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2006 - Editorial - Articles, blog posts
2006 - Editorial - Articles, blog posts
Goosewing Coachman?
There are few flies more attractive than a Royal Coachman. The thing is, I don't think the quill slip wings are worth the bother, because all the fuss that goes into making them look perfect at the vi...
Cheated!
I have always been a great admirer of R. Valentine Atkinson, who is one of the world's best fishing photographers, and who have taken soooo many breathtaking images through the years.
He has obviou...
More Jorgensen
If you enjoyed the first little video with Poul Jorgensen, this second one will also be worth watching. Poul ties a dry fly together with Danish fly tyer Morten Valeur and is in a very cheery mood ind...
The Rise
In my ways, fly fishers and fly fishing are a lot like cooks and cooking. There are trained and certified professionals, part time hobbyists, celebrities, long honored traditions, well known recipes, ...
Tigerfish from my Verandah
When you speak to old timers about fishing for tigerfish on the Zambezi River they will tell you of driving along dirt roads, cutting a path through the forest to get access to the river. Lions still running wild, and while they fished elephants chased anglers away from the bank. This is not how it is today.
Read Korrie Broos' article here.
Asp Parade
Some refer to the asp (Aspius aspius) as the "poor man's tarpon" but according to Hungarian Vilmos Varga it's a quarry onto itself, worth pursuing with a fly rod and a bunch of large streamers, giving you a lot of fun and something new to catch.
Learn how to catch an asp in his article here
The Trout Whisperers
This is the first fly fishing novel I have ever read. In fact, it might be the first one I've ever heard of, so I don't have anything to compare it to.
Nymph-Fishing Rivers and Streams
Rick Hafele should be a well known name to most fly fishers. He's been the entomology columnist for American Angler magazine for years, co-authored the successful "The Complete Book of Western Hatches...
Bob Jacklin's Yellowstone Ties
Bob Jacklin is one of a handful of true legends in Fly Tying, and certainly needs no introduction here.
A Passion for Steelhead
Dec Hogan is well known in the fly fishing world as a master of the two-handed fly rod, but until I picked up "A Passion for Steelhead" I did not know much about Dec Hogan the angler.
Server blues... again
During the 10 year existence of GFF we have outgrown several hard drives, several servers and several hosting services. GFF is a big child now, eating up about 4-5 gigabytes of hardisk space and servi...
Poul Jorgensen video
While browsing the fine Danish web site Scandic Angler, I stumbled upon this excellent video with legendary salmon fly tyer Poul Jorgensen. The video is in English, and to the ones of us who met Poul,...
Thin Blue Lines
Lithuania's 758 rivers, streams, and brooks cut like thin blue lines across the map offering a wealth of fishing opportunities. British Ripley Davenport married a Lithuanian girl and this opened his eyes to the Blatic state's potential.
Read Ripley's tips on fishing Lithuania here.
Honey Shrimp
There are thousands of shrimp patterns in the world, made from the same template. This pattern is a time consumer, but it makes it more interesting tying shrimp flies. The eyes, proportions and legs gives this pattern some kind of magic.
See how to make the leggy one here
Mel Krieger's Patagonia
The first words spoken on this DVD are: "Every so often in life comes a person that is one step above the rest...", and it continues talking about Mel Krieger - who is the person in question as "Not j
Chuck-n-Duck
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.
Click here to read more
Streams of Consciousness
I will admit right now that I had never heard of Jeff Hull prior to reading his new book "Streams of Consciousness".
Salmon River Skunking
My fishing buddy Gary and I spent last Saturday on the Salmon River fighting the high water levels and crowds. I would like to say we also spent the day fighting fish, but that would be a lie. Gary ha...
The Bahamian Rhapsody II
Second part of the Bahamian bonefish joyride as described by The Gang of Four. Join Paul, Tomaz, Ian and Simon on more bonefish fun, a sailboat regatta and lots of good, clean Bahamian fun.
Read second part of the story here.
The Bahamian Rhapsody I
Go on a bonefishing adventure and catch bones, tarpon, shark and a wealth of other species in the waters of the Bahamas. Tomaz Modic and Paul Slaney tells the story of fish caught and released, lines and rods broken and lots of fun had.
Join them in this epic article.
Martin Westbeek
Tying has become as much a passion for Dutch Martin Westbeek as fishing, and Martin is a regular tyer at shows and fairs in Holland, Germany, Denmark and Britain, and also tied in the USA.
Read his bio here
Mart's Bibio
A nice thing about this Bibio is that it's versatile. Play with it, use lighter of heavier hooks, fish it with or without floatant, wrap a thinner or denser hackle, and so on. But make sure you have some Bibios in your flybox spring suddenly is here.
See Martin Westbeek's pattern here
Hen Hackle
Awhile back, I received a shipment of hen necks and saddles from Whiting Farms. The saddles struck me with their intense colors and solid web, then necks with their stem length and shortish barbs. These feathers were perfect for the wet flies I was working on.
Click here to read more
GFF Caps
Many years ago in the late childhood or early adolescence of GFF, partner Steve Schweitzer had a batch of caps with an embroidered logo made up. The idea was to sell these caps on the site, and we eve...
Fall Colors
Autumn is my favorite time of year. All summer long I look forward to that first crisp morning where it feels good to put on a fleece shirt even though there is not a cloud in the sky. This past weekend, the weather was about as perfect as one could expect.
Click here to see the photos
Summit pictures
I have just added a GFF Summit category to the GFF Pix section, which means that images from this event can now be uploaded and tagged to create a small gallery of the participant's images.
I am in...
I wish
Not that I don't get to fish. I certanly do! More than most people actually. Dutch Jay Lee's blog recently introduced me to the concept of FTFE - Full Time Fishing Equivalent referring to the amount o...
S&L's Lost Flies
Dick Stewart and Bob Leeman's book "Trolling Flies for Trout and Salmon" has inspired fly tyers for the 24 years since it's publication in 1982. Here, finally, we get to see some of the patterns listed in the back of the book that did not have supporting photographs.
Click here to see the article
Eyes of Epoxy
Tired of buying eyes, that make your shrimps look great? They are expensive and yet it is hard to find the color you want or the right size. It is not complicated and a good pursuit during winter time. Make your own in all sizes and colors you want.
Learn here how to do it
Tis the season ...
If all goes well, I will be getting some of these clown eggs wet next weekend, hoping to connect to some really large fish running up from Lake Ontario.
Master your Fly Casting!
First Day of Autumn
After a summer that alternated between bibical floods and stifling heat and humidity, the season is finally turning over. I got out last weekend for a bit of trout fishing. Although I got blanked (aga...
GFF Summit
The first meeting among GFF fans and contributors took place on the Danish island of Fyn in pursuit of sea trout. People of many nationalities met and fished for a nice September weekend, and had a fabulous fishing with a large number of fish caught.
Join them here
Our first mullets
Since the 1960's the mullets have visited the Danish and South Swedish waters from late May to late October. They feed on green weed, are easily spooked and do not pay interest in flies - most of the time. Impossible - but in 2005 Kasper Mühlbach hooked one fish.
Read about this fish here
First autumn day
After a summer of pretty extreme heat for these parts of the world, we have just endured an August with twice as much rain as we usually get. Now we're a couple of days into September, and the weather...
Messy Pike Fly
Not one of Martin Joergensen's usual pike flies. For that it is way too complex and has too many tying steps and too many different materials. He doesn't like complex pike flies. "I spend dozens of minutes tying one, and a pike spends seconds shredding it!" he says.
He ties it just the same in this article.
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