Category Archives: The Hot Ticket
Know Your Backing
By Jesse Lowry Seeing your backing on your first bonefish trip is a pretty awesome feeling. You’ve hooked into a fish that can swim nearly 40 mph and your reel is singing a song I would gladly listen to all day. After your reel has been singing...
8 Common Mistakes Anglers Make Fighting Trout
IF I LOOKED BACK ON MY EARLY FLY FISHING DAYS AND HAD TO GRADE MY FISH FIGHTING SKILLS, IT WOULD YIELD A DISCOURAGING REPORT CARD. I lost way more fish than I actually landed during those first few years after picking up a fly rod. I'll...
The Belgian Cast
A better fly cast for windy days. You know that feeling you get when you watch a school of bonefish swim away while you squirm and wrench your arm out of socket trying to get your fly out of your back? Yeah, me too. Casting with...
Ain’t No Mama Like The One I Caught
By Alice Tesar MORE TIMES THAN NOT, WHEN I LISTEN TO ANGLERS TALK ABOUT WHY THEY FLY FISH, IT COMES DOWN TO THE INTIMACY THE ANGLER FEELS WITH THE RIVER AND THE CATCH. Now imagine you’ve taken your relationship with your catch to the next level....
Fly Fishing Bass Ponds 102
By Kent Klewein I promised everyone I'd write a Fly Fishing Bass Ponds 102, if people showed enough interest from my 101 post. I was blown away from the emails and comments that flooded in, after the first post went live. I covered quite a few...