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This page simply lists all content chronologically, with the newest first. Use the pager in the bottom to navigate through quite a lot of articles, reviews, blog posts and much more.
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2005
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Classic Clouser

Tied my first Clouser Minnows ever a few minutes ago. What a fly!

Clouser hook

A great tip for Clousers

Lamiglas

This past season, I had the pleasure of fishing rods built from two blanks from Lamiglas, the XMG50 and the "Blue Ridge". These two blanks are Ying and Yang, fast and slow, high modulus graphite and fiberglass. As different as can be.

Sören and Sara

Senior pike fisher Sören Essebo invited junior pike fisher Kasper Mühlbach for a day of... pike fishing at the South Swedish coast. Besides fishing they talked about Sörens web site, publishing on the internet and why he has fallen in love with White Pike Sara.

EZ quintet

EZ flies - that's what they are in the genuine all-American-marketing-way. Five classics with their patterns modified to be fairly easy and fast to tie - not least because of the simple body construction using braided tubing.

Amazing flies

Irish Open Flytying Championship has delivered some beautifult flies

Fly Fishing Warm Water Rivers

Before we get to the review, I have to confess that I am a bit biased, as I've known Joe for a few years through his involvement in a fly tying email group of which we're both members.

Fill-the-box

"I have severely neglected my day-to-day flybox for more than a year" writes GFF partner Martin Joergensen. Now he sets out to fill a box with hundreds of sea trout flies in preparation for the coming spring. He envisions rows of uniform and neatly arranged flies.

The Hatch

Interesting video about salmon fly hatch

Fishing Limestone Streams

Charles Meck is no stranger to fly fisherman, at least those in the mid-Atlantic states, as he's been writing books and articles about fly fishing since the 1960's.

Fly Fishing for Bass

There are a few things you can count on when you read a book by Lefty Kreh - good storytelling, just-the-facts brevity, a conversation tone to the writing, and lots of practical no-nonsense advice.

The Year of the Angler and the Year of the Trout

When I got this book to review, I was just about to leave for a week's vacation in Maine.

Bassin with a Fly Rod

When I first read "Bassin' with a Fly Rod", I knew that I had found a book to my liking when I read this passage:

Bass gizmos

Those bass guys sure know how to have fun!

Vltava-Dobrá

Kasper Mühlbach - GFF's eternal grayling hunter - takes on another challenge from the Lady of the Stream. This time he travels to the Czech Republic to learn from former Czech National Fly Fishing Team member Jan Siman. Does the Eastern European grayling differ from the Swedish one?

Nerd stuff

I sometimes get questions about the system and technology behind GFF

Great mullet video

I spent this evening drinking coffee and watching DVDs with some friends

David Allerton

David has contributed to the articles on several occasions. Look at:

Essential Patterns with Oliver Edwards

With the release of "Essential Patterns", Oliver Edwards and his production crew have raised the bar yet again for fly tying instructional video.

Smallmouth Jump

Mark Dysinger has been chasing smallmouth bass with the flyrod for many years, and during that time he's come across some surprisingly difficult fish. Super clear water and high fishing pressure can make these bass as fussy and easily spooked as any educated trout.

Don't freeze

GFF partner and avid winter fisher Martin Joergensen tries to convince you why breathable waders are good for winter fishing and why you may freeze in your trusty neoprenes. It has to do with sweat and moisture... or the lack of same.

Bow River Bugger

Al Grombacher has shared with us one of the most effective patterns for the Bow River in Alberta, Canada, famed for its excellent fishing for rainbow trout.

The Art of the Atlantic Salmon Fly

Reviewing a book originally from 1989 might seem a bit silly. Let me assure you it isn't! Reviewing a book written by J. D. Bates might seem a bit intimidating. Let me assure you it is!

Spey Flies and Dee Flies

I have always been fascinated by Spey and Dee flies.

Hairwing & Tube Flies for Salmon

With this book Chris Mann has worked his way through yet another pile of flies sent to him from all over the world.

Salmon flies - Their Character, Style and Dressing

To review this book is like kicking in an open door - a door, which was opened a few decades ago.

Head Shots

Some fine trout, dressed to the nines.

Big Fish, Little Fish

I like all fish

Pike Landing

Large pike can be quite intimidating, almost scary to land. They have teeth everywhere and the danger of being badly cut is very present. But there is a grip, which is safe. By properly lifting the fish in its jaw, both you and the pike stay unharmed.

Pike rods

Danish Scierra are introducing some great looking rods

Mini Streamers

How small can you tie a streamer and still call it a streamer? The folks on the streamers@ mailing list decided to challenge themselves to a swap of streamers no larger than a size 12. The results were move interesting.

Pike!

Pike in the salt is something else

Klarälven

Four happy, Danish boys go hunting for grayling in the southernmost Swedish river, which holds a decent number of this beautiful fish. Author Kasper Mühlbach joins GFF partner Martin Joergensen and their common friends Jens Groenlund and Asger Olesen on the journey.

Sexyloops

Something else indeed!

Four stream rods

This is not a review as such, but then again. GFF partner Martin Joergensen got the chance to play with four great and very different rods from ECHO, Harvest, Partridge and Scierra. All are light stream rods, but they still display large differences when fished side by side.

Re: Fantastic weeks!

Wow. Martin - congrats on the fine fish.

Fantastic weeks!

These past couple of weeks have been fantastic on the Danish coast

Copies!

GFF is heavily copied all over the world - and not in the good way!

Trout Grass

This is a fantastic journey! And in more than one sense.

Bonefish biology

This small treatise will introduce you to the parts of its natural history, which are most interesting to fly anglers. Learn about the bonefish habitats, their diet and what other things might help you get a better picture of the ghost of the flats.

Boney Flies

Crazy Charlie, Bonefish Bitters, Bonefish CDC&Elk and more. Some of these bonefish flies are well known, some are close to unknown, but they can all catch bonefish. Martin Joergensen has selected a few and tells the story.

Do's and dont's

GFF partner Martin Joergensen offers a few pieces of advice that might bring you nearer the bonefishing Nirvana. You will find traditional advice like "wear sunscreen" and "learn to cast", but also some less ordinary points such as "Don't listen to the guide".

Life is good

Now, this is something! Norwegian Christian Figenschou and his friends Dariusz and Julem's fabulous pictures of bonefishing and their attitude towards fishing fit perfectly into the GFF bonefishing theme.

Fireplace bonefishing

Global FlyFisher partner Martin Joergensen has gone through his shelves and dug out the best books and DVD's on bonefishing he could find.

The ghost and I

This is a very personal view of bonefishing from a rookie in the game - namely Global FlyFisher partner Martin Joergensen. He has discovered that both he and Lefty Kreh likes bonefishing best, and tries to unveil why they both share this passion with so many others.

Bonefish Theme

This is a first in the Global Flyfisher's history: a theme! This theme is about bonefishing, the hunt for one of the most sought after fish in the world: Albula Vulpes, the white fox or the ghost of the flats.

In Search of a Rising Tide

It's short, but it's very good, this unorthodox DVD about bonefishing.

Bonefishing the Flats with Craig Mathews

Even though I do have a few remarks regarding this DVD, it is certainly one of the better ones I have watched lately, and definitely the best how-to DVD I have seen on bonefishing.

Re: Do You?

Yes!!!

Heads

This is the end that counts to to most anglers: where the mouth is and where the fly is supposed to go. All these fish opened theirs over a hook, and they paid for it with a portrait. Pictures of fish from the very small sand eel to the very large steelhead.

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