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The nymph project? Remember? Tying a box full of my favorite two nymph patterns?

Well, my plan was to do things in stages. For the sparkle squirrels - spin a boat load of dubbing brushes, bead a ...

Nymph Project

I just ordered some hooks so that I might be able to finish off my nymph project before the end of the year. I have already tied up a batch of sparkle squirrel nymphs and a couple dozen simple hare's ...

Before the talkies

Bob P noted my noble reasons for doing the original site that precursed GFF in black and white... my scanner was an old HP DeskScan that only scanned in greytones.

Those were the Fishing Denmark ti...

Re: 100 days! 10 years!

Ah yeah - the black and white scans. I liked 'em!

I remember wondering why Martin did all his pictures in black and white. I thought he was so smart he just wanted to reduce the overall bandwidth e...

100 days! 10 years!

Time really does fly!

Yesterday the GFF Blog passed it's 100th day. Amazing! I remeber installing this new feature just a short while ago, and now we're already closing in on our first quarter.

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Morning coffee, winter waders and Christmas tree lights

I awoke yesterday to 4" of snow and crisp conditions...one of my friends reported minus-11F although my thermometer seemed to be stuck at a flat, balmy 0F. I poured a cup of joe, turned on the Christ...

Prince Nymphs

Mike Hogue drops by and offers us some variations of one of the all time popular trout flies - the Prince Nymph. By adding "a little flash and glamour", we have a few new things to try the next time we're getting skunked and want to try something different.

Re: Winter waders

Neoprene still has a place in the cold weather angler's closet. Just not the stockingfoot variety.

Bootfoot neoprenes are still the wader of choice for steelhead anglers who don't spend a lot of t...

Re: Winter waders

Bootfoot neoprenes seem to be the wader of choice for hard core steelhead fishermen in the Great Lakes tributary systems, especially for those anglers who don't move about much during the course of a ...

Winter waders

I bought my first breathable waders - a pair of Vision Extremes - some years ago and haven't used anything else since.

Back when I bought them they were commonly known as lightweight summer waders ...

Lamiglas Appalachian

On your knees, casting to a small spot fifteen or twenty feet away. Float the line behind you and then "flick" the line foward. Man, I love this rod for that kind of fishing. It's like it knows what I want to do and casts a perfect narrow loop with impressive speed.

Read the rest of Bob's review.

So this is Xmas..?!

It happens every year, and still it surprises me. Yesterday I was fishing, and looking at the weather report today tells me that it might very well be one of the last days this year. Fair days will be...

Arctic Runner

Got an article coming up on flies tied w/ Arctic Runner hair by Deryn Lacombe. Really nice stuff. Here's a teaser.

Earning my luck

Well, not to rub it in guys, but I did fish this weekend (and last by the way). And I expect to go Wednesday and probably Saturday too...

Life is short and I don't want to wait for my turn to live....

Thinking and not doing

Here's my dilemma...I am working for 2 clients right now, trying to eek out a self-employed living. But all it seems it is doing is waste valuable flyfishing time.

I fished 56 days last year; 8 th...