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GFF turns 30!
30 years ... thirty years, like three decades. That’s how old this site is, and that’s actually quite a feat.
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Books
All you ever wanted to read about fly fishing and tying
Ginny vs the Four French Bulldogs of the Apocalypse
Ben Jailler is a UK fly angler and author, whose new book entitled "Fish Camp Fail" bears this interesting sequence of events (or promises?) on the cover:
Go Fishing -> Control the Fear -> Avoid Were...
Read more here
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Fish Better
Become a better fly fisher
Tom’s Leather Fly Reel Cases
About three years ago I had the idea to make a leather fly reel case for two of my homemade fly reels, also encouraged by my wife who makes beautiful bags. These are usually made of fabric or a combin...
See how here
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Tasty fish recipes
Fishing the Danish way
No, this is not about some novel way of catching sea trout or how to get a large Danish salmon, but about remembering to relax when you fish.
Learn more here
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Forage fish
Streamers imitation species
Golden shiner
This is a well know species that is easily identified. Key characteristics are the strongly compressed rather elliptical body, a small pointed head, strongly downward curving lateral ling, a long sickle-shaped anal fin, and a thin scaleless keel on the midline of the belly behind the pelvic fins.
More golden shiner information in this article
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Doing a Step-By-Step
This article teaches you how to do a proper series of step-by-step photos of a fly pattern being tied - also known as an SBS.
Good advice is found here
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Gear
All the misc. stuff
The Perfect Seven
Are you looking for a perfect single-hand gear set-up for salmon fishing? Here’s Nils Folmer Jorgensen’s preferred tools, how he ended there and his honest opinion on why.
See his selection here
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Favorite Flies for Baltic Seatrout
In this book Martin has tried to cover his favorite fly patterns, and has included 29 of the flies that he and his best fishing friends use 90% of the time when they fish for Danish coastal seatrout.
See pictures of the book here
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Salmon fishing in Iceland, where to start
Iceland with its fascinating extremes and great runs of salmon is a dream destination for many anglers. Here’s where to start.
Get the advice here
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Patterns
All the great fly patterns, fly tying recipes. Streamers, nymphs, dry flies, salmon flies, saltwater flies.
Copper Braid
This type of braid is found in electronics stores, but is a great new addition to the fly tyer’s arsenal of useful copper products
See some patterns here
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Podcasts
The sound of the Global FlyFisher. Recordings from fishing trips - Fly fishing radio shows - Listen online or download as mp3's
Podcast intro
Go fishing with Global Flyfisher on your mp3-player, your iPod or just download our podcast to your computer and listen. The first test is up, and you can enjoy 20 minutes on a cold Danish January-coast with GFF partner Martin Joergensen and his dog.
Read more about our podcast here
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Reels
More than a line holder
Sea Trout Gear
This article will try to point you in the right direction when choosing equipment for coastal fishing for sea trout in Denmark and the Baltic. This kind of fishing usually involves a lot of casting. A lot! So the gear has to be easy to cast with - time and time again.
Get the advice here
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Entertaining trip reports
A year’s fishing in Argentina
Argentinian Pedro Miles tells the story of his fishing in Argentina during the year 2022, and man, there’s been some fishing going on!
Read the report here
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New and old fly fishing and tying products reviewed
Big Flies Photo Gadget
I have covered lighting flies for photography in various articles, and mentioned Siberian Ramil Yamaliev’s gadgets before. Here’s another one.
See the review here
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Rod Building
Those who build their own fly rods
Colt Actionrod Restoration
This is the story of a well used 9’0”, two-piece, eight weight glass fiber fly rod, which was given as a gift to a young, budding fly fisher, passed on from a grandfather to a grandson, but with a lot...
Read the story here
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Rods
The rods we handled
Microspey rods
An article about how spey style casting can be performed with rods rated for single hand, and how to build and line up your own microspey or micro Skagit rod.
Read more here.
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Nick Thomas
Nick Thomas lives in South Wales. He started fly fishing on Scottish hill lochs many years ago and continues to design, tie and fish flies for trout, grayling, carp, bass and anything else that’s goin...
Read Nick's bio here
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Streamer guests
Streamers Guest Section
Mike Boyer Streamers
Growing up on the West Coast, I learned about East Coast fly patterns and tyers mostly from books, and the occasional television show. I remember seeing Lee Wulff and Joe Brooks on the American Sportsman show as a youngster, fishing for Brookies.
Click here to read more
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Streamer swaps
Flies exchanged
Jim Warner Swap
Jim Warner has been one of the most influential fly tyers in New England, especially for those who spend their time trolling and fishing streamers in the many lakes and ponds of the region. The gang of the streamers@ list recently had a swap of his great fly patterns.
Click here to see the results.
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Streamer tips
Tie better streamers
The Rangely style
The Rangeley Style of streamer tying is the style used by Carrie Stevens to tie her famous Grey Ghost pattern. This unique features of this style of tying are that the wing components are assembled and glued together before attaching to the hook, and that the wings are not mounted on top of the hook shank but slightly down the sides of the hook shank.
See how to tie it here.
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Streamers
What originally was Raske's New England Streamer Page
Streamers 365 joins the Global FlyFisher!
The renowned streamer aficionado site streamers365.com is shutting down, but GFF has "inherited" all its fantastic content.
Read about it here
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Streamers365
The streamer aficionado site that was Streamers365.com
Songo Smelt Bucktail Fly Tying Pattern
The Songo Smelt is a sweet little bucktail perfect for casting out in search of cruising landlocked salmon, brook trout and bass. The fly gets its...
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The Lab
Strange contraptions for your tippets
The Test Tube
A weird and futuristic construction from the archives. Really easy to tie... eh, make... uhm... construct... Metal, plastic and glue.
See how to go about it here
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Theme section
Sections with the best articles on certain subjects
Tarpon fly fishing
Our best tarpon articles on gear, methods, patterns, destinations, tips, videos and much more.
See the theme here
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Tie Better
Learn to tie better flies
Hair stackers
A bit of stacker education and stacker philosophy is due, so here it is: quite a lot of information about hair stackers
Much more here
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Tying tools
All the fancy fly-tying gadgets
DIY dubbing brush maker
Bretislav has a little machine in his collection of fly-tying tools. It was made by his father about 20 years back.
See how to make it here
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Videos
The fly fishing videos we watch
Celebrating 10,000 videos
So, the Global FlyFisher’s video section just passed 10,000 videos. And suitably enough the 10K mark was a Davie McPhail video showing how to tie a muddler.
Read a bit more here
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What is...
Fly-fishing concepts and terms explained
What is a fly rod?
Fly rods are fishing rods built specifically for fly-fishing and are similar to any fishing rod in many ways, but also very different.
More about fly rods here
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Writings
Anecdotes, short stories, poetry... even novels
The Water’s Violin
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Poem by Jed Feffer
Greensboro, Vermont
April, 2021
The Water’s Violin
The grass is unmowed and swaying;
The currents of the river are clouded in bugs.
In hand y...
Read it here
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