Category Archives: The Hot Ticket
New Products From Sightline Provisions: Video
Just about every angler is familiar with the leather bracelets sporting metal badges of fish silhouettes. It’s hard to think of a fly fishing accessory that has become as immediately popular as those Sightline bracelets. They have become the secret handshake of fly fishing. A way...
Stretch Thy Fly Line
Are you looking for more a little more distance in your cast? Is your fly line not shooting through your guides as easy as it should? Is it lacking that fresh from the box high floating buoyancy? Are you spending more time untangling your fly...
Echo Fly Rods For 2018: Video
Some dynamite new rods from Echo fly-fishing. It’s always fun for me to talk fly rods with tim Rajeff. This year Echo has three very cool new offerings. A premium trout-spey family that’s one of the lightest two handers I’ve ever held, The new Shadow X...
Is Fly-Fishing a Cult?
I’m starting to wonder if I have joined a cult. I picked up a copy of “The Mission” magazine at IFTD. It’s a nice looking book. Good printing, nicely bound, free, everything I like in a magazine. I’ll be honest, I haven't read it past the...
Streamer Retrieves For Different Current Speeds
I've talked in great detail about streamer fishing since I began writing articles for Gink & Gasoline. Most of my time has been spent talking about color and pattern choice, streamer gear/rigging for both big and small water and how to locate and target prime...