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2006

Date	Title	Body	Image
Oct 14. 2006	Hen Hackle	Awhile back, I received a shipment of hen necks and saddles from Whiting Farms. The saddles struck me with their intense colors and solid web, then necks with their stem length and shortish barbs. These feathers were perfect for the wet flies I was working on.
Oct 10. 2006	GFF Caps	We're considering having another batch made
Oct 9. 2006	Fall Colors	Autumn is my favorite time of year. All summer long I look forward to that first crisp morning where it feels good to put on a fleece shirt even though there is not a cloud in the sky. This past weekend, the weather was about as perfect as one could expect.
Oct 8. 2006	Summit pictures	A new GFF Pix category for pictures from the GFF Summit
Oct 7. 2006	I wish	I whish I could go fishing a bit more often right now. But work and weather prohibits that
Oct 7. 2006	S&L's Lost Flies	Dick Stewart and Bob Leeman's book "Trolling Flies for Trout and Salmon" has inspired fly tyers for the 24 years since it's publication in 1982. Here, finally, we get to see some of the patterns listed in the back of the book that did not have supporting photographs.
Oct 4. 2006	Eyes of Epoxy	Tired of buying eyes, that make your shrimps look great? They are expensive and yet it is hard to find the color you want or the right size. It is not complicated and a good pursuit during winter time. Make your own in all sizes and colors you want.
Oct 3. 2006	Tis the season ...	... for bright outrageous flies
Oct 3. 2006	Master your Fly Casting!
Sep 28. 2006	First Day of Autumn	Well - close enough
Sep 27. 2006	Networking	Streamfishing with good friends
Sep 19. 2006	GFF Summit	The first meeting among GFF fans and contributors took place on the Danish island of Fyn in pursuit of sea trout. People of many nationalities met and fished for a nice September weekend, and had a fabulous fishing with a large number of fish caught.
Sep 8. 2006	Our first mullets	Since the 1960's the mullets have visited the Danish and South Swedish waters from late May to late October. They feed on green weed, are easily spooked and do not pay interest in flies - most of the time. Impossible - but in 2005 Kasper Mühlbach hooked one fish.
Sep 3. 2006	First autumn day	We've had an extremely warm June and July and an extremely wet August. Now it's turning autumn
Sep 2. 2006	Messy Pike Fly	Not one of Martin Joergensen's usual pike flies. For that it is way too complex and has too many tying steps and too many different materials. He doesn't like complex pike flies. "I spend dozens of minutes tying one, and a pike spends seconds shredding it!" he says.
Aug 31. 2006	Measuring the temperature	Is this just for nerds or do you as angler get something out of knowing how accurate you can measure the temperature? For some, knowing the temperature may change the day from a disaster to success.
Aug 30. 2006	TMC Wingburner	Tired of making wings with too many divertions from time to time? See if the new tool from TMC can help you burn the wings perfectly every time or if you still have to fold and cut like an used hair dresser.
Aug 29. 2006	Nothing...	Sometimes trout and grayling sip "nothing" from the surface. You have tried the smallest parachute in your fly box - size 18. What they are taking is much smaller. You look again into your fly box, and right - there is no "Nothing" there.
Aug 19. 2006	Wasp Year	It has been a hot and dry summer in Scandinavia. Wasps have been a plague in many areas. They have been in every apple, every drink and every house. Some of them may have crossed a stream or river, winding up on the surface before continueing the rush. Some of them never left again.
Aug 19. 2006	CDC Mayfly	A small mayfly, which may be (mis)taken for a dun during the sometimes the concentreted hatches on late August and Septemper evenings. It uses a hollow extended body, parachute hackle and wings of cdc stems to float high.
Aug 9. 2006	Not quite	We haven't reached the heights of the US, but still...
Aug 2. 2006	Hot	Hotter .... Hottest
Jul 25. 2006	The Trout Bum Diaries	A fantastic DVD packed with sizzling fly fishing action from Patagonia edited like a snowboard or extreme sports video with hefty music, fast cutting and lots of pace.
Jul 13. 2006	The Plipper	One of the strangest fly-contraptions ever to see daylight from my hands. It's a tube fly. It uses one basic material. It's tied without thread. It's ugly, but it works. It's a popper with a lip - a Plipper.
Jul 6. 2006	The Italian Job	Is it possible to combine a hotel with swimming pool, enjoy the company of your family and yet fish for grayling and trout? Tuscany offers plenty of activities for the ones not fishing. This report is for those who do fish... Read Kasper Mühlbachs story from a hot day in a cold Italian river
Jul 4. 2006	Fly Fishing for Mullet	Mullet Fever The mullet season is here in the Baltic, and this excellent DVD just turns the mullet fever up several degrees.
Jun 30. 2006	Mullet hunting!	This year is mullet year. I intend to catch one...
Jun 30. 2006	Flood	Really bad
Jun 26. 2006	Michael Smith	Michael Smith is a computer security geek living in the Washington, DC area. During the work day, he designs security monitoring systems. By night and weekends, he aspires to catch every fish within 200 miles of "The Beltway".
Jun 24. 2006	GFF Summit 2006	Meet other Global FlyFishers at this fish-in for GFF staff, readers and friends, which will take place in Denmark mid-September. We will mainly aim for coastal fishing, but there will also be stream and lake optoins.
Jun 22. 2006	Night fishing	Going for sea trout in the dark
Jun 21. 2006	Favorite Dad	In Virginia, the rivers are full of crayfish. Author Michael Smith AKA Rybolov went last week to the South Fork of the Shenandoah, and in a meter-square area along the shoreline, there had to be at least 30 crayfish. That may be why Skip's Dad works so well there.
Jun 20. 2006	Casting pictures	If you look in casting books, ads for fly lines or just the odd fly fishing magazine, you will often see some fascinating pictures of casting. Lines forming the most beautiful arcs in the air, clearly illustrating one of the mesmerizing things about fly fishing: the beauty of the cast.
Jun 20. 2006	Macro	Most fly anglers will find that using macro in their photography can be truly thrilling. A lot of what we are interested in is small, and many will appreciate being able to capture small things. This article in the series about fishing photography covers macro photography from an angler's perspective.
Jun 20. 2006	Measure tape II	Jari Wiklund participated in the Danish Fly Casting Championships and finished second. Read his report from the event and his reflections about casting for the sake of casting and (almost) not a word about fishing. He quotes Lefty Kreh who said:
Jun 16. 2006	Jump!	Getting a picture of a jumping fish is not as easy as you may think. You need preparation, skill, timing the right gear and some luck too. Read more about catching fish in the air in this latest article on better fishing photos.
Jun 6. 2006	Mel Krieger	The casting wiz is coming to Europe
Jun 5. 2006	Ad Swier	Dutch Ad Swier is not only a pike fanatic beyond the ordinary but also an artist extraordinaire. His beautiful drawings and paintings have been used in books, calanders and magazines all over the world. We convinced Ad to participate in our series on Fishy Artists.
Jun 5. 2006	Rod Sutterby	Rod Sutterby gave us a taste of his beautiful paintings in the book Atlantic Salmon done in cooperation with Malcolm Greenhalgh. In connection with a new series of articles about "Fishy artists" here on GFF we contacted the artist.
Jun 5. 2006	Diane Michelin	Canadian watercolor artist Diane Michelin has been painting for 15 years. "Basically, in each painting, I try to tell a story that represents the day to day events that fuel our passion." as she says in this article presenting her paintings.
Jun 2. 2006	Joe Kissane	American fly angler and author of "Drag Free Drift".
Jun 2. 2006	Cheap Lazy Bastard	Named the Cheap Lazy Bastard because the originator, Joe Kissane, uses cheap materials whenever possible, takes shortcuts (because he's lazy) and the fly is a bastard – the original pattern mated illicitly with the body of any number of famous nymphs.
Jun 1. 2006	Compose	Vanishing points, golden sections, rule of thirds. Oh yes, image composition is full of mathematics and geometry. Here's how you can apply it all to your fishing photography. You can even test your own pictures' composition.
Jun 1. 2006	Flycasting Faults & Fixes	For those who have seen Mel Krieger - either in real life or on video - this is not new: the man is a one-man theater!
Jun 1. 2006	Miscellanea Emerger	The idea of Joe Kissane's Miscellanea Emerger is based on the idiom of "throwing in everything but the kitchen sink; however, he couldn't justify the length of "everything but the kitchen sink" for a pattern name, and someone told him that the name Kitchen Sink was already used
May 31. 2006	Knots and copyright	Two things that we hold in high esteem on GFF
May 31. 2006	Bumpy GFF	We're cleaning up. That causes errors.
May 28. 2006	Forum down	We've had to take the forum offline for a few days
May 24. 2006	1000 garfish	The long beaked fighter
May 21. 2006	Underexpose	This might sound like a strange piece of advice, but GFF partner Martin Jorgensen writes: "Trust me: you generally want to underexpose your digital images. Almost every single one of them. "