Author Archives: Louis Cahill
The Smithfly Modular Fishing Pack
This weeks featured product is of particular interest to me and I know it’s going to interest a lot of you. I get asked all the time how I keep my cameras dry on the water. It’s not been easy, up to now. Ethan...
Rookie Mistakes Cost Fish
It's such a simple thing to check your fly. It's 6:45 in the back country of the Florida keys. It's mid summer and the water is like glass. I can feel the sweat running down my neck and legs. I'm trying to be as quiet as...
Sunday Classic / Catch And Release Is It’s Own Reward
It was surreal and wonderful. I spent a week last year at the Penland school for craft, teaching a class on bamboo rod making. I was having dinner in the dining hall one evening with ten or so folks I’d never met. Eating with new...
F-ing-A Yampa!
IT TAKES A FEW MINUTES TO SET IN, WE ARE ON ONE OF THE GREATEST TROUT RIVERS IN THE WORLD AND THE FISH ARE GOING OFF AND WE ARE TOTALLY ALONE. Wal-Mart, Frisco, CO, 7:45AM. I lift a small canister from an end cap display. "Pods, got...
Sunday Classic / The Flies of Our Fathers
I recently visited my home town in Virginia for a funeral. Although the occasion was a sad one it was the largest gathering of my family in some time and as you would expect there was a good deal of nostalgia and sharing of family...