Author Archives: Louis Cahill
G&G #keepemwet Photo Contest Winners
By Justin Pickett The results from the G&G #keepemwet Photo Contest are in! Thanks to all of you that entered your photos for this year’s Keep ‘Em Wet photo contest! We are always excited to see the photos that our readers submit and, once again, you guys...
Know Your Backing
By Jesse Lowry Seeing your backing on your first bonefish trip is a pretty awesome feeling. You’ve hooked into a fish that can swim nearly 40 mph and your reel is singing a song I would gladly listen to all day. After your reel has been singing...
8 Common Mistakes Anglers Make Fighting Trout
IF I LOOKED BACK ON MY EARLY FLY FISHING DAYS AND HAD TO GRADE MY FISH FIGHTING SKILLS, IT WOULD YIELD A DISCOURAGING REPORT CARD. I lost way more fish than I actually landed during those first few years after picking up a fly rod. I'll...
Sunday Classic / The Borg Don’t Fish
I AM A CHILD OF THE SIXTIES. But my childhood in a small Virginia town in the 1960s was not the long haired, free love, groovey sixties that phrase brings to mind. Mine was the nerdy, plastic rim glasses, popular science sixties. In 1966 when Star...
Saturday Shoutout / Guide Life Alaska
The life of an Alaska guide is one of challenge and reward. I remember seeing my friend Kyle Shay standing in the pouring rain without the first piece of rain gear, looking like a drown rat, his clothes plastered to him. A guest remarked, “you look...