Item: ACA's Beginner's Guide to Fly Casting
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Author: Martin Joergensen

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ACA's Beginner's Guide to Fly Casting

Hauling A true beginner's guide to casting, providing basic knowledge of gear and casting, advice on how to get better, and help in troubleshooting.

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The LAW of attraction

I was among the lucky fly-tyers who managed to lay my hand on one of Lawrence Waldron's LAW fly-tying vises while he made them - and they could be bought at reasonable prices.

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Stacking up fishing books and never reading them… not here!

When real life takes over

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The publishing pace on GFF has almost come to a standstill. Real life has stuck its ugly head in the door and brought paid work

Three strikes...

Jun 11. 2018

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No, not strikes from fish, but strikes from spammers and wannabe guest posters who try to get their spam published on GFF. Three strikes and they get this.

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Farkas' doubles

Classics I get regular mails from Italian master salmon fly tyer Stefano Farkas. A couple of his recent flies were special.

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Sep 11. 2018 Video CuCu Nymph Two different sizes and contrasting colours of copper wire give the CuCu its shape and name.	Sep 10. 2018 Video Crazy good fishing There were so many fish in this pool! Spent the weekend fly fishing, guiding for rainbow trout here in the north island of New Zealand. Found a spare moment to film a video.	Sep 9. 2018 Video Swinging Flies for FISH! I have a lot of work on at the moment so not a lot of time to film. I managed to find a couple hours to fish and film a video on the Tongariro river and Hinemiaiaia stream.

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Fishing a bubble

Even though you might not be able to use a flyrod, you can fish with a fly anyway. Use a spinning rod and a casting float, and you will be able to cover a lot of water, fish in harsh conditions, cast large flies and even fish dries or nymphs in a stream.

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Limay in November

Spring A failed autumn trip to the Patagonia river Limay sparked a spring trip this last November

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Article Optic Flies Mar 14. 2018 History With names that sounded fresh, in-your-face and downright sexy, the Optic Fly series entered the stage like a warm summer wind in the 1960’s cold war era. Read a book excerpt here	Review ABU Optic Flies Mar 14. 2018 Classics A small book written by Danish Michael Jensen about Swedish ABU's renown series of streamers from the 60's, known as the Optic Flies.	Article Tom’s bobbin holders Mar 1. 2018 DIY Get ready to meet the “Hummingbird”, a very different bobbin holder designed and made by Dutch Tom Biesot See the article here
Article Homage to Carrie Stevens Feb 18. 2018 Classic Italian master fly tyer Stefano Farkas has tied a Carrie Stevens streamer in the style of his full dressed salmon flies. See the pictures here	Review Designing Poppers, Sliders & Divers Feb 9. 2018 Bugs This book raises the bar for warm water fly rod lure making books. Elmer Meiler reviews Steve Schweitzer's book.	Article DIY dubbing brush maker Feb 7. 2018 Spinning Bretislav has a little machine in his collection of fly-tying tools. It was made by his father about 20 years back. See how to make it here

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Article Roland Henrion Jul 17. 2018 Fishy art Recently Belgian Roland Henrion started focusing more on his art, and that made him a candidate for our fishy artists series. See some samples here	Article My Erna Jul 14. 2018 Iceland A well proven Icelandic hair winged salmon fly, responsible for catching many large salmon See the pattern here	Review Petitjean CDC Jun 27. 2018 Monograph A massive book, solely on CDC-feathers, -flies and -tying techniques by Swiss CDC master Marc Petitjean.
Article Wiggling Frog Legs Jun 17. 2018 Froggy Frogs are high on the menu for many fish If there's one thing that gives away a swimming frog, it's the legs! Learn to make sexy frog legs here.	Review The Feather Thief May 21. 2018 Full dressed A fascinating "true crime" story that tells about the theft of skins from protected bird from a natural history museum in the UK with the purpose of using them for fly tying	Article Dragons and Damsels May 12. 2018 Frequent fliers Odonata is the Latin name for the order of dragonflies and damselflies. This article is about them. Learn to tie and fish them.

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