Category Archives: The Hot Ticket
Carp, Enough of the Golden Bones
Sub-title- It’s Time to Give Carp Their Due Some time back—I believe 15-20 years ago—anglers in Traverse City, Michigan, began calling carp “Golden Bones,” and things haven’t been the same since. Traverse City is a big city/small town set at the end of the twin arms of...
Weather Dictates When and How I Fish My Terrestrials
Every year, I'm asked by clients, when is the best time for them to come up and experience the terrestrial bite? For years, I kept a terrestrial fishing journal to help me better serve my clients. The journal documented the arrival times of specific terrestrials...
How Steelhead Rely On Rainbow Trout To Survive
The relationship between Steelhead and resident rainbow trout is one of the most fascinating in nature. There is, of course, a huge argument between anglers over the nature of steelhead and trout, which brings with it a fair amount of animosity. The fish themselves, however, apparently...
Saturday Shoutout / No Longer America
"America without public lands is no longer America.”- Randy Newberg “Transferring Control of Federal Lands Would Devastate Hunting and Fishing” That’s the headline of this of Hal Herring’s detailed and passionate article in Field and Stream. This is the best piece I’ve seen written on this...
Chasin’ Sea Runners, NZ style
By Chris Dore So we don’t have any Sea Trout here in New Zealand as many would know them, but we have some great sea run brown trout fishing. Our 'Sea Runners' are just your standard, wild brown trout simply exercising their efficient feeding patterns: they...