Karnopp sprinkles a dose of reality on the hype surrounding Montana’s Spring Skwala hatch. There’s an inch-long, dark-bodied stonefly, called a Skwala, that shows itself out here in Western Montana in the latter stages of winter (“Spring” is a myth here). The timing of this “hatch” is congruent with cabin fever, unpredictable weather, hungry fish…

  On a late July Sunday Funday, we were invited to a friend’s suburban bass pond while the neighbors were on-vacation. Private neighborhoods with private lakes, stocked with bass and panfish, were pretty common in this part of Illinois and offered fishing opportunities for the children of these communities. The goal was to keep less-desirable…