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1000!

Celebration: Here at GFF we don't hesitate to celebrate any occasion, which marks a milestone in the the history of this site and its progress. And here's another such milestone: this very article is actually entry number 1000 in our list of entries in the sitemap. A really sharp corner.
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Lake Champ

Dragon: Many years ago, when Colombian Carlos Heinsohn began to tie flies, he didn't have more than a few basic materials and not more than three models of hooks. He wanted a huge dragonfly nymph, so he made one almost entirely with black and brown marabou on a #6 hook with a few wraps of copper wire.
This is the evolution of that fly

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Salmon Fly Directory

Review: This is a massive and impressing work by Chris Mann whose books we hold in high esteem here on the GFF. With more than 1,800 fly patterns listed, each meticulously illustrated in Mann's superior style, this is probably THE title you want as a reference to salmon flies.
Read the review here

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Gear pictures

Better pictures: Martin maintains an archive of flyfishing images together with a bunch of fishing friends. Nowadays it contains almost 12,000 images, and of those about 1,253 or more than 10% are tagged “gear”. They take a lot of gear pictures.
See some and learn how to get better equipment pics here.

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Once in a Blue Moon

Review: After having seen and loved the latest year's large crop of "grunge" movies, it's a blessing to see something, which holds the flag of visual aesthetics high, and uses both editing, sound and commentary to keep you glued to the seat, not because you're afraid to fall off, but because you're spellbound.
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Internet Flies

Shopping: All of a sudden, the new season or a spontaneous fly fishing trip with your best buddy is imminent. At that stage, you may think about ordering flies through an online shop. Selling flies through the Internet is a growing business. There is a vast number of private and commercial suppliers of flies and a large range of prices and qualities.
We look at a few here

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The White

Simplicity: The White is a stable pattern in originator Rasmus Hansen's coastal sea trout flybox, He uses it as a provocation (read: attractor) or as a shrimp imitation, and prefers it for turbulent water and autumn fishing. The fly is simple, one color only, and one of these universal flies that can catch anything.
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The Copper Bully

Gammarus: No sea trout box should be without a small Gammerus imitation, and the Copper Bully is one of the most efficient and easily tied ones. Consisting of very few materials in this version, it hardly gets any easier. It can also be a scud or a cress bug in a tight spot.
Follow the tying steps here.

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Bent Rods

Better pictures: This might be considered a strange and kind of exotic photography subject to write a whole article about, but looking at the images that my fishing friends and I shoot, I can see that it's a very popular thing to shoot. As soon as a fish is hooked, we rush to the scene, and get quite a few bent rod pictures.
Get the rod bent here

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Baskets, trays, buckets

Line control: Sometimes you want to make sure that your line doesn't tangle and sometimes you want to make longer casts. A line or stripping basket, bucket or tray may be the solution. This article covers a bunch of types from rigid plastic buckets to ingenious contraptions with spikes and hooks.
More on stripping baskets here.

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Shark's Caddis Larva

Juvinile: This is a very simple fly imitating the caddis larva. Some may call it realistic fly, some will say impressionistic, but no matter what, the originator says with 100% certainty that it's a killer pattern and he has caught lots of fish with it in many different places.
Twist your Antron and peacock here

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The Simplest Fly

Corked: “What is this”
“A fly!”
“What kind of fly”
“Well, this is a fly that imitates a beetle”
The fly that he showed me then was really huge one, may be about 2 - 2,5 centimeters or almost and inch in diameter.
“Wow, why is it so big?”
“Because I am an old man, I can not see well”
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Tying Furled Flies by Ken Hanley

Chasing Silver by Jamie Howard (DVD)

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Trout Hunting by Bob Wyatt

Fly-Fishing Secrets of Alaska's Best Guides by Will Rice

Snook on a Fly by Norm Zeigler

The Fishing Club by Bob Rich

The Best Fly-Fishing trips Money Can Buy by Pat Ford

How To Catch the Biggest Trout of your Life by Landon Mayer

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide by Tom Rosenbauer

Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die by Chris Santella

Loughs of Ireland by Peter O'Rielly

Fly Fishing the Madison River by Craig Mathews (DVD)

A Passion for Pike by Ad Swier

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