Jim Casada is a longtime editor-at-large and books columnist for Sporting Classics. His writing has appeared in almost every national outdoor-related magazine, and he has had more than 5,000 articles published in newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals. He is author of nineteen books, former president of OWAA, and founding board member of the Professional Outdoor Media Association. He is a recipient of the Federation of Fly Fishers' Arnold Gingrich Memorial Award and several other outdoor-related awards. He lives in Rock Hill, South Carolina, where he and his late wife, Ann, developed and tested recipes for the numerous cookbooks they wrote together over the years.