Posted on February 14 2018
Another improvement of an original, the “innards” are still the same, the smooth-starting drag system that took Hatch from zero to hero… from unknown to the top of the fly-fishing food chain in less than a decade. And durability? We’ve fished the same Hatch reels from Tierra del Fuego, to Alaska, to Russia, to the Bahamas, to the Amazon jungle, and have never had to do anything but rinse them off. The new ones come in beautiful colors, one of which will be paired with the Scott G for the year-end match campaign. $430 and up; hatchoutdoors.com.
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