Lake fishing

Fishing in stillwater like freshwater lakes and ponds

Lake fishing - articles

Article The Monster Brown Trout of Thingvallavatn Jan 31. 2020 Big trout The Icelandic lake Thingvallavatn has become synonymous with monster ice age brown trout. People from all over the world come to chase their dream fish. Many have their dream come true from the first cast, others go home empty handed. Get the lowdown here	Article Adirondack Summer Aug 3. 2019 Adventure Mountains, rivers, lakes, brooks and ponds. Loads of wildlife. A total of 6 million acres designated as "Forever Wild" ready to explore and fish. Mike Hogue gives lots of advice here.	Article Lough Conn trout fishing Jun 14. 2014 Large lake Irish Lough Conn is a huge lake full of wild trout and a very decent number of salmon. Fishing in it is free, and can be fantastic. And the Kelly Kettle was born on its banks. Find here a story from this beautiful lake and some facts on fishing it.
Article Northern New York Getaway Jun 6. 2014 Photos The highlight of every fishing season is the trip to a small lake in northern New York where my buddies and I leave our trout gear at home and chase the king of the warmwater lakes - the largemouth bass. Click here to read more.	Article Letter From Scotland Jun 16. 2013 A personal view from the lochs Gordon McCallum, a wonderful, happy guy sent us this letter just to give you readers of GFF a slight taste of Scottish fishing. Lean back and dream about lochs, hoppers and droppers and water, which may be used for whiskey... Read more from the cottage here	Article Double Legs Jun 2. 2013 Leggy While browsing fly patterns on the web I found this interesting and buggy looking Swedish Caddis pattern, and discovered that its history actually traced back to a GFF seatrout pattern. See how to tie it here
Article The Ronker Jul 20. 2012 Zonker Rubber legs and a zonker... in orange. The Ronker is a fly for deep dwelling trout, featuring some weight bright colors, mobile materials and not least rubber legs. See the pattern here	Article Lake Vintter Mar 8. 2012 Patagonia Lake Vintter may be the mother of all Patagonian lakes. Huge, rough, windswept high in the mountains and full of huge brook trout and rainbows. Read Heiko Schneider's story here.	Article How to fish with more than one fly Jan 11. 2012 Teaming up Having more than one fly on your leader actually makes pretty good sense in the very simple way that presenting more than one temptation to the fish increases the chance of a bite. But there are many other reasons. Read about it here.
Article Don't wade, you idiot! Sep 19. 2011 Stay dry Why do many anglers stomp into the water and spook every fish in close distance before they even lay out their first cast? GFF partner Martin Joergensen recommends staying on land. Read why in this article.	Article My Time on the Mountain Aug 31. 2011 Rocky Mountain High Gaining 2,500 feet in altitude and hiking over 28 miles wasn't the tough part of this trip of a lifetime for first time GFF author Shane Murphy. It was resisting the temptation to fish every inch of the abundance of trout-filled water in the 4 days he spent in the Colorado backcountry. If you decide to fish the Colorado high country, Shane offers his description of the trip and shares tactics & flies you shouldn't forget Backcountry	Article The only knot Aug 14. 2011 Tying This is definitely going to get me in trouble! But I guarantee you that if you learn this knot you will be able to get very far in almost all kinds of flyfishing. Use this for your daily knotting and use loops for the rest (backing to fly line, fly line to leader), and you will be able to make it through many, many fishing days. See which one it is here.