Author Archives: Louis Cahill
The Sugar Foot
I SPEND AS MUCH TIME AS POSSIBLE WATCHING BONEFISH CHASE FLIES. If you do it long enough you're bound to learn something. In the average presentation you want to lead and cross a fish. Therefore, when the bonefish first sees your fly, he sees its profile....
The Smithfly Switch Belt and Digi pouch, Fly Fishing Gear That I Can’t Live Without
EVERY NOW AND THEN A PRODUCT COMES ALONG THAT CHANGES YOUR LIFE. An innovation that suits your needs so exactly that you wonder if you've been talking in your sleep. Some gadget, like your iPhone, that leaves you wondering how you lived without it. Well, I have...
Sunday Classic / The White Tiger
It was a windy day in November on the west side of South Andros. My buddy Bruce Chard had tied up a fly he called the White Tiger. It was big and gaudy and orange and every time it hit the water the bonefish went...
Saturday Shoutout / Skiff Republic, Orvis and TU on Teaching Kids to Fly Fish
My friend Marshall Cutchin spent a little time on the flats with his kids recently and wrote a really thoughtful essay about it. It got me thinking. Teaching kids is important. It's important to them and important to the sport but possibly even more important...
The CDC Blood Midge
MIDGE PATTERNS CAN BE REMARKABLY EFFECTIVE FOR TROUT. Depending on how you count them there could be over a thousand species of midge. That's a lot of choices for the discerning trout. There are almost as many choices for the angler and a midge obsession can...