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2008

Date	Title	Body	Image
Aug 12. 2008	A Pheasant Under Glass	Two seemingly unrelated events led tube fly tyer par excellence Bob Kenly to this method of tying and to discover a coloring system that I have never tried before: dyed Lady Amherst tail feathers and a note requesting something different to be thrown in the water for salmon in New Foundland.
Aug 11. 2008	Small Fry, 5	The white perch is actually an anadromous silver bass in the fish family Moronidae. This game panfish is the little cousin of the striped bass and shares much of the same habitat: the brackish tidal estuaries and adjacent rivers of the mid-Atlantic and New England states.
Jul 30. 2008	Sharks!	When two friends go down the road, for a late afternoon fly fishing session on the reefs, and take their #14 and #15 rods... You know that there is something radically wrong, upstairs. This is the story of the two friends Jacques Visser and Jimmy Eagleton who have taken on the South African sharks.
Jul 28. 2008	Small Fry, 4	I have been an amateur musician for many years, comfortable on both keys and strings, and to use an analogy from that facet of my life I will state that, to me, the rock bass is akin to a punk rock song — It hits you hard, is pugnacious and tough up front, and though it doesn’t last too long, it is undeniably a strong, clever, and classic rocker.
Jul 23. 2008	Bon A(d)venture - Day 1	Two days of fishing in one of the world's clearest salmon rivers, Bon Aventure, Gaspé, French Canada. Follow Kasper Mühlbach for two days on this renowned river, famous for it's fantastic dry fly fishing for salmon but also known for plenty of grilse and larger atlantic salmon.
Jul 14. 2008	Small Fry, 3	Lepomis auritus, the redbreast sunfish, does not receive the front-page press of its cousins the bluegill, the crappie, and the black bass. This species deserves increased specific attention, though, especially from fly anglers who prefer to fish flowing water, because the redbreast is the stream sunfish.
Jul 10. 2008	Fish Bum Volume I: Mongolia	The opening scenes of River Wolf - after the titles - are no less than breathtaking. And by that I mean breathtaking in the literal sense of the word.
Jul 4. 2008	GFF Summit 2008	It's time for the yearly gathering of GFF-readers. Once again we invite you to participate in the Global FlyFisher Summit, which as usual will take place in September in Denmark. The list of participants is already filling up, so read more about the arrangement here and sign up ASAP.
Jul 3. 2008	Bob White	Bob White is probably best known for his illustrations for John Gierach's long running column in the printed magazine Fly Rod and Reel. Here he tells a bit about how it all started, how he works - and that he also guides and has done so through 27 seasons from south to north, home and abroad.
Jun 30. 2008	Small Fry, 2	The smallmouth bass is the headliner of small coolwater venues and that fact is understandable. Micropterus dolomieui bends fly rods and performs top water acrobatics throughout the course of the fishing season, even during the hottest dog days, as long as the human on the other end of the line knows his or her art and craft.
Jun 17. 2008	A Celebration of Salmon Rivers	The cover picture is from Laxa in Ađaldal on Iceland and does strike a note, which suits this book eloquently, being a journey in words and pictures to the world's best salmon waters.
Jun 16. 2008	Small Fry, intro	A treatise on small fish and small waters; an eclectic collection of classic fly pattern variations; a survey of some of the better literature on the art and sport of fly fishing; a portrait of the angler as a young man... All of these descriptions apply to "Small Fry: The Lure of the Little" brought to you by ron P. swegman.
Jun 16. 2008	Hardy DVD	A British company with the fantastic name Trufflepig Films has made an interesting DVD about Hardy
Jun 12. 2008	Shooting head fisher?	If you're a shooting head fisher, GFF might need your help
Jun 11. 2008	Niels' flies	If you thought that silk lines, split cane rods and full dressed salmon flies was something people used a century ago, you may want to read this article about Niels Have who fishes his classical flies on a Phoenix silk line wound on a Hardy Perfect reel mounted on a Highlander two-hand split cane rod.
Jun 11. 2008	ron P. swegman	Author and GFF contributor.
Jun 6. 2008	Small Fry, 1	Perfection is as illusory in fishing as it is in any other aspect of life, yet practice brings with it certain plateaus of near-perfection. Such stages in a fly fisher’s practice provide a good time and opportunity to branch out.
Jun 5. 2008	The Graphite Fly Rod	Now, we all know that winter is the season for building rods.
May 30. 2008	GFF Summit 2008	The planning for this year's Summit is slowly commencing. This is the first official announcement.
May 28. 2008	Jan's Emerger	Another new pattern from Jan Grandal-Johansen, this time a buzzer emerger that fishes well on the reservoirs in the UK. Those hackle tip wings are just killer.
May 18. 2008	Ireland bound	Well, it's a dirty job, you know, but some one has to do all that traveling.
May 17. 2008	Fly Fishing for Bonefish	Dick Brown's bonefishing book is a true classic, and one of the first ones that was recommended to me when I was taking on bonefish for the first time.
May 15. 2008	Two for one	The follow up to the "Early Morning" pocasts - with evening and morning fishing and an extra fishing day thrown in.
May 9. 2008	Early morning	Planning to get up at 3 in the morning to fish
May 8. 2008	Mart's Parachute Ant	During the warmer months of the year, they are just about anywhere... Ants. Martin Westbeek shows an easy way to tie a good ant imitation that will sit well on the surface and hopefully lure trout or grayling.
Apr 29. 2008	King of the moonfish	I managed to squeeze in some real fishing in Florida thanks to GFF contributor Martin Bowers
Apr 13. 2008	Florida bound	It's not a fishing vacation, but there are rods in the luggage!
Apr 6. 2008	Thunder Creeks	These were the first Thunder Creek streamers I have ever tied. A couple weeks ago I was rummaging through a stack of Fly Tyer magazines and tripped across a profile of Keith Fulsher.
Mar 23. 2008	Beautiful video	It might be Swedish, but this trailer shows some extraordinarily beautiful fishing scenes.
Mar 17. 2008	Tobias Renkawitz	Tobias fishes alpine waters throughout the world. His specialties however are the streams and rivers of southern Bavaria and Austria where he spends most of his free time. His scientific curiosity motivates him to continuously test modern tackle materials and innovative designs in fly fishing.
Mar 4. 2008	Spring, snow, stress and flu	Officially spring has started. So of course it started snowing!
Feb 18. 2008	Not really fishing...	A beautiful but cold day in February.
Feb 14. 2008	The Visitors - Day 2	Two days. Two teams. Six fly fishers. Very different and difficult circumstances. Kasper Mühlbach was invited by a Lithuanian and a German team to go fishing with them. Their role was to catch and pose. Kasper's role was to photograph.
Jan 30. 2008	Bloody weather!	Sorry for the politically very incorrect heading, but bloody weather is just what we have right now and have had for a month or two
Jan 29. 2008	The Bad Beginning	German Kai Nolting caught his first sea trout in his second cast for this silver bullet of the ocean. It would take three years before he caught the second one! In this article he thinks back and analyzes why this happened and draws some conclusions that may help others be a bit more lucky.
Jan 25. 2008	365 Flies	Artwork by Jeff Kennedy
Jan 1. 2008	Absolutely last trip!	I managed to squeeze in one more trip before 2008

2007

Date	Title	Body	Image
Dec 30. 2007	Last trip 2007...	Christmas and New Year - it's time for the last trip of the year
Dec 28. 2007	Severely struck	I have a heavy inflamation of cabin fever now -- and winter hasn't even really started yet
Dec 24. 2007	Merry Christmas	Sitting there with the smell of Christmas in the nose and Christmas music in the ears, Martin has been thinking back on the year that passed, and wishes to say Merry Christmas to all the GFF readers with a small gallery from the year that passed.
Dec 13. 2007	White, white, white!	Snowed in
Dec 11. 2007	Grey, grey, grey!	The weather here is awful! Fishing seems far away and work just all too close...
Dec 9. 2007	Fly Fishing for Striped Bass	All it took was one quick skim through this book for me to come up with the theme of my review. "I'm not worthy!" Really. I don't think I am. Wow.
Dec 9. 2007	Ten Flies Simple Ties	I have been interested in woodworking since I was a kid. (Bear with me - this will have some fly fishing relevance soon enough). My Dad made all sorts of
Dec 2. 2007	Cheesman Canyon podcast	Colorado's white winters shouldn't give you the blues! Follow GFF partner Steve Schweitzer as he and his family fish the snowy Cheesman Canyon.
Nov 26. 2007	Salmon River Chill	Steelheading weather
Nov 25. 2007	Salty dreams and glassy shrimp	Chris Edghill writes: "Fascinating to see how they worked together, one would dive in between the rocks and sea grass, completely burying itself and the others just milled around waiting for a shrimp to dart out from it's hiding place where it would be quickly devoured."
Nov 25. 2007	The Patience Game	A good angler has patience
Nov 20. 2007	Good, Bad, and Ugly	Having wrapped my share of thread over the years, I thought it was time to revisit a long held interest of mine - traditional salmon flies. My first attempt years ago was pretty disappointing, and I was hoping my skills had evolved enough for me to take that next step and produce a better result.
Nov 20. 2007	GFF Summit 2007	The GFF Summit 2007 was a great venue, and lots of people had lots of fun and caught lots of fish - and took lots of pictures! GFF partner Martin Joergensen has collected the best from all the participants into a huge photo collage.