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This page simply lists all content chronologically, with the newest first. Use the pager in the bottom to navigate through quite a lot of articles, reviews, blog posts and much more.
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2020
Date Title Body Image

Viggo Larsson

Norwegian Viggo Larsson lived in Mo i Rana, a town in Helgeland in Northern Norway

Autumn Fly

A great looking and very catchy Danish sea trout fly, useful all year round in spite of the name.

Trophy rainbows in Slovakia

Read about Slovakian Andrej Polcic's fascination with the strong rainbow trout in his home rivers

Betters' Flies

Fran Betters was a creative tyer and originated several patterns that have become quite famous. Mike Hogue covers four of them in this article.

Einars’ Floating Foam Caddis Pupa

A great and high floating caddis fly made with foam as a base material and a very simple and cool technique.

Euro BWOs Revisited

In our continuous effort to obtain better and more practical mayfly imitations, we discovered a few new and simple solutions.

The GFF Interview

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

Durable flies: Wrapping thread

The basic technique of wrapping thread over - and under - materials is a key to getting flies that will hold well

Durable flies: Before you tie

One key to durability in flies is to prepare a bit before starting - and choosing the right hook, thread and materials

Durable flies: Why?

How to tie flies that last more than a cast, a trip, a month... heck, even a year. We're starting a series of articles with some tips on tying durable flies – and keeping them intact.

Kavik

The Kavik is a simple zonker-based streamer, well suited for a lot of different fish, and easy to adapt in color and material choice

Moulin’s Deer Hair Parachute

Swiss/Norwegian tyer Fabien Moulin stumbled upon a seemingly new way of creating a parachute hackle and wing in one.

George Grant Nymph

US fisherman and fly tyer George Grant came up with a type of nymph where both body and hackle uses special techniques.

The Monster Brown Trout of Thingvallavatn

The Icelandic lake Thingvallavatn has become synonymous with monster ice age brown trout. People from all over the world come to chase their dream fish. Many have their dream come true from the first cast, others go home empty handed.

The Atlantic Salmon Fly

Why review a 30-year old book? Well, because it's a great book that deserves some attention.
2019
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About getting skunked

A part of fishing is not catching anything. If you're only in it for the catching, there's something you have misunderstood.

Hardy’s Salmon Flies

Another massive work on classic salmon flies from UK writer Martin Lanigan-O'Keeffe, this time on the flies from the House of Hardy.

Reflections on the Loch

A book on UK style lake fishing for trout, written in a personal and entertaining - but still very informative - tone

The Gradac River in Serbia

Discover the myriad of opportunities that the Gradac River in Serbia has to offer.

Sasa Bencun Roka

Sasa Bencun Roka is a professional guide and fly tyer operating in Serbia.

Andrew Marshall

Andrew has been tying for some 35 or so years, much of that time in-hand without the aid of a vise.

Alan Petrucci

I have fished streamers ever since the first vacation we took to Mooselookmeguntic Lake in Rangeley Maine back in the mid 70's.

Hardy style reel cases

Leather maker Remus Stanescu describes the dirty work behind making a couple of Hardy style reel cases.

IKEA Fly Tying Board

How to make a 10 dollar tying station based on a cheap IKEA cutting board.

Pike Fever

Pike anglers have a new bible. This book essentially covers every conceivable aspect of pike fishing… and then some

The March Brown Legacy

The March Brown is one of the all time classic fly patterns, the origin of which must go back almost centuries.

The March Brown Odyssey

My venture into the history and legacy of the classic March Brown led to a whole lot of variations over the theme

Celebrating 10,000 videos

So, the Global FlyFisher’s video section just passed 10,000 videos. And suitably enough the 10K mark was a Davie McPhail video showing how to tie a muddler.

The Feather Bender's Flytying Techniques

When a great photographer, fly tyer and instructor writes a book, it’s likely to become a great book

My oldest piece of material

I have a dried hare skin, which I have owned for as long as I have tied flies. A lot of flies and a lot of wisdom has come from that skin.

An Italian take on Ora Smith

Italian fly tyer Giuseppe Finardi is intrigued by US Ora Smith's streamers featuring wings made almost exclusively from golden pheasant crest.

Giuseppe Finardi

Italian angler and fly tyer

Trout are stupid

A small book that debunks a lot of myths surrounding trout fishing – including the one that trout are cunning and intelligent hunters, able to trick anglers. They are not! Trout are stupid!

10K videos!

The number of videos on the Global FlyFisher video page is steadily closing in on 10,000!

Does anyone proofread this crap?

Yes, a non-native English speaker proofreads material from a host of mostly non-English amateur writers, and sometimes errors do slip through

Fish Art for the Stars

Brad Pitt’s New Movie Ad Astra has a Connection to Fly Fishing - and A Fly Fishing Painter’s Well Traveled and Well Lived Life

I'm on the air!

Dave Stewart from the podcast "Wet Fly Swing" contacted me for participation in one of his podcasts, and it’s now online to enjoy.

The magazine image system

The blocks of nicely laid out images on GFF has required quite a bit of work to refine.

The Magnus and Fred Clan

The classical Danish coastal flies Magnus and Grey Fred have been an inspiration for many derivative patterns as well as hybrids. This is their story.

Meeting Magnus

I had known Magnus for many years, the fly being a stable fly in my flybox. But it was only later that I met the man Magnus "live".

These videos will make you a better fly tyer

Renowned fly tyer and tying instructor Wayne Luallen presents a series of short videos, which will help you become a much better fly-tyer.

Flies Photo Gadget v2.0

Russian Ramil Yamaliev has upgraded his fly photo ringlight, and improved its performance significantly

America’s Favorite Flies

Impressing in both scope, size, page count and weight, this book presents 224 US fly tyers and their favorite patterns.

Omoe Brush in living color

I purchased a purple dyed golden pheasant skin and thought I'd tie a Purple Omoe Brush… and then things happened.

Today’s Fly

Over the years I have collected a ton of flies, tied by all kinds of tyers. I have started publishing pictures of of these flies.

Creative GeWe Wet Flies

A wonderful little book with Belgian Geert Werbrouck's beautiful wet flies. Lots of pictures, lots of patterns, lots of tying and material tips.

All your book are belong to us!

A rather far fetched transcript of an internet meme* actually quite well covers my book situation right now.

The Humpy Encyclopedia

It’s hard not to like a completely free e-book with detailed descriptions on how how to tie 12 (and then some) different variations of the Humpy. 80 pages of knowledge, tips and inspiration on a single pattern!

Adirondack Summer

Mountains, rivers, lakes, brooks and ponds. Loads of wildlife. A total of 6 million acres designated as "Forever Wild" ready to explore and fish.

Songo Smelt Bucktail Fly Tying Pattern

The Songo Smelt is a sweet little bucktail perfect for casting out in search of cruising landlocked salmon, brook trout and bass. The fly gets its...

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