Category Archives: The Hot Ticket
G&G / Fishpond Fishing Dog Photo Contest: Winner

If that dog can’t find fish I’ll eat my trucker hat. Congratulations to Ryan Forbus. This photo of his fishing buddy Mason, a Chesapeake Bay Retriever. That’s as regal a fishing dog as I’ve ever seen. For his good looks, Mason will enjoy a new collar,...
It’s All In The Hips

By Justin Pickett Ever find yourself making the same poor presentation over, and over again? Or maybe it’s not that the cast is poor, but you are trying to work different areas of a run and your fly keeps landing near the same spot each time....
Epic Argentina Double Header: Feb 3-13, 2018

This is truly a once-in-a-lifetime fly fishing adventure. I have fished some amazing places but none offer the diversity, solitude and hospitality of Argentina. Floating the storied rivers of Patagonia, you get the sense of what it would have been like to be the first angler...
Taking The Bow, A Bonefish Beginning

By Bob Boughman So you want to try your hand at catching a bonefish or two? Never have done it? Stories of 80’ backhanded casts into 25 mph winds needing to hit a dime-sized target got you a bit concerned? Yeah me too, but not...
Downstream: The Forgotten Mend

By Devin Olsen I’ve been fortunate to fish with a lot of anglers fishing a lot of styles over 20+ years of fly angling. One of the things that has separated the great ones from the good-to-mediocre ones is their understanding and execution of mending. While...
