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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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A heartfelt thank you!

Dec 19. 2020
Money It’s been one and a half years since I started accepting donations to keep the site running, and the support has been overwhelming!
Thanks
Review

Chalk and Cheese

Dec 14. 2020
French An English flyfisher acquires a house in France - which just happens to have a chalk stream running its property
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.
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Videos

Feb 21. 2021
Video

Sculpin Streamer

Hi Folks and welcome to my Channel, i hope you enjoy your stay and learn something new.
Feb 21. 2021
Video

Deceiver

A fly for the Lockdown virtual fly tying day 21/02/21! The Deceiver a great bait fish imitation for salt and fresh water predators .
Feb 21. 2021
Video

Green Peter Detached Bodied Dry Fly

Fly for the Lockdown Virtual Fly Tying Day February 2021 Timetable...
Feb 21. 2021
Video

Suggestive Emerger

OK, Lockdown Fly Tying Day whats it all about? I have got together with several other YouTubers to bring you a day of fly tying videos.
Feb 20. 2021
Video

Spiral Shrimp

A great looking shrimp that looks complicated but is really easy. With lots of internal structure, just like a natural shrimp, this one looks complicated to tie. It’s not.
Feb 19. 2021
Video

Pine Squirrel Leech

Simple yet effective sculpin or leech. Pine squirrel is a great material for making small streamers.
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Article

Autumn Fly

Sep 7. 2020
Colors A great looking and very catchy Danish sea trout fly, useful all year round in spite of the name.
See how to tie it here
Article

Trophy rainbows in Slovakia

Sep 4. 2020
Europe Read about Slovakian Andrej Polcic's fascination with the strong rainbow trout in his home rivers
Read much more here
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.
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