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Tails

This is an image gallery a bit different than we usually do them. We have so many great pictures in our stock that we need some way to get them out to you. This is a gallery of tails. Yes, tails! Nothing but these beautiful rudders on the fish we catch.

See the images here. Not much text. Promise!

Theft!

Update [August 29th 2005]. Just to set things straight: I did get an email from the Tri-State webmaster telling me that the page had been submitted by a reader and that he had no idea it was ours. He ...

100 Weird Ways to Catch Fish

About a year go GFF visitor and author John Waldman (of "Stripers, An Angler's Anthology" fame) posted a message on our discussion board with the subject "World's Strangest & Most Clever Fishing T

Fly-Fishing for Bonefish

When I started researching for my first bonefishing trip, one of the first names I bumped into was Chico Fernandez. His flies, his stories, his photos, his articles.

Fly Fishing Mexico - the Yucatan Peninsula

This is a fantastically beautiful book!

I fell in love with it even before I owned it. I happened to pass by a Danish web site, which had a review of the book, and immediately started a hunt for th...

Re: Bream

Bob, these guys (or girls) may be big, but they're limp and not very willing to fight anything.

The one in the picture was about 60 centimetres or somewhere in the 25 inches range and weighed some...

Re: Bream

That's a big fish.

There's no shame in fishing for "non sport fish" fish. Heck - I once went steelheading with a buddy of mine on a rainfed Lake Ontario tributary and happened upon a monster run o...

Bream

Suckerfish, huh, Bob? How about this one:

Was away yesterday on a small scouting trip, My aim was to find some ide, but I wound up with bream in stead, Hundreds of them! Now don't tell anybody, but...

Fishing Small Flies

With "Fishing Small Flies", Ed Engle has given us the 2nd half of his treatise on small fly fishing, joining his prior work "Tying Small Flies" to give readers a true master's course on the topic of a

Cat days?

Since it's called dog days when it's warm, is it then called cat days when it's cold? In that case we have cat days here... at least it's raining both cats and dogs, so there might be some analogy.
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Break a rod

There is nothing easier than breaking a flyrod. Former fishing guide Roland Henrion describes 10 easy ways to do it for those who want to try. The advice can of course be translated into 10 ways of avoiding rod breakage if you don't.

Read Roland's entertaining article in the FishBetter section.

Dog Days

I've been reduced to this. Sight fishing for suckers in the clear pools of the Beaverkill, with nary a trout in view. I 'spose it could be worse. I'm ready for some cool weather.

Too many fish...

I just returned from a short trip through Denmark with my family. A very nice trip with visits to family and friends and a suitable amount of outdoors life, campfires, ice cream cones and museums. But...