No other outdoor pursuit directly depends upon, reveres and celebrates insects like fly fishing. Without healthy, vibrant aquatic insect populations, fly fishers—particularly trout anglers—might as well take up (gulp!) golf.
But what happens when those bugs begin to disappear? To accompany fly angler and journalist Stephen Sautner’s story, “Dude, Where’s My Hatch?” we asked a group of long-time anglers, experienced guides and scientists for their boots-on-the-ground experiences. Their responses are a call to action. As Sautner writes in his story, “The same way steelheaders need to be anti-dam, trout anglers should be pro-bug.”
