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2019

Date	Title	Body	Image
Jul 20. 2019	Bob brought two books	GFF partner Bob Petti visited, and even though we didn’t fish or tie flies, we talked quite a bit about fishing… and he brought two books
Jul 16. 2019	Golden Pinner	Tom Bank's Golden Pinner Streamer Fly Tom is a New England fly tyer and angler who loves to fish the big lakes of Maine and New Hampshire. He's been...
Jul 13. 2019	River Snook	River Fly Fishing for snook in Southwest Florida is an excellent alternative to pursuing this prized gamefish in the mangroves or the open coastal water
Jul 4. 2019	Faroese redemption	Make sure your waders are suited for winter fishing and remember warm socks – as well as a local guide. Then you are ready for the north Atlantic fishing paradise.
Jun 30. 2019	Fly Fishing Treasures	I didn’t know that I was interested in collecting fly fishing paraphernalia – until I read Steve Woit’s book
Jun 27. 2019	Sea Trout CDC&Elk	The CDC&Elk is a famous and efficient Caddis dry fly. This variation works for Baltic sea trout... and was actually inspired by the bonefish version of the fly
Jun 24. 2019	The Brown Trout-Atlantic Salmon Nexus	When an author asks you to provide content for a book, it's hard not to think "That's going to be one heck of a book!"
Jun 20. 2019	Zkinny	A really simple and easy little baitfish fly, which will work for a lot of different fish and can be varied endlessly
Jun 19. 2019	Some books arrived	A few things happened during the last couple months that made me think of, buy and read nice fishing books again.
Jun 17. 2019	Flies Photo Gadget	This 3D-printed contraption is a fly holder with built in light designed for fly photography.
Jun 14. 2019	Sea trout and foam flies	Fishing Baltic sea trout in the surface with waking foam flies can be a lot of fun. Here’s how to do it – and a pattern that works.
Jun 13. 2019	Claus Eriksen	Danish angler Claus Eriksen is the managing directo
May 24. 2019	Green Caddis Larvae	Some say that caddisflies are even more important than mayflies. For us flyfishers that is probably correct. A good caddis pattern can save your day.
Mar 8. 2019	Pacific Northwest Streamer Conversions	A small series of flies from Roy Patrick's pattern book converted into streamers
Mar 7. 2019	Danish Fly Festival Impressions	Another Danish Fly Festival is over, and as always it was a great experience. Lots of people to meet, lots of things to see.
Mar 4. 2019	Hair pin intruder shanks	I have been making my own intruder shanks from straight hair pins for a while, and they are easy to make, inexpensive and work really well.
Feb 25. 2019	Why I like tying at shows	In a few days I'm leaving for the Danish Fly Festival, and there I will be tying in the tyers row, an activity that I love
Feb 24. 2019	The Brown Owl	This very buggy looking streamer-slash-stonefly-slash-nymph caught my eye. Such a fly should be able to catch almost any kind of trout
Feb 19. 2019	Unlimited access... not	In principle there's free and unlimited access to all coasts in Denmark. That's what the law says. But in many places reality is different.
Feb 19. 2019	Rotating your bobbin holder	If you want to use the advantages of controlling twist in your tying thread, you need a bobbin holder that allows rotation. Not all do.
Feb 17. 2019	25 years online!	You won’t find many web sites, which have been running for 25 years, and I seriously doubt that any current fly fishing sites have a quarter century long history
Feb 12. 2019	Steelhead Fly Tying	Beautiful photos, lots of detailed text and schoolbook step-by-step instructions on how to tie 24 fantastic looking steelhead flies
Feb 7. 2019	GFF on Instagram	The Global FlyFisher has long been on various social media, and is now on Instagram too
Jan 30. 2019	El Grande	How James Widmaier caught a record breaking sailfish during his 50th wedding anniversary stay with his wife in Costa Rica
Jan 28. 2019	James Widmaier	I have been fly fishing and tying flies for 60 years. My journeys included trout, salmon, and saltwater adventures in Canada, Costa Rica, and principally the United States.
Jan 26. 2019	Intruder conversions	I got the crazy idea to convert some Danish sea trout and salmon flies to intruders. It worked out surprisingly well.
Jan 24. 2019	Wayne's Tying Tips	Tying tips and techniques in small,concentrated, quick-to-watch, easy-to-catch videos.
Jan 23. 2019	The Flying Flash Carpet	Look! It’s a bird... It’s a plane... It’s the Flying Flash Carpet! A pike fly out of this world.
Jan 21. 2019	Using bead chains	Plain and simple bead chain is one of the cheapest fly tying materials around, but very useful and a great addition to many flies.
Jan 21. 2019	Flies for a friend	A good friend offered me a macro flash he didn't use any more in exchange for a handful of flies
Jan 19. 2019	The Mörrum Fly	The Mörrum fly has been named after the south Swedish river Mörrum, but is also sometimes referred to as The Grünewalder after its originator, Danish Jan Grünwald
Jan 16. 2019	Tying better flies	Fabien Moulin aims to tie some really good looking flies, and ponders a bit about how to improve as a fly tyer.
Jan 9. 2019	My book register	My books used to be ordered by black magic, essentially a system where I stuffed in new titles where there was space. Things have changed.
Jan 9. 2019	Bar Guac Hopper	This pattern, which takes its name from the popular appetizer Guacamole, was inspired by the 'Bar Guac' special at a local fly fishing hangout.
Jan 5. 2019	Top Saltwater Flies	An impressing three volume collection of patterns for the most sought after fish in warm saltwater

2018

Date	Title	Body	Image
Dec 31. 2018	Grasshopper Valley	Fly fishing with terrestrials in Slovakia at its best.
Dec 28. 2018	CDC Loop Wing Foam Emerger	A simple and very hard-to-sink emerger from Russian Dmitri Tseliaritski
Dec 20. 2018	The Prince	There are quite a few rivers around Iceland claiming the queen crown. But there is only one Prince. Meet the river Hofsá
Dec 17. 2018	Crystallin Task Light	My search for a great fly tying lamp may be over. This one is close to ideal for my purposes
Dec 14. 2018	Merry Christmas 2018	Another year passed, and the Global FlyFisher still tugs along, quietly, continuously expanding, larger than ever, celebrating its 24th Christmas
Dec 11. 2018	November, November, November, November	A small gallery of images from November and December on the Baltic coast, showing the ambiance during these last months of the year
Dec 9. 2018	Danish Fly Festival 2019	The biennial gathering of fly anglers, casters, tyers, vendors, artists, artisans and other good people will take place again in Denmark in early March 2019
Dec 8. 2018	Green Highlander	Another beautiful, full dressed salmon fly from Italian Stefano Farkas. This time a Green Highlander.
Dec 4. 2018	Blue Mist	This is an impressionistic streamer, tied to match the schooling sardines being eaten by baby tarpon. It has fooled many fish
Dec 2. 2018	Blue Devil Variant	Tied by: Davie McPhail Originated by: Carrie Stevens Hook: Partridge CS15 #2 Thread: 8/0 White (underbody) Tag: Silver flat braid Body:Black 6/0...
Nov 30. 2018	5 Minute Bug	This little beetle imitation is amazingly lifelike. Using few and ordinary materials, Russian tyer Dmitri Tseliaritski makes it quick and easy to tie.
Nov 30. 2018	Alan Youell	Alan hails from Western Canada and currently makes his home in Calgary, Alberta
Nov 26. 2018	Blueback trout Thunder Creek Minnow	The Thunder Creek series of flies was created by fisherman and commercial tyer Keith Fulsher of Eastchester, NY. The fly was developed because he felt...
Nov 24. 2018	Lazy loading	Lazy loading is a performance improvement where images (and other assets) are loaded when needed, not when the page is loaded
Nov 20. 2018	The Mighty Green Drake	The large mayflies are a summer phenomenon, but it might be worth reading up on off season.