Category Archives: The Hot Ticket
Keep Your Flies Below Your Eyes
By Justin Pickett The dense canopies of the southeastern streams that I grew up on have groomed my casting stroke over the years. Favoring function over style, I adopted a low, sidearm casting stroke that has served me well over the years. For my clients that haven’t...
The Incredible Ethical Egg
By Herman DeGala When I started fly fishing years ago, I was told that fishing egg patterns was indicative of questionable angling ethics. What I discovered was that it was not so much the flies themselves, but how they were used. I don’t fish to spawning...
Time To Un-Match The Hatch
By Johnny Spillane Now that is a hatch! Every year around mid April we start to see Blue Wing Olives on the Green River below Flaming Gorge. Most years the hatch is amazing, some years it is truly epic. This was one of those years. The best...
We All Have Our Vises, Mine’s a Regal
I made my first tying vise. I know what you're thinking, but this vise was not a pair of hemostats duct taped to the back of a chair. I grew up in a machine shop and own two metal lathes and a host of other...
2 Guys, 1 Trout
I always enjoy fly-fishing more when it’s a team sport. I think that’s why I enjoy saltwater fly fishing so much. The interaction between guide and angler creates something special. A shared accomplishment and a shared reward. Not unlike some of my best days of trout...