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The rods we handled

Sea Trout Gear

Gear advice: This article will try to point you in the right direction when choosing equipment for coastal fishing for sea trout in Denmark and the Baltic.This kind of fishing usually involves a lot of casting. A lot! So the gear has to be easy to cast with - time and time again.
Get the advice here

How to look good

Like a pro: Appearance and behavior are two very important aspects of fly fishing. Act or look the wrong way, and fellow anglers will immediately judge you as an amateur. This first chapter of two will teach you what to wear and carry.
Learn all the tricks here.

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The Graphite Fly Rod

Review: A nicely produced DVD set (2 discs) covering in depth all aspects of building a graphite fly rod featuring Russ Gooding of Golden Witch Technologies. Gooding builds modern rods in the bamboo rod style. Very thorough and very instructive.
Read the review here

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Shooting head talk

Listen up: Shooting heads give a couple of advantages, which GFF partner Martin Joergensen will try to explain in this podcast episode. You can join him on the Danish coast in his usual pursuit for sea trout while he introduces you to the world of shooting heads.
Join him for about 27 minutes here

Find "Rod review, Lamiglas Blue Ridge and XMG50" on this page

Lamiglas

New Blanks for the Rodbuilder: This past season, I had the pleasure of fishing rods built from two blanks from Lamiglas, the XMG50 and the "Blue Ridge". These two blanks are Ying and Yang, fast and slow, high modulus graphite and fiberglass. As different as can be.
Click here to read the entire review

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Four stream rods

Fooling around: This is not a review as such, but then again. GFF partner Martin Joergensen got the chance to play with four great and very different rods from ECHO, Harvest, Partridge and Scierra. All are light stream rods, but they still display large differences when fished side by side.
Read about it here

Find "Taking care of your fly rod" here

Rod care

Equipment: The first part of a three part harmony about maintaining your precious fly fishing equipment - Rod, Reel And Line - by tropical fishing guide Roland Henrion. Learn how to prolong the lifespan of your fly rods.
See lots of good advice and instructional pictures in the article.

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Rising Star

Review: The Austin blanks from All Star Rods are quickly gaining a reputation among custom rod builders as being among the best performing blanks on the market, regardless of price. Bob Petti had a chance to build and fish a 4wt recently.
Click here to read the review of All Star Austin 9 4wt 2pc blank

See "Lamiglas Appalachian 76" by clicking here

Lamiglas Appalachian

Rod Review: 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.

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Choice pike fishing tool

Esox fishing: The Sirrus COMATRIX 9 wt. is in many ways the perfect pike fishing tool - able to lift and cast large and heavy flies, and with one serious butt section. Dutch Henk Verhaar test fished it in his favorite pike waters and was very pleased.
Read his review here.

Go to The Making of a Prize Rod

The Making of a Prize Rod
The grand prize for the Flymeister 2001 contest was a custom built fly rod made by Neal Hall, owner of Classic Destiny rods and president of the Custom Rod Builder's Guild.

Go to Rainshadow Xcel

Rainshadow Xcel
Not only do all the major rod companies sell their blanks, there are several companies that produce and sell only blanks. Where to begin? Rainshadow might be one choice. Great, afordable blanks.

Go to Tough rod!

Tough rod!
You do not get to fish a 12 weight one hand rod every day. GFF partner Martin Joergensen has had the pleasure of field testing a Sirrus 12 wt - an impressing rod at a very good price.

Go to Lamiglass Ti2000

Lamiglass Ti2000
A rod with a titanium section built in! Strange maybe, but the reviewer's verdict is clear: "All I know is that it's better than most other rods I have fished with." Read the review here.

Go to DIY Rod Tubes

DIY Rod Tubes
You have one extra rod with no sock and rod tube. You've been putting off buying a tube...why don't you just make your own?! With $4.00 and about a 1/2 hour's time, you'll have a DIY rod tube. These won't win beauty contests, but they work just as well as any retail version. Read here how to DIY.

Go to Sirrus Co-Matrix

Sirrus Co-Matrix
"While the mention of modulus does continue to pop up from time to time in advertising, most anglers, and indeed most rod and blank manufacturers, have gotten over their numbers fetish.". Read Bob Petti's review of the excellent and interesting Sirrus Co-Matrix 9' 2pc 6wt.

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Rod Building
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·Writing on rods
·Build a rod, 5, Testing
·Build a rod, 4, Coating
·Build a rod, 3, Guides and wrap...
·Build a rod, 2, Handle
·Build a rod, 1, Selecting the p...
·Build a rod
·Rod review, Lamiglas Blue Ridge...
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·The Fish & The Fly 1-3
·A Fly Fishing Guide to Rocky Mo...
·Atlantic Salmon Magic
·Essential Saltwater Flies
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·Stepping into the Stream
·Heads or Tails
·A Backyard in Nowhere Q&A
·A Backyard in Nowhere
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Gear
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·AquaFly flybox
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