The history of GFF

The Global FlyFisher started as a strike of luck, a flap of a butterfly's wing, a mere coincidence - more than 10 years ago.

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GFF Timeline Aug 19th 1994 Midwest FlyTyer goes online via the URL: www.interaccess.com/~sbs/   Now defunkt Jan 1st 1995 MWFlytyer.com is born   Steve creates the MidWest FlyTyer home page Oct 10th 1995 Fishing Denmark is born   Martin's newsletter-like mail document on fishing in Denmark, which he has been mailing to people, gets transformed into a web page Nov 15th 1996 Martin and Steve meet for the first time   GFF's founding fathers meet at the International FlyTyers Symposium in New Jersey Jan 1st 1998 Raske's New England Streamer page is born   History, patterns, swaps and tricks - all about NE Streamers Aug 10th 1998 Martin visits with Steve in Chicago, IL   They both tie at a local fly show Jan 1st 1999 Raske creates the Streamers list at Mint   The mailing list still exists. It now runs as a Yahoo! group. Apr 20th 1999 GFF Grand Opening   The announcement is made. GFF as we know it is born. Nov 1st 1999 Raske joins GFF with the Streamers page   He is on the lookout for server space. GFF provides it through the partnership Dec 15th 1999 Bob P joins GFF   Bob has already contributed articles to all three sites and is a natural fourth partner Dec 25th 1999 First GFF E-greetings service on the air   It would later die because of technical problems Jan 1st 2000 The wallpaper page aires   This is the single most succesful activity on GFF Jan 8th 2000 GFF is heading for 1000 visitors a day   We're roaring! We usually have a bout 6-700 visitors a day, but these last days we have slowly grown to close to a thousand! The 5th was 928, the 6th 911. Let's get it up there! A thousand a day - every day! Jan 19th 2000 All four GFF partners meet at The Fly Fishing Show 2000   Until this day (mid July 2005) the only time all four have met physically Feb 1st 2000 GFF venture into banner ads - and out again   Administration vastly surpasses potential advantages - not to speak of income (or lack of same) Mar 20th 2000 Steve Visits Martin in Denmark for the first time   And goes to Bornholm Jun 23rd 2000 The first GFF newsletter goes out   Number of subscriptions grow to 300 Sep 8th 2000 Martin visits with Steve in Parker, CO   Fishing and GFF planning is done for a couple of weeks. Nov 29th 2000 The last newsletter leaves GFF - subject is: Newsletter Glitches   The newsletter shuts down due to technical problems Jan 22nd 2002 We get the first order into our online shop   We sell caps and shirts Apr 2nd 2002 Steve Visits Denmark for the second time   And goes to Bornholm again Nov 17th 2002 A new automated system goes online   Consistent section front pages, keywords and sitemap is introduced Aug 15th 2003 GFF's weblog goes online   We also want a blog - now we have Blog Creek Sep 18th 2003 We get the last order into our online shop, which has actually already closed   It's hard to make money on the web. Our expenses, particularly to postage, are significantly larger than the income. Jun 8th 2004 GFF now has an RSS feed   Want GFF on your site? Apr 10th 2005 A new server is installed   The old 350 MHz Pentium retires

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A few random articles for your entertainment Fishy art: Yoshikazu Fujioka Ever since GFF partner Martin Joergensen first discovered Yoshikazu Fujioka's Japanese web site, which was amongst the first fishing related pages he ever found on the web, he was fascinated with Fujioka's art. Now GFF can present images from "Trouts and Seasons of the Mountain Streams". August 10th 2007 The Basic Concept This is the first article in the GFF Tube Fly Theme: An introduction to the concept of tube flies and some arguments for using tubes rather than hooks. The article will give you a basic knowledge about tube flies and prepare you for the rest of the theme. August 16th 2007 Heads This is the end that counts to to most anglers: where the mouth is and where the fly is supposed to go. All these fish opened theirs over a hook, and they paid for it with a portrait. Pictures of fish from the very small sand eel to the very large steelhead. September 6th 2005 Winter walk Since the winter has covered most of the coastal water with ice in the Baltic and fishing is near impossible, GFF partner Martin Joergensen has taken a walk in an area near Copenhagen, where a stream usually attracts large sea trout during the winter. January 29th 2006