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Being on Instagram

Jan 7. 2021
Blog entry
Social media can be a strange experience. It’s really a mixed bag. And on Instagram 40% of all anglers seem to be women!

About getting skunked

Dec 17. 2019
Blog entry
A part of fishing is not catching anything. If you’re only in it for the catching, there’s something you have misunderstood.

Does anyone proofread this crap?

Oct 4. 2019
Blog entry
Yes, a non-native English speaker proofreads material from a host of mostly non-English amateur writers, and sometimes errors do slip through
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Article

Fish Scaled Up

Dec 8. 2020
Large Danish fly angler and professional photographer Søren Skarby got an idea: to photograph fish like they'd never been photographed before
More here
Article

Streamers 365 joins the Global FlyFisher!

Nov 28. 2020
Merger The renowned streamer aficionado site streamers365.com is shutting down, but GFF has "inherited" all its fantastic content.
Read about it here
Article

Swimming Caddis Pupa

Nov 20. 2020
Norwegian This ragged looking caddis pupa from the hands of Norwegian Viggo Larsson will work well on both fast and calm water
See how to tie it here
Review

Simple Flies

Nov 13. 2020
Three materials Simple is good. Not primitive… simple. And this is another fine book with simple fly patterns.
Article

Motley Flies

Nov 12. 2020
Assorted I recently went through my large archive of images. Suddenly I had a whole bunch of fly images. I gathered them into a small gallery.
See it here
Article

Nick Mayer

Nov 1. 2020
Fishy art Nick Mayer's watercolors are large, colorful and stunningly beautiful. Read about his journey from his childhood sketchbook to becoming a full time artist.
The story is told here
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Videos

Jan 18. 2021
Video

Holographic Buzzer

Happy New Year Friends. Great Pattern for all Year Round, also works well in Winter. Hook size 10 Thread Black Body & Cheeks Red Holo Tinsel
Jan 18. 2021
Video

Swimbait BULKhead

This video breaks down the Swimbait Rigging for the 6/0 PR378 GB Predator Swimbait Hook and shows a detailed Step by Step tying instruction for dressing a Bob Popovics' BULKhead Fleye.
Jan 18. 2021
Video

A successful and simple dry fly ant
Jan 18. 2021
Video

Kendjam

"Kendjam - Heart of the Amazon” is a Catch Magazine video with heart and soul.
Jan 18. 2021
Video

Irish Lough Style Stimulator

Materials Used; Hook, Size 8 Stimulator or Dry Fly Thread, Uni-8/0 Fire Orange Rib, Oval Gold Tinsel or Wire Body, Olive Seals Fur or Sub
Jan 18. 2021
Video

Joseph Ludkin Reel Wing Spinner

Our old friend John Petermann who is a very skilled flyfisher, certified flycaster and finally but not at least he is a very creative flytyer tying some excellent flies for all kind of fish he is t
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Article

Betters' Flies

Sep 1. 2020
Dries Fran Betters was a creative tyer and originated several patterns that have become quite famous. Mike Hogue covers four of them in this article.
See the original flies here
Article

Einars’ Floating Foam Caddis Pupa

May 5. 2020
Burnt A great and high floating caddis fly made with foam as a base material and a very simple and cool technique.
See the pattern here
Article

Euro BWOs Revisited

Apr 14. 2020
Imitations In our continuous effort to obtain better and more practical mayfly imitations, we discovered a few new and simple solutions.
Much more here.
Article

The GFF Interview

Mar 13. 2020
In the press GFF gets too little press coverage, so I interviewed myself, and asked myself a number of intelligent questions and offered some equally brilliant answers.
Article

Durable flies: Wrapping thread

Mar 3. 2020
Tied to hold The basic technique of wrapping thread over - and under - materials is a key to getting flies that will hold well
Read the third chapter here.
Article

Durable flies: Before you tie

Feb 27. 2020
Tied to hold One key to durability in flies is to prepare a bit before starting - and choosing the right hook, thread and materials
Read the second chapter here.
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