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The Morning Hatch - Tuna Blowing Up Fly Rods, Return of a Native Trout, And Tarpon on Top

"The Morning Hatch" is a daily dose of anything fly fishing, human interest, and sometimes from left field. It will be short, sweet, informative, and hopefully entertaining. Enjoy it as a morning starter with your cup of joe.
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Alaskan Guide Mason Cochran for the assist.
Alaskan Guide Mason Cochran for the assist. | photo by Ken Baldwin

In this edition of The Morning Hatch:

Any story by Jess McGlothlin is worth reading. She is an accomplished angler, a skilled photographer, and takes on the most challenging (and often dangerous) fly fishing trips. In this article, she is fly fishing the Darién Gap of Colombia for Tuna. She's not selling anything, giving instructions on how to cast, or reviewing gear. It's just humor and adventure in the wildest of places. - Looking for a Few Good Men

- Native trout making a comeback is always welcome news. - Return of the Redband Rainbow

- An exciting video of fishing for Tarpon with poppers in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. - Tarpon on Poppers | The Holy Well | Official 2023 Fly Fishing Film Tour (F3T)Selection

Looking for a Few Good Men

by Jess McGlothlin - FIELD ETHOS

"Three hours later we have two broken fly rods, three broken fly lines, and one team member in the process of being air-evacuated to Medellín with a ruptured quadriceps tendon. Trying to coordinate a medical evacuation from a boat to a military base to a lodge back to the base to an airstrip to a hospital in Medellín and eventually to the U.S. was a new one for me.

Colombia. It keeps you on your toes." Cont...

Return of the Redband Rainbow

by Angela Montana - Montana OUTDOOR

"Montana’s only native rainbow trout is making a comeback in the northwest corner of the state.

Rainbow trout are common throughout much of our state due to widespread stocking. However, most of the places rainbow trout exist today are outside of its native range in Montana. The lone exception is the Kootenai drainage where you will find native Columbia River interior redband trout, a subspecies commonly known as redband trout." Cont...

Tarpon on Poppers | The Holy Well

by Dorsal Outdoors

Now, have a good day. KB

“The gods do not deduct from man’s allotted span the hours spent in fishing.” - Herbert Hoover

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KEN BALDWIN

Ken Baldwin is a Writer/Editor for Fishing On SI, where he writes stories about fly fishing and the lifestyle that surrounds it. His writing and photography have appeared in Men's Journal, Catch Magazine, Fish Alaska, and the American Angler. He also created and hosted the TV show Season on the Edge, which aired on NBC Sports and in seven countries, showcasing travel, adventure, and culture through the lens of fishing. For twenty years, Ken worked as a fly fishing guide in Alaska, which gave him opportunities to hang out with and photograph the Alaskan brown bear. His experience photographing the brown bear helped him land a job with the Netflix documentary Our Planet 2, narrated by David Attenborough. If you dig deep enough in Ken's resume, you will see that he played the terrorist "Mulkey" in the film Die Hard 2 before fly fishing took over his life. Ken is a graduate of the University of Washington.

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