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Become a better fly fisher
Fishing methods, species, ways to catch more fish - Learn fly casting - Become a better fly caster
Tom's Line Winder
DIY:
Build your own line winder for maintaining your fly lines and getting them on and off the reel. Tom Biesot considers the line cleaning process and use and construction of your own line winder.
Follow the detailed instructions here.
Dicentrarchus labrax
Ocean wolf:
The European sea bass is a worthy target for fly-fishers, and in spite of being a lot less common than its American kin the striped bass, it's quite common along the North Sea and Atlantic coasts in Europe.
Read Dutch Brian Elward's article here
Christmas gifts
Holiday
: We haven't ever done any of these traditional Christmas articles before. Lists of stocking stuffers are very common everywhere, but this is the first ever on GFF. We have spotted 24 new and classic Christmas gifts for the angler, fly-tyer or just outdoors person.
Be generous here
Interview with a trout
Exclusive
: Fish speak out for the first time ever! Learn why trout don't think a Royal Wulff is edible, why they jump when hooked and much more in this exclusive interview with the world trout spokesfish.
Read the revealing interview here
Uncharted Waters Q&A
Answers
: We contacted the team behind the video Uncharted Waters and asked them some questions. Read their replies and learn what drove them and how the trip and the DVD came to be.
Read the interview here
Itu's Bones Q&A
Answers
: Get the fascinating story of the video Itu's Bones when Carl McNiel, the man behind the video, answers our questions and tells how the whole thing started and developed.
Read the interview here
Hatch Q&A
Answers
: We posed a series of questions to Nick Reygaert, the filmmaker behind the fabulous video Hatch, which shows a row of different "hatches" around the world. Hear about (video) gear, tight schedules and future plans.
Read the interview here
Trout beads
Egg fly
: Trout beads aren't beads in the traditional fly tying sense but perfect imitations of salmon eggs and deadly efficient for rainbows. And they can be fished on a fly rod.
See how to rig the beads here
Lake Vintter
Patagonia
: Lake Vintter may be the mother of all Patagonian lakes. Huge, rough, windswept high in the mountains and full of huge brook trout and rainbows.
Read Heiko Schneider's story here.
Fish safely
Advice
: You know Murphy's Law; what can go wrong will go wrong. Accidents happen, even on a fishing trip, so be prepared. Mike Hogue helps you be ready for the unwanted eventuality.
Read his tips here.
How to fish with more than one fly
Teaming up
: Having more than one fly on your leader actually makes pretty good sense in the very simple way that presenting more than one temptation to the fish increases the chance of a bite. But there are many other reasons.
Read about it here.
The only knot
Tying
: This is definitely going to get me in trouble! But I guarantee you that if you learn this knot you will be able to get very far in almost all kinds of flyfishing. Use this for your daily knotting and use loops for the rest (backing to fly line, fly line to leader), and you will be able to make it through many, many fishing days.
See which one it is here.
Capt. Mel's Tube Knot
Tie the knot
: About 5 years ago after seeing so many really bad knots connecting the fly line to the butt leader section, Captain Mel Simpson came up with a knot that does not break, is a permanent part of the fly line and will easily go through the guides if necessary.
Learn to tie it here
The Fish & The Fly Q&A
Answers
: The excellent DVD-series The Fish and the Fly are made by Danish filmmaker Niels Vestergaard and fly tyer and flyfisher Morten Oland. We contacted them regarding the videos and got them to answer to a few questions about the project.
Read their replies here
Stepping into the Stream Q&A
We had the chance to ask Barbara Klutinis - the woman behing the video "Stepping into the Stream" a few questions regarding her film about fly fishing women.
The bag trick
It's a very simple trick, which will make your life a lot easier. Put your feet in plastic bags before you stuff them into the waders. Simple as that!
A Backyard in Nowhere Q&A
The DVD "A Backyard in Nowhere" is something else. Fly fishing, sure, but also a different experience traveling, fishing, hunting and meeting people by the Innoko River system in Alaska. The team behind the video is Danish, and it was quite natural to grab a hold of them and get them to talk a bit about the background for the whole project.
When lightning strikes
The odds of getting hit by a lightning are very small. So are the odds of getting a disease that makes it difficult or even impossible to fish. But both things happen sometimes, and GFF partner Martin Joergensen
was not
hit by a lightning...
Don't wade, you idiot!
Why do many anglers stomp into the water and spook every fish in close distance before they even lay out their first cast? GFF partner Martin Joergensen recommends staying on land.
Car rod holders
The idea behind the rod holder is simple: it's a special made device, which allows you to strap the rods on the outside of the car, and drive while the rods are mounted in this way. The rods are strapped down fully rigged and assembled with reels, lines and even flies in place.
All articles from this section...
·10 rules for C&R
·10 ways
·10 Ways to Fish Green
·A Backyard in Nowhere Q&A
·A smart spooler
·Asp Parade
·Aux Outardes River Pike
·Balance beam
·Baskets, trays, buckets
·Beginner's Buzzer
·Biological Time
·Bonefish biology
·Bonefish Theme
·Bonefishing the Flats
·Boot Blues
·Braided sleeve and silicone tubing
·Break a rod
·Bubble float
·C&R of salmon
·Capt. Mel's Tube Knot
·Car rod holders
·Carp on the Fly
·Catch & Release
·Catch&Release
·Chasing Gold
·Chinook in the salt
·Christmas gifts
·Chubby Fishing
·Chuck-n-Duck
·Cod on a flyrod
·Common casting errors
·Czech Nymphing
·Dicentrarchus labrax
·Do's and dont's
·Don't freeze
·Don't wade, you idiot!
·Driving podcast
·End of the rainbow
·Fernández Fly-Fishing for Bonefish
·First setup
·Fish safely
·Fishing - Kayak flyfishing
·Fishing a bubble
·Fishing the Muddler Minnow
·Fly fishing leaders and tippets
·Fly line anatomy
·Fly Line Blues
·Fly Reel Blues
·Flyfishing for Perch
·Flyline Maintenance 101
·Four stream rods
·Furled leaders DIY
·Going deep
·Hatch Q&A
·How to act right
·How to fish with more than one fly
·How to look good
·Ice cold tubing
·Illustrated knot table
·Improving fly line control
·In search of Dinosaurs
·Interview with a trout
·Itu's Bones Q&A
·Jacket Blues
·Joining loops
·Juro Mukai's shooting head setup
·Kayak flyfishing
·Knots and ©
·Knots for the fly fisherman
·Lake Vintter
·Large loop connection
·LeaderCalc2007
·Leaders&Tippets
·Line care
·Loops
·Making a loop directly on a fly line
·Making a wading staff
·Making loops
·Measure tape II
·Measuring the temperature
·Midwest Hatches
·Montana Trout
·My summer salmon fishing
·New York Salmon fishing
·O'io Boy'o!
·Old Hickory
·On bite tippets for pike flies - Global FlyFisher
·Our first mullets
·Packing
·Patagonian salmonids
·Pike Landing
·Production leaders
·QwikCalc
·Reel care
·Rising Tide
·Rod care
·Safety and preparation
·Saved soles
·Sea Trout Gear
·Selecting a kayak
·Sharks!
·Shooting head talk
·Shooting heads
·Shooting lines
·Skunked
·Slinkies
·Smallmouth Jump
·Spring preparation
·Stepping into the Stream Q&A
·Stillwater Fishing
·Strike Indicator Scientology
·Tapâm Q&A
·The Bad Beginning
·The bag trick
·The Fish & The Fly Q&A
·The ghost and I
·The landing net for the coast
·The measure tape
·The only knot
·The Overlooked Asset
·Tigerfish from my Verandah
·Tom's Line Winder
·Tom's reel
·Trout beads
·Twined or furled leaders
·Uncharted Waters Q&A
·Using the loop system
·Weird Ways
·When lightning strikes
·Where to fish
·Wind considerations
·Windy casting
·Winter fishing
·Yellow Fever
·Your best indicators!
·ZipCast
Reports
·The Green Inchworm
·Another Year of the Giants
·Springtime In Detroit
·Pretty in pink
·My Time on the Mountain
·Lake fishing in Sweden
·Easy Fishing Florida Keys
·Sailfish on the Fly
·Landlocked Salmon and Lobster
·Fishing the Danish coast
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Reviews
·The Fly Fisher's Playbook
·Matching Major Eastern Hatches
·Classic Salmon Fly Patterns
·Turning Tail
·Tying Tenkara Flies
·Only the River Knows
·Geofish
·The Flies that Catch Fish
·Mayflies and More
·Christmas gifts
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Patterns
·Genner Bug
·The Chicken or Pasta Fly
·Ken's Incredibly Simple Shrimp
·Mickey Finn
·The Bat Fly
·Goldmine Crab
·Streamers 365
·The Test Tube
·Tight Line Shrimp
·Malbran - The fly that catches ...
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