Category Archives: The Hot Ticket
The Tequeely Streamer
By Bob Reece Some patterns simply brighten up a fly box with their aesthetics. Hopefully, if they’re in your box, their visual appeal is matched by their effectiveness. This tandem of traits is true for the Tequeely streamer. After extensive research I was unable to...
Add Some Fish Appeal To Those Old Flies!
By Justin Pickett We all have one…..The box full of rejects, misfits, oddballs, freaks…. deplorables. These are the flies that have been bought by you. Given to you. Found by you. Or, likely, tied by your own hands… possibly in a bourbon-fueled rage the night before a...
It’s Good To Be The Hero…I Guess?
By Louis Cahill Everybody wants to catch the big fish. The skiff glides over the flat calm water, running from the dark of night into the blue and pink Rorschach test of the coming dawn. Every few minutes Jessie Regestor, our guide, kills the throttle and makes...
Finding the Hidden Carp
By Dan Frazier “FLASH YOUR BREAK LIGHTS A THOUSAND TIMES BEFORE WE TURN OFF OR THE CAR BEHIND YOU WILL SMASH INTO YOUR REAR END,” TREVOR YELLED THROUGH MY PHONE. I was following him through downtown Denver at 50 mph on our way to a second spot...
Sacred Fishing Holes
By Alice Tesar It might have been the coyotes that kept me awake the night prior. More likely it was thoughts about the section of river we planned to visit that day. I’d heard a lot about the spot and debated it’s worthiness. I had heard that...