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2007
Date Title Body Image

HiVis CDC Midge

A high-visibility orange post and CDC makes this small dry perfect for your 7X tippet. Easy to tie, easy to follow on the water and a perfect choice when the fish are picky. Darryl Lampert from South Africa shows us one of his effective patterns.

The Visitors - Day 1

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.

Opening Day 2007

No fishing. Just scouting.

LeaderCalc Download

Find all the LeaderCalc files here

Skunked

That's why it's called fishing and not catching

Fishing!

After a work stint from hell I went fishing yesterday. And I'm leaving again in a minute.

Wiggle Jig Worm

Maybe you found the previously published tandem rag worm too tandemnised and would be better off with a one-hook-only fly.Then The Wiggling Jigging Worm shown in this article is a good alternative.

Waiting for spring

GFF partner Martin Joergensen has a severe case of cabin fever. Too much work. Too long winter. Too much wind. Too little fishing. He's really looking forward to fishing on mild spring days as he says in this short piece featuring images from last spring and this winter and early spring.

Philadelphia on the Fly

I wish I had more books like this one in my fishing library. I do have a few.

Late Winter

No fishing here for awhile

Winter fishing

Ways to fight the cold and ways to catch fish in freezing water

The Real Rag Worm

Every year in March and April the rag worms emerge from the bottom to secure the next generation. They swim freely in the water, wiggling from one side to the other. Sea gulls feed on the from above and many fish species seem to focus on them from beneath.

Kola on a Budget

Fishing on the Kola Peninsula is usually connected with everything but low price fishing. However, it is still possible to organize a trip for large, golden, Russian brown trout and pay no more than 500 Euros per person including everything.

The move that never came

Another nail in the never-ending server blues coffin

Chris Bladen

South African artist Chris Bladen has specialized in doing bronzes of wildlife - particularly fish. See some of his stunning work and read about the process of shaping and finishing bronze statues of tuna, flying fish, dorados, tigerfish and much more.

And in English

There are plans to translate the DVD's I mentioned

Clear Water

We all love these shots of stunningly clear water. Streams, lakes even the ocean can appear almost ethereal in the way that the bottom is visible in your shot. How do you best shoot these images, which let's the freshness and clarity of the water come out in the final picture?

Sea trout DVD's

A new set of Danish DVD's look extremely interesting

Getting wet - or not

How to avoid getting wet when you fall.

A Passion for Pike

It's nice sometimes to bump into a different book, and Dutch Ad Swier's pike book is different.

Summer in Europe

It's rare to see European fly fishing DVD's an even rarer to see an Eastern European fly fishing DVD. This is one.

Caps status

The caps have been here for a while, but time to finish the project has not

Matt Zudweg

American artist Matt Zudweg creates the most amazing carved and painted works in wood. His portfolio contains signs and carved fish as as well as more three-dimensional pieces such as furniture. Some might not consider this "proper art", but trust us. It is!

Yes, we have wind too!

A storm is sweeping over Europe and we're getting our shere here in Denmark

Beating the crowds

How to avoid stepping on each other's toes when fishing

Derek DeYoung

"As a young kid developing my skills and vision as an artist, I found that I could find no better subject to paint then the big northern pike and largemouth bass that I would often observe cruising the weed lines out in the bayou."
2006
Date Title Body Image

Goosewing Coachman?

Hey - why not?

Cheated!

I was cheated when I bought this book by Valentine Atkinson

Morning fishing

Getting up to see the sun rise

More Jorgensen

A second Poul Jorgensen video online

The Rise

In my ways, fly fishers and fly fishing are a lot like cooks and cooking.

Tigerfish from my Verandah

When you speak to old timers about fishing for tigerfish on the Zambezi River they will tell you of driving along dirt roads, cutting a path through the forest to get access to the river. Lions still running wild, and while they fished elephants chased anglers away from the bank. This is not how it is today.

Asp Parade

Some refer to the asp (Aspius aspius) as the "poor man's tarpon" but according to Hungarian Vilmos Varga it's a quarry onto itself, worth pursuing with a fly rod and a bunch of large streamers, giving you a lot of fun and something new to catch.

The Trout Whisperers

This is the first fly fishing novel I have ever read. In fact, it might be the first one I've ever heard of, so I don't have anything to compare it to.

Nymph-Fishing Rivers and Streams

Rick Hafele should be a well known name to most fly fishers.

Bob Jacklin's Yellowstone Ties

Bob Jacklin is one of a handful of true legends in Fly Tying, and certainly needs no introduction here.

A Passion for Steelhead

Dec Hogan is well known in the fly fishing world as a master of the two-handed fly rod, but until I picked up "A Passion for Steelhead" I did not know much about Dec Hogan the angler.

Server blues... again

If you are Jack, we're the beanstalk: we just keep growing

Poul Jorgensen video

Watch legendary Poul Jorgensen tie in this excellent online video

Thin Blue Lines

Lithuania's 758 rivers, streams, and brooks cut like thin blue lines across the map offering a wealth of fishing opportunities. British Ripley Davenport married a Lithuanian girl and this opened his eyes to the Blatic state's potential.

Honey Shrimp

There are thousands of shrimp patterns in the world, made from the same template. This pattern is a time consumer, but it makes it more interesting tying shrimp flies. The eyes, proportions and legs gives this pattern some kind of magic.

Mel Krieger's Patagonia

The first words spoken on this DVD are: "Every so often in life comes a person that is one step above the rest...", and it continues talking about Mel Krieger - who is the person in question as "No

Chuck-n-Duck

Chuck-n-duck fishing isn't for everyone. Morality aside, it is an effective angling technique, one worth learning if you find occasionally find yourself in a situation where drifting a nymph along the bottom of a distant lie is the difference between catching and casting practice.

GFF Summit 2006

The first Global FlyFisher Conclave

Streams of Consciousness

I will admit right now that I had never heard of Jeff Hull prior to reading his new book "Streams of Consciousness".

Salmon River Skunking

We had anti-fish slime all over us

The Bahamian Rhapsody II

Second part of the Bahamian bonefish joyride as described by The Gang of Four. Join Paul, Tomaz, Ian and Simon on more bonefish fun, a sailboat regatta and lots of good, clean Bahamian fun.

The Bahamian Rhapsody I

Go on a bonefishing adventure and catch bones, tarpon, shark and a wealth of other species in the waters of the Bahamas. Tomaz Modic and Paul Slaney tells the story of fish caught and released, lines and rods broken and lots of fun had.

Martin Westbeek

Tying has become as much a passion for Dutch Martin Westbeek as fishing, and Martin is a regular tyer at shows and fairs in Holland, Germany, Denmark and Britain, and also tied in the USA.

Mart's Bibio

A nice thing about this Bibio is that it's versatile. Play with it, use lighter of heavier hooks, fish it with or without floatant, wrap a thinner or denser hackle, and so on. But make sure you have some Bibios in your flybox spring suddenly is here.

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