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Bass bugs

Bugged: I'm not sure how floating bass flies got the name "bug", but it certainly has stuck. Whether constructed of wood, plastic, foam, or hair, they all seem to be lumped into the generic category of "bass bug". Although a few are tied to imitate specific food forms, usually mice or frogs, most are very surreal, offering the impression of something living and outrageous. By Bob Petti

Read more on "A great Danish fly for sea trout - The classic Magnus"

Magnus Classic

Danish: A great Danish fly for sea trout - The classic Magnus
Pattern here

Directly to "Stacking material"

Stacking material

Even: When stacking materials it is important to consider it as consisting of more than just one process. There are several steps involved: material selection, cleaning and preparing, selecting the right tool and performing the stacking process itself. By Wayne Luallen

Skip to "Monster Muddler"

Monster Muddler

A large muddler for pike

Skip to "The killer fly"

The killer fly

Flashy: How about a fly which has caught tuna in the tropics, salmon and trout in Russia, cod in Denmark and a number og other fish in Global destinations? Claus Bech-Petersen's simple Tinsel Fly is such a fly. Read Claus' article with history, patterns and fishing methods.
Find the article here

Go to the article "Mart´s Bibio"

Mart´s Bibio

Foam wing: 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

"Dave Lewis, USA" is found here

Dave Lewis, USA

"Fall Streamer Swap" is found here

Fall Streamers

Streamers: Looking for some juicy streamers to swing in your favorite trout stream or pond in the coming Fall? Check out these attractive flies from a streamer swap hosted by Scott Daskiewich.
Click here to see the flies in the Streamer section

Go to the article "Wasp Year"

Wasp Year

The sting: It has been a hot and dry summer in Scandinavia. Wasps have been a plague in many areas. They have been in every apple, every drink and every house. Some of them may have crossed a stream or river, winding up on the surface before continueing the rush. Some of them never left again.
Read and get stung here.

"The Zuddler" is found here

The Zuddler

Steelhead fly: Question: What to you get when you combine elements of a Muddler Minnow and a Zonker? Answer: A Zuddler - an excellent steelhead fly. Joe Emery and John Rode have combined a zonker strip, a muddler head and a cone head into a killer pattern.
Read their story in the Patterns section

Jump to "Nutria muddler"

Nutria muddler

A large surface muddler for all fish that eat in the darkness.

Go to "Geir Kjensmo"

Geir Kjensmo

Norwegian: Living in Elverum in Norway on the banks of the famous grayling river Glomma.
A bit about Geir here

Go to "Soeren Glerup, Denmark"

Soeren Glerup, Denmark

Read more on "Art flies | fly art"

Art flies | fly art

Manipulation: There are a couple of new pictures in this section. I have once again experimented with the unknown and hidden beauty in the flies and materials that we use - aspects that can be brought out through computer manipulation.

"Making loops" is found here

Making loops

Loops: These loops are often refered to as Orvis loops. I don't know if Orvis invented them, but they do sell them -- and at high prices too.

Click to see "Selecting deer hair"

Selecting deer hair

Tips: Choosing the right hair will make your deer hair flies - Comparaduns, EHC's, Muddlers, bass bugs - much easier to tie. By Chris Helm

More about "Tube Basics"

Tube Basics

Tube theme: This is the first article in the GFF Tube Fly Theme: An introduction to the concept of tube flies and some arguments for using tubes rather than hooks. The article will give you a basic knowledge about tube flies and prepare you for the rest of the theme.
Start your tube ride here.

Jump to "The Fluff"

The Fluff

Fluffy: Fish must be stupid to mistake this simple and efficient pattern for something edible, and luckily they are and they do. Danish Per Gade leads you through the paces of tying and fishing The Fluff.
Follow him in this article.

Go to "Tool turning"

Tool turning

Woodworking: Dutch Henk Verhaar finds that producing his own tools is just as satisfying as tying flies or building rods. Follow his small course in woodturning here and learn to turn hair stackers, bodkins and other beautiful tools in exotic woods
It's quite easy and requires only few tools

More about "Fins - a photo gallery"

Fins

Portfolio: Gotta stay on the fins to survive, as the fish said. We feature another gallery of not-so-traditional fish photos, this time of fins. See round ones, sharp ones, big ones and small ones in this gallery put together with pictures from several GFF photographers.
See the images here. Not much text. Promise!

Find "LR Dyer" on this page

LR Dyer

This link takes you to "Philatelic phlies"

Philatelic phlies

Letters: Do Postal Services have notions of flyfishing? Do flyfishers have something in common with stamp collectors? By Bas Verschoor

Find "Banderillas" here

Banderillas

Long fly: The tube fly - or tube fly system - you can see on this page - is called the Banderillas. The name comes from the Spanish name for the sticks the the bullfigther uses during the fight. The body sections of this fly has some resemblance to these sticks.

More about "Niels Have, Denmark"

Niels Have, Denmark

See "Fly gallery" by clicking here

Fly gallery

Skip to "Salt water spiders"

Salt water spiders

The least dressed fly of all The classic spider fly has to be one of the least dressed flies of all times. A slender body and a thin hackle - and that's it.

Go to "The categories"

The categories

Read more on "Wadington shanks"

Wadington shanks

Shanked up: Classics in a classic way. These flies may look like something of today, but the concept of Wadington shanks is old as Methusalem. Danish fly tyer Niels Have has converted four classics to effective flies for early salmon and sea trout fishing. See the pictures and patterns.

Directly to "The Messy Pike Fly"

Messy Pike Fly

Big fish 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.

Find "Kluting" on this page

Kluting

Heavy: Kluting, a bottom seeking fly for pike, cod, pike perch and many other fish.
See the pattern and the pictures here

See "DIY Epoxy Rotor" by clicking here

DIY Epoxy Rotor

Slowhand: If you tie a lot of epoxy flies and have been glancing in the direction of the nice but expensive epoxy rotors in the local flyshop, you may want to consider building your own out of some scraps and a disco mirror ball motor.
Read the complete instructions and see the step-by-step photos here.

See "Digitizing flies, scanning" by clicking here

Digitizing flies, scanning

More about "Fishing Yellowstone the cowboy way"

The Cowboy Way

Cowboys from Luxembourg: "Them Department of Evironment bears don't eat no cows!" was the curt answer of Dave, our outfitter, to my question on the wisdom of cattle grazing 7500 feet up in Wyoming's Beartooth Mountains. Read Eric Arbogast and Jean-Marc Klees' fascinating story about Trouting the Cowboy Way.

See "IQ Dawn series" by clicking here

IQ Dawn series

Salmon flies:: The purpose of the IQ Dawn Series is to cover most variations you can encounter at a salmon river. And hopefully catch a Salmon Salar, king of fish! All flies can easily be made to spey flies - just change the hackle to heron feather instead, in the same color.
See the patterns here

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The Danish Fly Festival 1997

Festival: This web page contains pictures and information about The Danish Fly Festival 1997 which took place May the 3rd and 4th 1997 in Kolding Denmark.

Jump to "Build a rod, 2, Handle"

BaR: Handle

Build a Rod, 2: The handle is both an important part of any rod and a whole project in itself when building a rod. Jan-Ole Willers helps you choose a shape, select the cork and plan added features such as a fighting butt.
Read the instructions to building a rod handle here

Find "Videos on GFF" on this page

Videos on GFF

In motion: We're entering the online video age. The plan is not to produce our own feature length DVD's in HD quality, but to expose the best online videos from other sources. So browse our first videos here and help us make this new feature better by pointing us to great online videos.
And add your own or other people's videos.

Click to see "The Copper Bully"

The Copper Bully

Gammarus: No sea trout box should be without a small Gammerus imitation, and the Copper Bully is one of the most efficient and easily tied ones. Consisting of very few materials in this version, it hardly gets any easier. It can also be a scud or a cress bug in a tight spot.
Follow the tying steps here.

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Crazy Dane

Non-tropic: Anybody can see that the Crazy Dane is really a Crazy Charlie - a very common salt water fly from the U.S. This type of fly is rarely seen in our part of the world, and I know no other fishers that use it.

This link takes you to "Tube Style Plate"

Tube Style Plate

Tube theme: All kinds of tubes in an overview. Want to get an idea of the richness in the tube fly world? This is one place to look.
See the plate here

Skip to "The Shank"

The Shank

Danish pattern: An almost naked fly with almost no materials.
See the pattern description here

Go to "Très Bien"

Très Bien

Bright: This is another bright tube fly for clear water designed by Danish fly tyer Ken Bonde Larsen. And another one that uses a cone to add weight to the front of the fly. And another one, where the metal cone can be replaced by a common head or a plastic cone.
You can see detailed step-by-step photos here.

See "Fishing Yellowstone Park" by clicking here

Yellowstone

US destinations: On horseback into the pristine areas of Yeallowstone in pursuit for cutthroats. Read Hamilton Brocious' fantastic story from a wilderness fishing camp with ready access to wild native cutthroat trout. So isolated that you won't see any other fishing groups during your whole stay.

Read more on "Dyeing with picric acid"

Picric acid

To dye for: Dyeing with picric acid yields colors between a gorgeous olive and an electric yellow.
Read all about it

See "Mark Vagn Hansen, Denmark" by clicking here

Mark Vagn Hansen, Denmark

Go to "Bamboo rod building, part 2"

Bamboo part 2

Split Cane: Part II - Select, Prep, and Split Bamboo: Harry Boyd continues his series on the construction of bamboo fly rods with a look at selecting, preparing, and splitting your culms of tonkin bamboo. See the article here.

Find "Jean Guy Côtes beautiful fly the Branchu" here

Branchu

L'orange: Branchu is the Québecois word for wood duck, and a very suitable name for this fly with its characteristic wood duck wing.
It's originated by Jean Guy Côte of Uni-Products, but has been slightly modified by GFF partner Martin Joergensen for his fishing.

See the pattern description here

More about "Good, Bad, and Ugly"

Good, Bad, and Ugly

Salmon Flies: Having wrapped my share of thread over the years, I thought it was time to revisit a long held interest of mine - traditional salmon flies. My first attempt years ago was pretty disappointing, and I was hoping my skills had evolved enough for me to take that next step and produce a better result.
Click here to read more

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