Andy Kitchener
Co-founder and R&D Director of Semperfli fly tying materials and founder of The Essential Fly, UK fly-tying innovator known as the "Mad Professor."
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Sep 9, 2026
Pete TyjasHOST
Can you tell me a little bit about what has been taking up, no doubt, a lot of your time of late?
Andy KitchenerGUEST
It's a little book, or rather it's a tome called The Hatch Code, all about what's hatching in rivers and on still waters.
Andy KitchenerGUEST
What's hatching? Why it's hatching? How? What's the hatch temperature? You know, we as fishermen are taught all this entomology and we're taught the Latin.
Andy KitchenerGUEST
Is it on the surface? Is it in the film? Or is it subsurface? You need to know its size and you need to know its colour.
Pete TyjasHOST
And we owe it to the fish that we're actually fishing for to know a little bit about what they're eating, right?