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2009

Date	Title	Body	Image
Dec 16. 2009	Giants of the Em	Large Baltic sea trout caught on spey rods in the classical waters of the river Em. Beautiful autumn impressions from a water that has been world class for a century.
Dec 15. 2009	The Source - Tasmania	Is Tasmania the new black? A new spot on the fly angler's map replacing New Zealand, which has been on there for so many years?
Dec 14. 2009	Secret Flies	Match fishing is not very popular in the US.
Dec 8. 2009	A new breed	Fly fishing videos have gone through an amazing development during the last five years. Once the recipe was simple: get hold of a couple of seasoned anglers, hook up with some upscale lodges and some guides needing some marketing and... action!
Dec 6. 2009	Videos on GFF	We're entering the online video age. The plan is not to produce our own feature length DVD's in HD quality, but to expose the best online videos from other sources. So browse our first videos here and help us make this new feature better by pointing us to great online videos.
Nov 26. 2009	Para-Hackle Emerger	Effective anglers carry a myriad of emerger-style flies to take picky trout during hatches. While there are many styles of emergers to choose from, para-hackle style flies may not come to mind first. Tying emergers para-hackle style is a forgotten technique not often taught and even fished less. We at GFF can't understand why!?! Read along as GFF partner Steve Schweitzer walks you through the
Nov 14. 2009	BC Chronicles part 3	Well, BC is over and we've been home for a while now. And what a trip!
Nov 14. 2009	Heads or tails	If this permit video trailer turns into a DVD, I'm on the preorder list!
Nov 13. 2009	Pesca a mosca	It's often said that fly fishing is a universal language. I can confirm that.
Nov 13. 2009	Nervous Water DVD	I stumbled over this DVD while traveling in Canada, and fell for it's value for money. You get more than three hours of high class fishing video for a price of 25 US dollars.
Nov 12. 2009	Fly Fisherman's Guide to Saltwater Prey	If you are into fly fishing saltwater and like to tie your own flies, this is a book worth considering.
Nov 12. 2009	The Scandinavian Spey Cast - Part II
Sep 9. 2009	The BC Chronicles part 2	Less than a month to the trip, and things are completely chaos!
Aug 22. 2009	Picky Bastard Cork	If you thought your rod had good cork, watch Andy Royer pick out the really good stuff
Jun 25. 2009	1000!	Here at GFF we don't hesitate to celebrate any occasion, which marks a milestone in the the history of this site and its progress. And here's another such milestone: this very article is actually entry number 1000 in our list of entries in the sitemap. A really sharp corner.
Jun 22. 2009	Carlos R. Heinsohn	I’m probably one of the first addicts of GFF since the beginnings. Most of my virtual fishing has been made on those “waters” for the last ten years. I live in Bogotá, Colombia, on the northern corner of South America.
Jun 19. 2009	Lake Champ	Many years ago, when Colombian Carlos Heinsohn began to tie flies, he didn't have more than a few basic materials and not more than three models of hooks. He wanted a huge dragonfly nymph, so he made one almost entirely with black and brown marabou on a #6 hook with a few wraps of copper wire.
Jun 15. 2009	Tying Furled Flies	Nice flies, nice pictures, nice book! What can I say other than I think this is a very nice book? Well, I might consider explaining why I think this is a nice book...
Jun 14. 2009	Gear pictures	Martin maintains an archive of fly-fishing images together with a bunch of fishing friends. Nowadays it contains almost 12,000 images, and of those about 1,253 or more than 10% are tagged "gear". They take a lot of gear pictures.
May 31. 2009	Internet Flies	All of a sudden, the new season or a spontaneous fly fishing trip with your best buddy is imminent. At that stage, you may think about ordering flies through an online shop. Selling flies through the Internet is a growing business. There is a vast number of private and commercial suppliers of flies and a large range of prices and qualities.
May 17. 2009	The White	The White is a stable pattern in originator Rasmus Hansen's coastal sea trout flybox, He uses it as a provocation (read: attractor) or as a shrimp imitation, and prefers it for turbulent water and autumn fishing. The fly is simple, one color only, and one of these universal flies that can catch anything.
May 15. 2009	DeYoung all over	Fishy artist Derek DeYoung is all over the place
May 10. 2009	Once in a Blue Moon	I find it hard say anything bad about this DVD.
May 5. 2009	Breaking the LAW	Martin had a tremendous fly reel breakdown this past season! Upon returning from a fishing trip he did one one the rare maintenance rinses of his LAW-reel, and noticed that the small rubber tube holding the ratchet had cracked. Disaster!
Apr 28. 2009	Tupperware-party with fly rods	We had some fun tonight with a bunch of CTS-rods built by Danish Ussing & Bech
Apr 13. 2009	Baskets, trays, buckets	Sometimes you want to make sure that your line doesn't tangle and sometimes you want to make longer casts. A line or stripping basket, bucket or tray may be the solution. This article covers a bunch of types from rigid plastic buckets to ingenious contraptions with spikes and hooks.
Apr 12. 2009	The BC Chronicles part 1	The first steps towards a two week BC trip in October
Apr 2. 2009	Bent Rods	This might be considered a strange and kind of exotic photography subject to write a whole article about, but looking at the images that my fishing friends and I shoot, I can see that it's a very popular thing to shoot. As soon as a fish is hooked, we rush to the scene, and get quite a few bent rod pictures.
Apr 2. 2009	Rügen bound	I'll be leaving for the first real spring fishing tomorrow - four days on German Rügen
Mar 29. 2009	Shark's Caddis Larva	This is a very simple fly imitating the caddis larva. Some may call it realistic fly, some will say impressionistic, but no matter what, the originator says with 100% certainty that it's a killer pattern and he has caught lots of fish with it in many different places.
Mar 28. 2009	The Simplest Fly	“What is this” “A fly!” “What kind of fly” “Well, this is a fly that imitates a beetle” The fly that he showed me then was really huge one, may be about 2 - 2,5 centimeters or almost and inch in diameter. “Wow, why is it so big?” “Because I am an old man, I can not see well”
Mar 15. 2009	The Copper Bully	No sea trout box should be without a small Gammerus imitation, and the Copper Bully is one of the most efficient and easily tied ones. Consisting of very few materials in this version, it hardly gets any easier. It can also be a scud or a cress bug in a tight spot.
Mar 15. 2009	Hare's Ear Bug	Fished actively over sea weed and its likely to be mistaken for a gammarus. Same thing in a lake. Dead drifted or fished using a lift in a stream, it looks like a tumbling scud or cress bug or even a hatching caddis. What the fish think, I don't know, but it's a fact that they find it edible.
Mar 12. 2009	The Charlie Fly	The Charlie Fly was inspired by the underfur from the originator's Chocolate Lab. Ken Bonde Larsen's dog has unwillingly become the material manufacturer for this great sea trout producer. As it often is with Danish with sea trout flies it's a small, generic pattern.
Mar 11. 2009	Shark's Wasp	Bulgarian fly tyer and fly angler Radoslav Kiskinov takes another stab at imitating a terrestrial insect - this time the wasp - and with usual skill he manages to produce a very life-like fly. Bulgarian anglers and Bulgarian fish love it.
Mar 11. 2009	Radoslav Kiskinov	Bulgarian fly fisher and fly tier Radoslav Kiskinov.
Mar 10. 2009	Domestic Fly	The common housefly is indeed... eh.... common, and an obvious insect to imitate. Bulgarian Radoslav Kiskinov has made a simple but very efficient pattern imitating Musca domestica using foam, raffia and peacock herl, which will catch several species when fished dry.
Mar 8. 2009	Cabin fever	Spring where art thou?
Mar 4. 2009	Humminbird Smartcast 35	Despite its diminutive size, this innovative wrist-watch display and remote sonar sensor gives float tubers and kayakers a truly portable way to find fishy water faster. And at a MSRP of $80 USD, the price point is wallet friendly too. Read GFF's review of this handy (pun intended) device which may
Mar 1. 2009	Neo-Classic - instructions	Step by step instructions for a classic salmon fly.
Feb 28. 2009	The Barbell Tube	Steve Egge has been spending some time lately playing at the vise with some interesting bottle tubes.Here is his latest, which shows how varied you can be with tube tying. Tying behind the tube, on the tube body and in front of the tube.
Feb 18. 2009	GFF on Twitter	The Global FlyFisher can now be found on Twitter.
Feb 14. 2009	Twitter	You can now follow The Global FlyFisher on Twitter
Feb 12. 2009	Kola autumn	After a famly vacation to Turkey, Lithuanian Mindaugas Banelis decided it was high time to go fishing somewhere in the North. The target was salmon. He decided that the Kola Peninsula was the ideal place to travel to. So he set off.
Feb 9. 2009	The Complete Illustrated Directory of Salmon Flies	Looking at the beautiful computer drawn flies on the cover of this latest and largest volume by Chris Mann, you might be tempted to think that we're talking about a soup stone project, where Chris
Feb 3. 2009	Waterscapes	Capturing the essence of the environment in which we fish can be tough. The vistas, the beauty, the clarity or the wildness of the water. How do we get all that into our cameras? This article in our Better Fishing Pictures covers the subject.
Jan 29. 2009	Muskie on the Fly	"Muskie are a lot like northern pike except - you can actually catch northern pike!" - Anonymous Canadian fishing guide
Jan 27. 2009	Sean Seal	"I really can't pin down exactly when I started doing artwork. I've always done it." These are the words of Sean Seal when presented with the question "how did it start?". Based in Bay City, Michigan, which is not exactly "a fly fishing paradise" as he says, he has still taken on fly fishing as a subject for his art.
Jan 25. 2009	Classics	Tying flies not meant for fishing sounds odd to some but dragging others into the world of advanced techniques. Anders Ovesen takes us into his cave of threads and feathers and reveals some puzzles needed to tie da old school style. Hang on to this detailed description and fly to the
Jan 23. 2009	Whipfinish video	This short video shows you how to whip finish with your fingers rather than using a tool. It's quite easy, looks cool and saves you trying to localize that whipfinisher on your messy tying table - that is if you are like the rest of us...