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Fishing Skills
Become a better fly angler

Where to fish

Skills: You may be under the impression that finding a good place to fish is difficult and that the best spots are secret and far away from everything. Wrong! Read this article and learn how to find the best and richest fishing locations. They nearby, easy to access and so full of fish you can almost walk on the water

Chuck-n-Duck

Fish Better: Chuck-n-duck fishing isn't for everyone. Morality aside, it is an effective angling technique, one worth learning if you find occasionally find yourself in a situation where drifting a nymph along the bottom of a distant lie is the difference between catching and casting practice.
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The measure tape

Innocent lies: 10-20-30-40 meters? 30-60-90-120 feet? How long can you cast with a one hand rod? And how long does and average fly-angler actually cast? GFF partner Martin Joergensen has done some research and talked to some experts.
If you think you can cast 100 feet, read on...

Find "Hickory shad on a fly rod" here

Old Hickory

Shad on a fly: If Rodney Dangerfield were a fish, he'd probably be a hickory shad. They just don't get much respect. This article by Mark Dysinger aims to set that straight and give the shad the attention it really deserves from fly anglers.
Read here why the shad is called the poor mans tarpon

Click to go to "Imitative Fly Tying"

Imitative Fly Tying

New book from Ian Moutter: Ian Moutter is back with a followup to "Tying Flies the Paraloop Way". Consider this an applied fly tying book, as you not only learn how to tie the flies, but also how they were designed, why they were designed, and how they may be fished.
Click here to read Bob's review.

Go to the article "Taking Trout by Dave Hughes"

Taking Trout

Advice on Trout Fishing: This isn't an all-encompassing book on trout fishing. It won't take a beginner from choosing equipment to the first trout. Instead, it is a diverse collection of essays on varying topics that are meant to stand alone as individual lessons in the art of "Taking Trout".
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Montana Trout

First time: Craig Fellin, owner of Big Hole Outfitters in Montana, tells how a first time flyfisher can spend a week working with an experienced guide learning most aspects of the sport at his or her own pace. "By the end of the week, you should have a mastery of the sport" he writes.
Go to Montana

Go to the article "Big Trout - How and Where to Target Trophies"

Big Fish!

Larger: "A good book, filled with practical information gathered from years of research and discussions with fellow anglers. If you want to know more about trout, this is a terrific resource." says GFF partner Bob Petti about this book devoted to catching big trout.

Go to the article "10+ easy ways to improve your fly fishing"

10 ways

Get better: Become a better fly fisher by attending to these 10 easy ways of improvement. They are simple and logical, but many people do not even consider them in their day-to-day fishing.

More about "The Overlooked Asset"

The Overlooked Asset

Get better: When fly fishing, your prime assets are not the hardware you are using or the new, neat casting style you learned - it is something far less physical.

Common casting errors
In the following little animations I will show you the most common casting errors. I observe these errors very often, but with a little practice it is very simple to correct the causes for these errors. If you know the reason for such an error it is easy to kill the cause through excercises, believe me.

Go to Improving fly line control

Improving fly line control
Three ways of improving your fly line control. Line control is much more than mending

Go to The Essence of Flycasting

The Essence of Flycasting
This book is very stylish, kind of mellow in the visual tone and held in beautiful B/W. People who have met Krieger (or seen his videos) will know that he is not excactly B/W. On the opposite: he's a colorfull, enthusiastic, noisy, acting-all-kinds-of-roles type of instructor.

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