Category Archives: The Hot Ticket
Deep and Slow
By Alice Tesar The biggest mistake folks make during spring shoulder season in the Rocky Mountains is heading to the desert to mountain bike. I enjoy biking - just like any angler, it gets me to the fishing hole when my car is in the...
Matching the Hatch With Streamers
By Louis Cahill Imitation and presentation, even with streamers. It was a bluebird day and we were launching the boat about 9 AM. No need to get moving any earlier with the chilly morning and the generation schedule. We’d run shuttle and be on the water at...
Little Things Matter: On The Water Tippet
By Bob Reece Successful anglers are built out of sounds habits. Those habits focus not only on the large aspects of fly fishing but also on the small. Within the realm of those petite practices is being aware of the status of your tippet when you’re on...
Fish Streamers in Fast Water and Seal the Deal
Have you ever had a day of streamer fishing when the fish just wouldn’t commit? I had the mother of those days recently. I was fishing streamers from the boat and was literally getting follows every other cast. That’s great, but the fish just wouldn’t eat...
Fly Fishing Is A Journey
I’ll never forget my first trout on the fly. It was tiny. A rainbow. Probably wild, but I wouldn’t have known the difference or even cared at the time. It was memorable primarily because it was a long time coming. I’ll always remember my first steelhead,...