Category Archives: The Hot Ticket
Soft Presentation With Tim Rajeff
Tim Rajeff shows you two effective styles of soft presentation casts. Whether you’re offering a #20 spinner to a sipping trout or tossing a toad to a lunker tarpon, a soft presentation is key to success. Too many anglers struggle with making an accurate cast that...
Standing in the River Carrying a Torch
Standing in the River Carrying a Torch A different kind of love story. Men and fish parted ways a long time ago. You couldn't call it an amiable divorce. The fish got everything. The mountain streams, the lazy winding rivers, the deep blue sea, everything. Men had...
Go Barbless For Big Pike
By Jason Tucker “One sunny afternoon in Labrador.” I love saying that phrase. One sunny afternoon in Labrador, the dry fly bite for land-locked salmon and brook trout had trailed off to nothing and we were looking for a distraction. We decided to fish for pike. One...
Wild Steelhead on the Menu?
By Alex Lovett-Woodsum The latest assault on our fisheries? Seafood Watch recommends eating wild OP steelhead. In the latest of a series of truly baffling assaults on our country’s precious natural resources, Seafood Watch—a program initiated by the Monterey Bay Aquarium to encourage responsible consumer seafood choices—just...
Stacking Running Line For Better Spey Casting: Video
How do you shoot a hundred feet of running line without a tangle? It’s easier than it sounds. There’s a very specific technique for stacking running line when spey casting. When it’s done right, everything comes off without a hitch. If you are learning to cast...