Category Archives: The Hot Ticket
Slowing Down and Casting Easier Can Improve Your Fly Cast
By Kent Klewein Read the title of this post and try to live by it. It's my attempt in "one sentence", to help fly anglers quickly improve their fly casting, and it's made me twice fly caster and fisherman I am today. There's lots more to fly...
Echo’s Bad Ass Glass Quickshot
By Justin Pickett The resurgence of fiberglass rods over the past few years has been interesting. Rods that could have been found on eBay, or in antique shops, for a few bucks have suddenly bloomed into this new identity of high-end versions with words like “technology” and...
Creative Visualization For Anglers
Creative visualization is a tool used by the most successful athletes in the world and it offers powerful applications for fly anglers. I was talking the other day with a friend who has had a life long career in amateur and professional sports. Now in his...
Unhang My Fly You Villain Stump!
One of the unavoidable happenings in fly fishing is the oh-so-wonderful snag. Overhead limbs, rocks, submerged timber, rhodo, your net man… you name it, it’s out there just waiting to snatch your fly from the air. A lot of the time it’s game over for your...
Choosing the Right Tippet Size
I've talked quite a bit about how important it is to correctly select the proper tippet size when your fly fishing for trout. Most fly fisherman have no problem grasping this, after all, small fly patterns generally call for using smaller tippet and big fly patterns...