Category Archives: Fishing Stories
Dreaming of Steelhead
Not epic, fish hoisting, hero shoting, steelhead fishing but, ass backwards, pointless, penitent steelhead fishing. Swinging tiny flies on floating lines in the turbid, chocolate waters of spring run off (and this is my favorite part) in Colorado's Black Canyon. If you're not a steelheader,...
Not Just Anybody’s Saint Vrain
By Louis Cahill "IF YOU CLIMB INTO THE CAB OF THAT PICKUP WITH JOHN YOU'LL FIND THAT WHERE YOU WIND UP CAN, ONLY IN THE MOST EXISTENTIAL TERMS, BE CALLED A FISHING TRIP." It's about seven-thirty on a Saturday morning. It's mid-September and the chilly Colorado air...
Every Long Wade Starts With A Single Step
By Louis Cahill After a year of recovery I tentatively made my first step into a trout stream. I can not tell you how good it feels to be back on my feet, and for those feet to be cold and wet. I have fished a few...
Who’s Your Buddy?
What makes a good angler a great angler? Fly fishing is a life long pursuit. That may be what I love the most about it. No matter how good you become, there is always a next level. Around every bend some new revelation. A lifetime of...
It Ain’t Much But It’s A Lot
This little fish is a big deal to me. Here’s something I haven't said in quite a while. I went fishing this weekend. That’s right, for the first time since my bonefish trip in June I picked up a fly rod and fished. It wasn’t anything...