Category Archives: The Hot Ticket
Don’t Go Fishing Without Your Bullets
By Louis Cahill Air rifle pellets make cheap and effective weights for fly-fishing. The thing I love about fly fishing is, there is always something to learn. I would have never thought of this simple fly fishing life-hack if I hadn’t fished in Argentina. Imported fishing gear...
The Articulated Aggravator and Dubbing Loop Platen
By Herman deGala As with most of the flies that I design I was trying to solve a problem when I created the Articulated Aggravator. I was looking for a fly that was different from what I was already fishing for smallies, amongst the riprap of a...
Small Flies For Big Steelhead
“Most people think, to catch a big fish you have to tie on a Woolly Bugger.” - Christopher Guest Every year some fly fishing magazine publishes an article about fishing small flies for big fish. The quote above, from Christopher Guest’s 2000 film “Best In...
The Permit Story
By Louis Cahill Stop me if you’ve heard this one, and if you’ve spent any time fly fishing salt water, you have. I was talking with my buddy Bruce Chard yesterday. Thank God for living vicariously through my friends! Since I’ve been dealing with multiple eye surgeries,...
DIY Emergency Boat Anchor: Video
Have you ever lost your boat anchor during a day on the river? If you haven’t, you probably will. Or at least you’ll forget to bring it one day. It can make for a pretty frustrating day of fishing but it doesn’t have to be. There’s...