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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

Merging two fly lines

Neat usage of shrink tubes: Splicing lines together using thread and glue can be replaced by another method if you are using coated lines. See how easy it is to weld lines togeteher using shrink tubes and a heater.
Merge here

Sid’s Fin Hack

DIY: Modifying float tube fins with better straps normally used on snowboard bindings. This article shows how you can easily modify the fins yourself.
Follow the easy instructions here

Skip to "Meet the Booby Fly"

Meet the Booby Fly

Floating: A top producing outlaw with a catchy name. An excerpt from Michael Jensen's newly published book "Tying and fishing The Booby Fly"
Read an intro to Boobies here

Find "Welding your loops" here

Welding your loops

Weld loops like the pros: A simple 7-step guide will show you how to make small, neat loops on your fly lines. Just like the pros - just neater.
Now you can finally say goodbye to big clumsy loops, acetone, glue and sewing processes. Doing it this way will give you, small, smooth and round loops.
Get your welding certificate here

Go to "What is a switch rod?"

What is a switch rod?

A jack of all trades: There's single hand and two hand rods. The one in between should be the switch rod, right? This article is about how salmon guide Nils Jorgensen sees it.
Single or two hand?

This link takes you to "FlyOn tube fly system"

FlyOn tube fly system

New paradigm: A simple idea for switching tube flies lightning fast without cutting the leader or tying any knots.
See how to do it here

Go to "Portrait of a fishing dog"

Portrait of a fishing dog

Woof: I've had a dog for close to ten years now, and he has been with me on almost every single fishing trip I've been on since I got him.
Read our story here

See "Henning's Setup" by clicking here

Henning's Setup

DIY: This shooting head setup for coastal fishing is both inexpensive, easy to make yourself and very easy to cast.
Learn how to rig it here

Jump to "February Red"

February Red

Cold hatch: Many Finnish fly fishermen wait impatiently throughout a long and dark winter for some exotic dry fly fishing in the middle of ice and snow
See the beautiful winter pictures here

Go to "Stripers on the flats"

Stripers
on the flats

Maine: Chasing striped bass in the shallow water - the flats - can be a lot of fun as Swiss fly-angler Lukas Bammatter can attest to.
Read his story here

See "What is fly-fishing?" by clicking here

What is fly-fishing?

Start here: This article tries to explain in simple terms what it is to fish with a fly - fly-fish or flyfish.
Read the explanation here

More about "2500 sea trout!"

2500 sea trout!

True lies: If you want to lie about your catches, you might as well do it properly. Here's a story about how not to do, and a tool to help you.
Learn to lie well here

Jump to "Never fish with a broken hook!"

Never fish with a broken hook!

Breaking bad: Am I dumb or what? Who would fish with a broken hook? Well, a lot of people do, actually. I do now and then, although rarely on purpose.
Learn how to avoid broken or dull hooks

Click to go to "The strike"

The strike

Setting the hook: Once a fish has taken your fly there's a number of different ways to react. This article will try to help you hook more fish by adapting your strike or hook set.
Read about different methods here

Go to Right hand or left hand?

Right hand or left hand?
The debate about whether to use the right hand or the left hand on the fly reel is almost as old as fly-fishing itself. Let's look a bit rationally on the issue at hand...

Go to Fly Fishing with Solo Canoes

Fly Fishing with Solo Canoes
Mike Hogue bought a new solo canoe this summer. After fishing and using his solo canoe for awhile, he is now wondering why he waited so long to buy this boat.

Go to Bronze Ides

Bronze Ides
When the water reaches a comfortable temperature to go swimming, fishing gets slower. However, some species like the tropical feel and may surprice you now and then. Tie some small gammarus and dry beetles and get out in the calm August evenings.

Go to Tom's Line Winder

Tom's Line Winder
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.

Go to Dicentrarchus labrax

Dicentrarchus labrax
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.

Go to Christmas gifts

Christmas gifts
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.

All articles from this section...

·10 rules for C&R
·10 ways
·10 Ways to Fish Green
·2500 sea trout!
·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
·Bronze Ides
·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
·February Red
·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 Fishing with Solo Canoes
·Fly line anatomy
·Fly Line Blues

·Fly Reel Blues
·Flyfishing for Perch
·Flyline Maintenance 101
·FlyOn tube fly system
·Four stream rods
·Furled leaders DIY
·Going deep
·Hatch Q&A
·Henning's Setup
·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
·Meet the Booby Fly
·Merging two fly lines
·Midwest Hatches
·Montana Trout
·My summer salmon fishing
·Never fish with a broken hook!
·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
·Portrait of a fishing dog
·Production leaders

·QwikCalc
·Reel care
·Right hand or left hand?
·Rising Tide
·Rod care
·Safety and preparation
·Saved soles
·Sea Trout Gear
·Selecting a kayak
·Sharks!
·Shooting head talk
·Shooting heads
·Shooting lines
·Sid’s Fin Hack
·Skunked
·Slinkies
·Smallmouth Jump
·Spring preparation
·Stepping into the Stream Q&A
·Stillwater Fishing
·Strike Indicator Scientology
·Stripers on the flats
·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
·The strike
·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
·Welding your loops
·What is a switch rod?
·What is fly-fishing?
·When lightning strikes
·Where to fish
·Wind considerations
·Windy casting
·Winter fishing
·Yellow Fever
·Your best indicators!
·ZipCast

Reports
·Lough Conn trout fishing
·A spring trip
·Letter From Scotland
·Bronze Ides
·The Green Inchworm
·Another Year of the Giants
·Springtime In Detroit
·Pretty in pink
·My Time on the Mountain
·Lake fishing in Sweden
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Reviews
·Sea Trout Secrets 5+6
·Salt
·Tying and Fishing the Booby Fly
·A World of Pike Flies
·Casting That Fly 1/2 - Basics/A...
·Why I Fly Fish
·Tributaries
·The Tube Fly
·Feather Brain
·The Founding Flies
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Patterns
·Mart's Peccary Paraloop Emerger
·OSA Nymph
·Sea Trout Munker
·The Munker
·Sydney Opera Mouse
·Foam Caterpillars
·Mouse flies
·Wet Flies
·The Oscar Fly
·X-Factor
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