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2022

Date	Title	Body	Image
May 12. 2022	Primordial Bonefish Stew	This saltwater variation of Trevor Tanner’s Primordial Carp Stew works very well at fooling large spooky bonefish in shallow water
May 7. 2022	Stitch-Up Shrimp	This scud pattern uses a simple sewing technique to add the legs that are a common trait for these widespread crustaceans, which are high in the fish menu in both fresh- and saltwater
Apr 22. 2022	Sleekit Streamer	A productive zonker pattern tied with synthetic fur. Easy to tie, easy to cast.
Apr 13. 2022	The Water’s Violin	A poem about fly-fishing inspired by Bela Bartok
Mar 31. 2022	Organzackle	This nymph pattern teaches you how to make a sparkling hackle from organza ribbon – in two different ways even!
Mar 30. 2022	Virtual fly tying	During Corona it has become quite common to have social gatherings online - Skype, Zoom, Teams ... you name it. Communal fly tying can be done in the same way
Mar 17. 2022	Nick Thomas	Fly fisher, author and creative "pattern inventor" Nick Thomas lives in South Wales
Mar 17. 2022	Combover	The Combover is a generic mayfly nymph imitation. It gets its name from the hairstyle, now thankfully rarely seen.
Mar 2. 2022	Tom’s new Hummingbirds	Dutch Tom Biesot has shown his skills in making tying tools before, and now takes his Hummingbird bobbin holder to new levels.
Feb 24. 2022	Big Flies Photo Gadget	I have covered lighting flies for photography in various articles, and mentioned Siberian Ramil Yamaliev’s gadgets before. Here’s another one.
Feb 21. 2022	Craft Beer Squid	A simple, small squid pattern aimed at all the fish that enjoy eating little, cute cuttlefish
Feb 19. 2022	Fly Couture	Some tyers tie different flies. Scottish Nick Thomas, now Wales based, is one of them. And he wrote a book about it.
Feb 13. 2022	Help wanted	The Global FlyFisher is in dire need of new and fresh content, and you can help! This article explains why - and what you can do.

2021

Date	Title	Body	Image
Dec 14. 2021	Linked flies revisited	Some 25 years ago, I experimented with what I back then referred to as "linked flies". Today they’d be called articulated, and I have taken the tying method up again.
Dec 1. 2021	Salty Sardinia	In the summer of 2020, we were looking for a vacation spot and settled in on Sardinia, which meant that Mediterranean fly fishing was an option.
Nov 22. 2021	YR3D dubbing brush tool	Siberian Ramil Yamaliev makes a lot of things on his 3D printer - from fly reels to lamps. And then this brilliant dubbing brush twister.
Nov 9. 2021	The Perfect Seven	Are you looking for a perfect single-hand gear set-up for salmon fishing? Here’s Nils Folmer Jorgensen’s preferred tools, how he ended there and his honest opinion on why.
Oct 24. 2021	Flytying for Beginners	A beginner's book that I'd actually recommend to beginners! Great pattern selection, excellent photography and nicely coupled to online videos.
Oct 17. 2021	Dron’s Little Mice Gugger	Mouse patterns can be highly effective on some species of fish. A small mouse is a good meal for most predators, and this pattern is easy to tie, and a great rodent imitation
Sep 29. 2021	The up-to-date game	Maintaining a site with close to 18,000 pictures, 11,000+ video links and close to 3,000 articles means having a lot of stuff to keep up-to-date
Sep 14. 2021	Dron Lee	Dron Lee is an innovative fly tyer from Malaysia.
Sep 13. 2021	Rattle.Bum Popper	Dron Lee from Malaysia has created this excellent little popper using a combination of foam and braided tube - and a rattle for some extra noise
Jul 18. 2021	DIY wooden landing net	Wooden landing nets might not seem like the easiest or least expensive DIY-project, but this article shows how to easily make one almost for free
Jul 13. 2021	Syd Glasso	Art Lingren's book on Syd Glasso and his flies pays well deserved homage to a very influential salmon fly tyer
Jul 7. 2021	The Grizzly Wonder	Grizzly hackle is something which most tyers use all the time and which we all take for granted, but in my eyes grizzly isn't nearly as appreciated as it deserves to be
Jul 1. 2021	Josephine Baker	This fly was originally a colorful bream fly from the southern US called Bead Butt or Jennifer Lopez. I transformed it to fit my needs and named my version Josephine Baker
Jun 29. 2021	A lousy old fly rod	Some years back I had to fish with the oldest and worst fly rod I ever owned... and you know what? It wasn't bad at all.
Jun 17. 2021	NailFly	Here’s a simple pattern for a summer salmon fly, which can be varied almost endlessly. It uses nail polish for the body and is super fast to tie.
May 17. 2021	GFF Survived!	Some of you may have noticed that it’s been awfully quiet here lately. Covid was here…
Mar 19. 2021	Freaner’s Flasher Streamer	A simple and flashy streamer that’s originally designed for smallmouth bass
Mar 16. 2021	Buying Saddle Hackle	What to look for when buying coarser saddle hackle - for saltwater and pike flies, for streamers, for salmon flies or other uses
Mar 11. 2021	Einars’ Vulgata Emerger	This emerger pattern uses CDC and foam to create the floating thorax that’s typical of emerging insects
Mar 5. 2021	Jim Burchette	Jim Burchette resides in Tennessee spending his days fishing, tying flies, building rods, writing fly tying tutorials.
Mar 5. 2021	Red Tag Revisited	I always loved the Red Tag. I have tied and fished this fly a thousand times, but tend to basically do it the same way every time. Not so anymore!
Mar 5. 2021	Red Tag Odyssey	A bunch of pattern descriptions and materials lists for flies inspired by the Red Tag
Feb 23. 2021	Nymphing Without An Indicator	Keeping it simple. Understanding the advantages of nymphing without an indicator and how to do it best.
Feb 20. 2021	Coty Perry	Coty comes from a long line of bass anglers.
Feb 3. 2021	Books that formed me	...as a fly tyer and flyfisher, that is. Other books influenced me as a person, but that’s a whole other story.
Jan 10. 2021	The Feather Mechanic	This is a book I have been looking forward to for a while. And it doesn’t disappoint.
Jan 7. 2021	Being on Instagram	Social media can be a strange experience. It's really a mixed bag. And on Instagram 40% of all anglers seem to be women!

2020

Date	Title	Body	Image
Dec 19. 2020	A heartfelt thank you!	It’s been one and a half years since I started accepting donations to keep the site running, and the support has been overwhelming!
Dec 14. 2020	Chalk and Cheese	An English flyfisher acquires a house in France - which just happens to have a chalk stream running its property
Dec 9. 2020	Fish Scaled Up	Danish fly angler and professional photographer Søren Skarby got an idea: to photograph fish like they'd never been photographed before
Dec 6. 2020	Counting newsletter openings and clicks	I have build a small Drupal-module, which enables me to see how many recipients open my newsletters and click on links in it
Dec 2. 2020	Merging Wordpress content into Drupal	There’s a bunch of modules to help importing content into Drupal. My experience is that they are inadequate, and don’t do what I need. I prefer DIY.
Nov 28. 2020	Streamers 365 joins the Global FlyFisher!	The renowned streamer aficionado site streamers365.com is shutting down, but GFF has "inherited" all its fantastic content.
Nov 20. 2020	Swimming Caddis Pupa	This ragged looking caddis pupa from the hands of Norwegian Viggo Larsson will work well on both fast and calm water
Nov 13. 2020	Simple Flies	Simple is good. Not primitive… simple. And this is another fine book with simple fly patterns.
Nov 12. 2020	Motley Flies	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.
Nov 1. 2020	Nick Mayer	Nick Mayer's watercolors are large, colorful and stunningly beautiful. Read about his journey from his childhood sketchbook to becoming a full time artist.