Author Archives: Louis Cahill
Fishsicles
Kent's eight weight is bent double, the big steelhead finally within range of the net. We're in a tough spot. This fish has taken us downstream as far as we can go. We're backed up against a bridge with a deep hole on one side...
Don’t Go Fishing Without Your Bullets
By Louis Cahill Air rifle pellets make cheap and effective weights for fly-fishing. The thing I love about fly fishing is, there is always something to learn. I would have never thought of this simple fly fishing life-hack if I hadn’t fished in Argentina. Imported fishing gear...
Cahill’s Glass Shrimp
A few years back, on a trip to Andros South in the Bahamas, I had a day when I was just tagging along with some friends shooting photos. Not having a rod in my hand and fishing being a little slow I found myself reverting...
The Articulated Aggravator and Dubbing Loop Platen
By Herman deGala As with most of the flies that I design I was trying to solve a problem when I created the Articulated Aggravator. I was looking for a fly that was different from what I was already fishing for smallies, amongst the riprap of a...
Three Ways We Lose Fish
by Jason Tucker DUSK FALLS SLOWLY ON A JUNE SUMMER EVENING. Zach and I stood knee deep in the tannic flowing water of a Northern Michigan stream, the calls of the day birds urgent as they headed to bed, before the night birds emerged. We waited, the...