Category Archives: The Hot Ticket
Spey Casting: Straight Is Better Than Long
When you’re swinging flies with two-hand rods, landing the cast straight is always better than making a long cast. Look, I’m as guilty as any of us. We all want to launch the fly into orbit around the sun. It feels good, it looks good, and...
Faces of Cuba
By Dan Frasier There is a specific vibration that runs up your line, through your rod, into your veins and directly to your core when a tarpon in preparing a leap. It’s not unlike the sensation I’d get when I worked for an electrician and would...
Saturday Shoutout / WTF Now? Bahamas Edition
If you are like me you are emotionally fatigued over the rollercoaster that is recent Bahamian fishing regulation. As of January 9th, new double secret Bahamian flats fishing regulations are in effect. They are confusing, vague, completely unimplemented and, for many, disheartening. Are they the end...
10 Yellow Sally Fly Patterns That I Love
When I think back on all the times I've fished Yellow Sally stonefly hatches over the years, I honestly can't remember ever having a bad fishing experience. If I can find them on the water, I usually have no problem getting trout to take my...
Saturday Shoutout / Fall Run
My favorite steelhead video. This video, by Todd Moen, is not new but I still love it as much as the first time I saw it. Anglers Jakob Lund and my good friend Jeff Hickman put on a steelhead clinic on the upper Clackamus, including the...