Koona Fishing Tips

What Makes Fishing Fun

Learn To Fish: It’s Fun! Fishing is a fun and tranquil sport that lets you spend quiet time with your friends, family and with Mother Nature. Fresh water fishing is a sport involving the catching of fish in lakes, rivers and streams. It involves a lot of patience, challenge and a lot of acquired skill […] Read more

Fresh Caught Fish Cooking Preparation

Fresh Caught Fish Cooking Preparation To maintain the delicate flavor of a newly caught freshwater or saltwater fish, this must be handled properly to avoid spoilage. Not to mention preserving the fish with pleasing odor. There are ways to properly prepare and maintain the quality just after the catch of the fish into a sumptuous […] Read more

Some Basic Facts about Fishing Gear

Some Basic Facts about Fishing Gear In fishing, it is very important to an anglers success that he starts with the proper equipment. He may purchase or own the finest equipment in the world, but when it is assembled and put into use, it may prove to be a very decided handicap. To guard against […] Read more

CalTrout Warns of “Almost Certain” Extinction Events for California’s Native Fish

The conservation group ties the repeal of the federal endangerment finding to accelerating threats against the state’s salmon, steelhead, and trout—and launches a once-a-decade scientific assessment to track the damage. California Trout issued a stark warning on February 18: without science-based federal climate action, the state’s wild Read more

Colorado TU Turns the Tying Season Into a Gift for the Next Generation

A statewide tying challenge asks members to stock fly boxes for youth programs before April 1. Image courtesy of Colorado Trout Unlimited Colorado Trout Unlimited has turned the winter tying season into a statewide competition. The organization’s new Tie-4-the-Future Challenge, launched in January, asks members and chapters across the state to Read more

Gone fishing with some clown | Hatch Magazine

While trout fishing on a rural Pennsylvania spring creek a few summers ago, I came upon a five-foot-tall wooden clown standing in the river. Cut from a piece of plywood, and painted in simple shades of red, yellow, and blue, it must have come from one of the small towns a few miles upstream. I […] Read more

The siren song of the Texas redfish | Hatch Magazine

It’s not often that a place sings to you, and calls you in. Some places play more alluring tunes than others, and, while I think it’s safe to say that anglers hear siren songs more than most folks, these magnetic and rhythmic sonnets conjured up by water and fish are always fleeting, always remarkable. For […] Read more

Tying Tuesday: Streamers, Nymphs, and Innovative Emergers

Mid-February can feel like purgatory for the fly angler—ice is creeping off the edges but hatches are still weeks away, and the boat ramp feels like a distant memory. The antidote, as always, is a loaded bobbin and a purpose. This week’s Tying Tuesday brings four patterns that cover serious ground: Cheech’s upgraded Wedge Head […] Read more

Olympic Peninsula Steelhead Won’t Get ESA Protection—Despite “Moderate Risk of Extinction”

NOAA’s decision not to list OP steelhead under the ESA has conservation groups reviewing legal options and demanding immediate action from state and tribal co-managers — all while the peak of the wild winter run is underway. Image by Hone Creative NOAA Fisheries concluded on January 14 that Olympic Peninsula steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) do Read more