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Locked and Loaded

One of my pre season chores is sorting out my flox boxes. You know - discarding flies that have outlived their usefulness, adding to stock from all the winter tying, and generally tidying up. I take all my boxes and my stock flies, grab an empty box, and fill it. Still, no matter how many flies I have, there will be one day on the river where I won't have anything in my box that feels right. That's just the way it is.

Opening Day!

The Opening Day of Trout Season is tomorrow here in New York. I will be meeting some friends to fish somewhere along the West Branch of the Delaware River, a place I have not fished since I moved here from Endicott. Maybe once a couple years ago. There are too many trout streams between where I live now and the West Branch for me to take the drive, even though it's a relatively short drive.

Bornholm!

As the regular GFF visitor may have noticed, I embark on a week-long trip to the Danish island of Bornholm every spring together with a bunch of friends. GFF partner Steve has been on a couple of thes...

The Nedbank guide to flyfishing South Africa

I have had the good fortune of fishing with several South African fly anglers over the years, and apart from being great anglers and very nice people (like most anglers I meet), they all left me with

Fish Flies I and II

This is an amazing couple of books! Volume one has been sitting on my bookshelf for many years and I have had it out many times to check facts about various patterns.

Fly Fishing the Great Western Rivers

Some books just have it all: great images, well written text, large format, beautiful typography and all the nice graphic details. But very few have gold print. This one has! And it deserves it.

Fly Waters Near & Far

I have been lucky enough to fish quite a lot of places in this world, and generally consider myself a well-travelled fly fisher.

Woolly Wisdom

A book which is any fly tier's wet dream - or nightmare - depending on your angle of observation and approach to flies and fly tying.

Yellow Fever

Imagine a fish that takes a fly as readily as a trout, whether it is nymph, a wet fly, or a dry fly. Czech nymph style, wet fly swing, North Country style or upstream dry fly. Now magine that, pound for pound, at least twice as strong as a trout

Korrie Broos gives you: the yellowfish!

New forum

We did it! We exchanged our trusty old and lagging forum with a new and better one. Now, the forum isn't the busiest place on GFF, but this new software might do the trick and lure a few more people to share the fishing secrets with the rest of us.

Read a short intro here and see the new forum.

Like in zero?

Bob,

Find comfort in the fact that my last trip was a zero-fish trip too.
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Make that None

The weather forecast was far better than the fishing forecast, but a day on the river is better than a day cooped up inside anyday.

This is Cairns Pool on the Beaverkill. Hard to believe that in...