwala Fishing.

Smart anglers layer their clothes to meet the challenges of ever-changing conditions, whether they’re on a trout stream on a moody May evening or standing knee-deep in a steelhead river on a chilled October morning that turns into a blue-bird afternoon. Finding the right clothing “cocktail” can be a challenge, given just how frequently Mother Nature changes her mind.

An Alaskan graphite mine races towards an unprecedented approval, but at what cost?

Despite posing serious threats to salmon streams and tribal hunting grounds, the project is being expedited towards approval without yet including legally required input from Inupiaq communities

by Lois Parshley - Friday, Oct 3rd, 2025

The Kigluaik Mountains in Alaska (photo: Cagan Hakki Sekercioglu / Getty Images).

The Kigluaik Mountains stretch across the Seward Peninsula of western Alaska like a spine, their jagged ridges keeping a record of time. The Inupiaq have long read these ridges and valleys as a living story: Fire and fracture have marked the rock, and glaciers’ slow grind polished it. The talus slopes gleam in the low fall sun, meltwater from the snowfields spilling into streams that thread across the map of caribou trails on the tundra below.