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I am pretty excited about

I am pretty excited about this upcoming trip. Being very novice in flyfishing, I'm looking forward to pick up some tips on dry fly and casting techniques. I do a lot of filming and video features on my website, so I will be bringing my HD video camera along to capture some action shots. :) Maybe some video clips would be useful additions to GFF and Distant Streams. 😉

Nina and I will be staying with you guys on Thursday and Friday night, so we'll be fishing with you on Friday and part of Saturday. Are the streams also open to spincasting with spinners? Nina can only spin fish. On Saturday afternoon we plan to head up to AQUA, and visit a friend around the area. :)

Thank you

Thank you for all the information, I just moved here from Pittsburgh used to flyfish the Lake Erie tributaries for steelhead. After many searches on the net this is the best report I have read. I will contact the fly shop following your advise.
Fish on
The Mad Bulgarian

"You can't just inse

"You can't just insert the URL pointing to our graphics either."

How about providing a link to your home page on the links page of my personal non-commercial site. I would think you would want the eyeballs but never know.

Greetings from Finland!

Greetings from Finland!

I would like first of all thank you for the Great site, absolutely best fly fishing site I know. I have visited here since '97 I think when it was Fishing Denmark. I remember that I printed out some fly recipes in work because I didint have internet connection home :) Since then I have been visiting here often and check out if there something interesting to read, and yes many times there is.

So long life to the Global Fly Fisher, hope that you will keep up the good work!

I'm also upkeeping fly fishing site in Finnish, you dont understand a word, but maybe you would like to check out some pictures from our gallery, there is 4791 pics at the moment from Finland and some from other coutries too.

Have a nice summer and tight lines! :)

- Masi Hast

Fishing with the "In Crowd"

Hi Martin,

Count me in. I'd love to join up with the "In Crowd".
When exactly are you planning venturing this far west?

Depending what your after, I know plenty of places. The E. Danica is on and has been for a week. H. Sulphurea is also kicking. Not sure about the E. Danica situation next week, though from experience a few late arrivals will bloom.
Just returned from a tough five days guiding. Danica is exploding but wish I could the same about the rising...?
Still, connected with plenty of browns and fat grayling but not (the larger of the species), on dry fly. Czech nymphing took them.

Looking forward to hooking up with you...Let me know.
Give me a call if you like...

Regards
Rip Van Waders Leak Big Time.

where is NIKON there

where is NIKON there is LIFE...

Thanks Martin!

Thanks Martin!

Great EXIF course, now I can speak propperly about that.

Thanks!

Carlos.

Re: greenland/iceland/charr

Kieth,

I once fished for sea run char in Greenland (Disko Island). A great experience in some extremely beautiful landscapes for some very nice fish. They were fairly easy to catch fishing in a sea pool with new fish coming in with every tide, and the sizes were good, but not enormous. A 3 lbs. fish seemed to be a good catch.

I think going to Greenland is expensive no matter where you fly from, but should you pass through Denmark, your may want to sample some sea run browns too.

Martin

2. But this is too much:

Carlos,

Whatever happened I don't know, but your image contains precisely the EXIF-information, which is shown on our page.

I gather that the picture is this one, which has the information below it in the gallery.

Below is a screen dump of the same image from Photoshop, where the picture info is exactly the same and to underscore the fact, I have also tried an online EXIF tool.

I don't know how it got in there. I didn't put it in there and neither did our system. It probably is in your original scan. How this could be accomplished I don't know, but EXIF-information can be edited into the picture or inherited from another image by being pasted onto it. You can try a similar tool on your original file. Opanda Exif is available for free download.

As I said: I have no idea what happened.

Martin

Martin,

Martin,

I must admnit I have a wide concept of "Magic", Flyfishing is magic for me, a nice cast too, the landscapes or the "fish tails" of GFF galleries are also magic, a great website as yours is it too, so you are magicians!!

But in the meanwhile, this is black magic:

I made a picture in the middle of nowhere with a red analog camera. Then I sent the film to get developed. After all my family and my friends saw the pictures, I gave them to a guy who works with me (My job is in a Prepress and Printing service) who scanned the pictures (I can swear he doesn't know what camera I had, or when I took the photo... well, I didn't know too, for me was just a red Canon that I have for many years in my fishing bag waiting for the right moment). Then, the picture was compressed (I guess), and sent by the web to GFF, and that is the magic:

1. For me is enough to see the picture placed on a website (The fish is still fresh, the mud is still wet, there are no flies surrounding...)

2. But this is too much:
Below the picture appears:

Camera manufacturer Canon
Camera model Canon PowerShot A300
Exposure time 1/640 s
Lens focal length 5 mm
Lens aperture f 3.6
Date and time of original 2004-12-05 15:07

Aren't you sorcerers? (Or, aren't your software something like a witch pot?)

Great anyway!

WOW!!
function and

WOW!!
function and simplicity... what else can you ask from a fly pattern. Amazingly easy to modify in color ... do not substitute materials i have found it to be perfect for large mouth bass in central florida and incredible in smaller sizes for blue gill and crappie!!

Re: WHAT THE ...!!!

Carlos,

There isn't much magic in that.

The trick is called EXIF, which is short for Exchangeable Image File Format.

EXIF-information can be embedded in any image file - also ones taken with analog cameras on film and later scanned. You just type it in in your editing or scanning program. Modern digital cameras encode the images automatically and some programs transfer the data all the way to the end, to the web picture.

Our software does no magic at all. It just looks for that EXIF information, and if present, interprets it and prints it under the image. We don't create or construct anything, but just read what's in there.

So much for the magic...

Martin

Thank you for this u

Thank you for this useful information.

Re: Garfish

Bob,

Garfish are small fish compared to your gar. They are usually a pound or so and a 2 lbs. specimen is a trophy. But they are feisty fighters and take a fly willingly - and come in great numbers. You may call them skinny, but they are just shaped like that. Very long and very slender. They are strong and fast, which makes them fun to catch.

They don't hit like lightning - rather the opposite. They pick up a fly slowly and several times and only rarely stick to the fly unless you fish very small flies.

And we eat them, and they taste great.

You can find a lot more info here on GFF

Martin

Garfish

Tell us Yanks about these Garfish, please. They look small and skinny. Do they fight like rats and hit like lightning the way Chain Pickerel do? Also, do you eat them? I like fish with teeth in general but they look so frail. How big do they get? We have Gar in this country. Several species and a few get into the hundreds of pounds.

THAT BIG - are you p

THAT BIG - are you pulling my leg?

Nice shot in itself,

Nice shot in itself, don't know why rated below average - did you do some post processing on this? It does look a bit "over sharpened" with some odd pixelation at edges of objects.

Good sharp close up

Good sharp close up - cunning placement of the purple out of focus flower to highlight the fly in the jaw - really makes the picture pop!

A few half hitches

Bo,

You use a few half hitches or (better) a whip finish knot.

Martin

I am the owner of th

I am the owner of the property that Jim writes about on the banks of the Tomorrow River.

I am very new

I am very new at this and have still to make my first fly... how do you seal the end thred ?? so it dosent just hang loose.. please i want to learn.

those are simple, el

those are simple, elegant patterns. Makes me want to get out the vise right now!

thank you

Amazing fly!!!

Pl

Amazing fly!!!

Please , can anyone direct me to a place that I can purchase some zonker strips in that color.

Thanks in advance,
Chris from Canada

I am SO glad

I am SO glad to have found this article! I now have a much better understanding of the many uses of the many kinds of hen hackle.

Thank you Mr. Petti.