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Jun 1. 2018
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No tsundoku here!

Sep 15. 2018
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Stacking up fishing books and never reading them… not here!

When real life takes over

Sep 13. 2018
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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
Blog entry
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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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.
Article

Farkas' doubles

Apr 16. 2018
Classics I get regular mails from Italian master salmon fly tyer Stefano Farkas. A couple of his recent flies were special.
See the flies here
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Videos

Nov 18. 2018
Video

Dette Coffin Fly

Materials Used: Hook: TMC 100SP BL {#10} Thread: UNI-Thread 8/0 {White} Hackle: Rooster Hackle {Badger} Wings: Teal Flank
Nov 18. 2018
Video

Artificial Coffin Fly Animation

A little animation/simulation I created during learning FEM (Finite Elements) and Groom tools in Houdini 16. Rendered in Arnold 5.
Nov 18. 2018
Video

Big New Zealand Trout, exploring new water

Buddy Alex returned so we headed out with fly rods in hand to explore new water in search of New Zealand wild rainbow and brown trout. we found everything we were looking for.
Nov 16. 2018
Video

Simple Crayfish

Crayfish, or also called crawdads are a common food source for many freshwater fish, especially bass. But in rivers and lakes where trout get predatory, they will also eat crayfish as well.
Nov 16. 2018
Video

Green Heron Micro Intruder

A mix between a Green spey, Gray Heron, and a Micro Intruder... this is the Green Heron Micro Intruder.
Nov 15. 2018
Video

Omo Brush

Click the link below here you will find the full materiallist:https://www.flytying.eu/product/omoe-boersten-14351/
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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
Article

Childers

Feb 4. 2018
Full dressed Italian Stefano Farkas continues to supply the most astonishing full dressed salmon flies.
See his latest fly here.
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