Author Archives: Louis Cahill
5 Tips To Stop Breaking Off Bonefish
By Louis Cahill If you're breaking off bonefish, there's probably and easy fix. Someone asked me not long ago about losing bonefish due to tippet breaking. It happens to the best of us but there are only a couple of ways for it to happen and each...
CE Tech Innovations Pedestal Base
By Bob Reece A firm foundation for your vise is critical to the success of your fly tying efforts. This is especially true for tiers who use pedestal bases. For years I have searched for one that gave my vise true stability. I finally found one that...
Sunday Classic / Get A Better Grip On The Spey Rod
ALL FLY CASTING IS ABOUT CONTROL AND TIMING, NOT POWER. This is never more true than in Spey casting. Perhaps because there are more moving parts to a Spey cast, rod and line control are crucial. This is especially challenging for the beginner whose muscle memory...
Saturday Shoutout / Yin and Yang in New Zealand
Every day on the water is a new beginning. If you fly fish for any time at all, you’ll quickly realize that it’s Mother Nature’s show and we are all just day players. There are lessons around every corner and some of them are in humility....
River Of Dreams
By Louis Cahill I DREAM OF WAKING IN A FOREST. Or where a forest had been, now sooty black. Smoke swirls, orange eyes peer from hunks of coal. Charred trees accuse the sky. White ashes whirl in the air, angels lifted to heaven. I've slept through some...