Category Archives: The Hot Ticket
Making A Rattan Fly Rod Grip, Part 2: Video
Here’s a second great video on making a rattan grip for your fly rod. Hopefully your rattan grip project is coming along. In this video Matt Draft, of Proof Fly Fishing, will show you how to put the finishing touches on your rattan grip that really...
The Snap-T Cast With 2-Hand Rod: Video
The Snap-T cast is an essential for any 2-hand angler. You really only need to know a couple of casts to be an effective angler with spey or switch rods. One of the casts you just can’t live without is the Snap-T. This easy and powerful...
Fishing The Woolly Bugger
By Louis Cahill There are a lot of “right ways” to fish a Woolly Bugger. I know, I know, this is super basic but after we published the article “The Woolly Bugger Isn’t all that, Or is it?,” I got emails asking how to fish the Bugger....
The Muddler
By Jason Tucker It was a beautiful, bright day, the river running high and clean. I was fishing near the mountainous junction of the Carolinas and Georgia on a beautiful trout stream and not having much luck. I caught a couple of small stockers on a...
Fly Fishing Runoff Can Mean Fish On
by Johnny Spillane HAVE YOU EVER SHOWED UP AT A RIVER AND FOUND THAT INSTEAD OF THE CRYSTAL CLEAR WATER YOU WERE EXPECTING, YOU’RE STARING AT CHOCOLATE MILK? Here in the Rocky Mountain this is a relatively common experience. It can happen for a number of reasons,...