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2007

Date	Title	Body	Image
Nov 18. 2007	IFTS 2007	The International Fly Tying Symposium was held on November 17th and 18th in Somerset, New Jersey. As usual, the place was wall-to-wall fly tyers, tying everything from giant saltwater streamers to trout flies. Streamers, salmon flies, you name it - someone was tying it.
Nov 16. 2007	Taimen crazy	The guys behind the fabulous Trout Bum Diaries DVD's are on the move again. This time in Mongolia!
Nov 16. 2007	The Ugliest Flies	Martin has just received the ugliest flies he has ever seen in his life. And no, don't worry they weren't from a potential GFF contributor or a well meaning friend, but commercially tied. They just confirmed what he has always said: home tied flies are best.
Nov 14. 2007	Summit pictures	Several people have asked me about pictures from the GFF Summit in September. They're coming, they're coming...!
Nov 13. 2007	Kai's Green Terror	If one day you should lie on the bank pounding your fists into the sand in frustration over the lack of fish and someone sneaks around the corner offering you a chartreuse coloured fly, perhaps it's German Kai Nolting who brings you the fly that will save your day:
Nov 10. 2007	Catch and release	A few thoughts about killing fish - or letting them live...
Nov 9. 2007	Geir Kjensmo	Living in Elverum in Norway on the banks of the famous grayling river Glomma.
Nov 6. 2007	Your best indicators!	Norwegian Geir Kjensmo has developed a strike indicator with the aim of reducing wind resistance and making easy depth adjustments. As a bonus with these indicators can be fished on very long leaders without the indicator stopping in the top ring of your rod when trying to land a fish.
Oct 30. 2007	Steve's summer	"Best-of" summer edition
Oct 27. 2007	Les Austin	Les Austin is Church of England minister who fishes and writes for GFF
Oct 24. 2007	Balance beam	Les Austin shows you how to construct a simple balance to weigh you fly lines. Using a ruler, a few paperclips and some nuts you can make a precise balance, which can help you determine the AFTM class of all of those fly lines you may have laying around.
Oct 23. 2007	Anticipation	Anticipation and disappointment is a part of fishing - looking forward to the catch that never comes
Oct 23. 2007	Wanna help?	We are (once again) moving server. This time to save money on traffic. Wanna help test the new server?
Oct 20. 2007	A dumb move	Sometimes you make some silly decisions while fishing. We did that yesterday.
Oct 16. 2007	The Pink Pig - Pattegrisen	You have probably heard about and maybe even watched The Pink Panther. If so, you also know the soundtrack. Put that on and take a look to see what a Pink Pig is, and if it has anything in common with the panther or if there is more Miss Piggy in this fly tied for tarpon, bonefish and trout.
Oct 13. 2007	Wanna contribute?	Are your dreaming of having your fly pattern, your fishing pictures, your fly fishing stories, your DIY-project published on the web? Well, here's the chance. GFF is always looking for contributors. And everybody can take part.
Oct 12. 2007	The Danish flies	A bit about the flies that we use for fishing for sea run browns in the salt
Oct 10. 2007	Great little roadshow	I attended a nice little fishing show yesterday
Oct 3. 2007	At long last	I managed to get my hands on a new recorder and immediately made the first podcast in months
Sep 21. 2007	Off to the Summit	In a couple of hours we will be on the road
Sep 13. 2007	New magazine	It's not often that new fly tying magazines see the light of day. Hatches is such a new magazine.
Sep 13. 2007	Hatches facts	A few more facts about the new Hatches magazine
Sep 4. 2007	A Mad Epoxy Tier	Bob Kenly is reknowned for his radically different epoxy tube flies. This article recaps his experience with epoxy - and adds advice on coloring epoxy. If you want some truths about epoxy - and want to witness the death of a couple of myths
Sep 3. 2007	Podcast hiatus	The GFF podcasts have had to take a long break due to broken recording equipment
Sep 2. 2007	The two Rangá's	East and West Rangá are two of Iceland's most productive salmon rivers. GFF Partner Martin Joergensen had the chance to fish both this summer, and thinks back on a productive trip to a beautiful island - and on mud and rain.
Aug 30. 2007	Salmon!	I caught my first Atlantic salmon last week. And the second, and the third and probably also the 15th
Aug 22. 2007	Styles and Patterns	Tube flies - like most other fly types - come in as many shapes and styles as you can imagine. This article merely scratches the surface in an attempt to list some of them. I also touches upon a few aspects of tying one tubes.
Aug 20. 2007	Tube Tying Techniques	Have tube, will tie... but how to go about it? How do you actually manage to tie on a tube? Well, it's much like tying on a hook, just different. Learn to tie on plastic, metal, bottles, compound and rear tubes.
Aug 20. 2007	Tube Fly Tying Tools	More information on tube fly tying tools than you ever thought you needed - from the lowly sewing needle to the full-blown several-hundred-dollar vise, and a lot in between. This article gives you essential knowledge about how to hold a tube - any tube - while tying on it.
Aug 20. 2007	Tube Ressources	Want to venture further into the world of tube flies? This list of material suppliers, tools, vises, DVD's, books and much more will give you links to many more hours of entertaining reading and viewing.
Aug 16. 2007	Tube Style Plate	All kinds of tubes in an overview. Want to get an idea of the richness in the tube fly world? This is one place to look.
Aug 8. 2007	Mullets and cows!	Some fishing day - large mullets and rods broken by cows!
Aug 6. 2007	Convertible tubes	Tube fly tyer Tony Pagliei explains his Convertible Tube Flies - a modular system that combines a set of tube tied front parts and a set of dressed hooks into as many different flies as you can imagine in a versatile, modular system.
Aug 5. 2007	Nice online flyshop	Some fly shops just do better online than others. This one excels.
Aug 1. 2007	Jan's GP	One day, while fishing my favourite water, Barnsfold in Lancashire, which is surrounded on one large side with a good head of pine trees round the reservoir, I noticed quite a few terrestrials being blown on to the water. The trout were going crazy for them.
Jul 31. 2007	Poppers	Tons of fun
Jul 30. 2007	Tube Flies	This is the all-time classical volume on tube flies, and as the title implies it deals with all aspects of tube flies.
Jul 28. 2007	Vaughn Cochran	Read about Florida artist, guide and store owner Vaughn Cochran's history and see samples of his beautiful art, which stretches from pop art over impressionsitic scenes to sculptures. Cochran paints and sculpts fish and scenes from his home waters as well as other tropical waters.
Jul 20. 2007	Great rod tests	Yellowstone Angler is a shop - but they test rods. And they do it well!
Jul 19. 2007	Monster trout!	I watched a great Norwegian DVD yesterday
Jul 17. 2007	Cool, crazy flies	Foam Toads are flies just as I like them!
Jul 15. 2007	Tie a muddler	One evening when I was tying flies with a couple of friends, one of them, Nils, asked me to tie a muddler, just as a demo. I did. Luckily the other friend, Henning, was quick and caught these great pictures of the process.
Jul 14. 2007	Dual Tube Phlyz	In an effort to entice larger striped muggers (stripers) during the spring herring run on Cape Cod when big fish venture back into the shallow estuaries to the herring runs, Pete Gray started tying 8-12+ inches herring flies on double tubes.
Jul 13. 2007	Yoshikazu Fujioka	Ever since GFF partner Martin Joergensen first discovered Yoshikazu Fujioka's Japanese web site, which was amongst the first fishing related pages he ever found on the web, he was fascinated with Fujioka's art. Now GFF can present images from "Trouts and Seasons of the Mountain Streams".
Jul 11. 2007	Tube Styles	If you think that a tube for a tube fly is a cylindrical piece of plastic, then you are in for a surprise. This article will present more tube styles than most fly tyers ever imagined, and probably teach even seasoned tubers a thing or two.
Jul 11. 2007	Tube Basics	This is the first article in the GFF Tube Fly Theme: An introduction to the concept of tube flies and some arguments for using tubes rather than hooks. The article will give you a basic knowledge about tube flies and prepare you for the rest of the theme.
Jul 10. 2007	Server upgrading	You may see irregularities on GFF. We're upgrading.
Jul 8. 2007	Fly tying weather	The summer in Denmark has been a catastrophe. Fishing is out, fly tying is in.
Jul 7. 2007	Russia rules!	There are many more Russian language web pages on fly fishing than you might imagine. And some seem really good.
Jul 6. 2007	Running down the man	Now here's something which you don't see that often: fishing for roosterfish from the beach. No boat, no guide, no poling.