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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

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

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

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Right hand or left hand?

Dexterity: 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...
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Fly Fishing with Solo Canoes

Sailing: 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.
Read about Mike's experiences here

Find "Bronze Ides" here

Bronze Ides

A summer fish: 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.
Get the feeling of summer bronze

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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.

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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

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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

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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

Skip to "Uncharted Waters Q&A"

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

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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

Find "Hatch Q&A" 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

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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

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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.

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Fish safely
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.

Go to How to fish with more than one fly

How to fish with more than one fly
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.

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The only knot
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.

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Capt. Mel's Tube 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.

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The Fish & The Fly Q&A
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.

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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.

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
·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
·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
·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
·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

·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
·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
·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
·When lightning strikes
·Where to fish
·Wind considerations
·Windy casting
·Winter fishing
·Yellow Fever
·Your best indicators!
·ZipCast

Reports
·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
·Easy Fishing Florida Keys
·Sailfish on the Fly
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Reviews
·The Founding Flies
·Ultimate Fishing Adventures
·Wet Flies
·Classic Michigan Flies
·Trout (of the World)
·North Country Flies
·Streamers 365
·The Fly Fisher's Playbook
·Matching Major Eastern Hatches
·Classic Salmon Fly Patterns
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Patterns
·Neguinha Fulô
·Micro Tarantula Crab
·Pike Duster
·Mart's CdL Hen Caddis Emerger
·Glitter John
·F&K Caddis
·Catskill Tube Flies
·The Super Pupa
·This fly is NOT called Europe!
·Don Gapen's Muddler Minnow
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