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2018

Date	Title	Body	Image
Nov 17. 2018	DIY Vacuum Rod Holder	You can buy ready-made rod holders for your car, but you can also go the DIY way and get some excellent holders for a very fair price.
Nov 6. 2018	John Gierach's Little Brown Trout Bucktail	"The solution to any problem -- work, love, money, whatever -- is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be." -John...
Nov 6. 2018	Book Alert - Herbert L. Welch: Black Ghosts and Art in a Maine Guide's Wilderness	The long-awaited book from authors Graydon Hilyard and Leslie Hilyard has been announced and is ready to hit shelves on December 1st, 2018. "Herbert...
Sep 15. 2018	No tsundoku here!	Stacking up fishing books and never reading them… not here!
Sep 15. 2018	ACA's Beginner's Guide to Fly Casting	A true beginner's guide to casting, providing basic knowledge of gear and casting, advice on how to get better, and help in troubleshooting.
Sep 13. 2018	When real life takes over	The publishing pace on GFF has almost come to a standstill. Real life has stuck its ugly head in the door and brought paid work
Aug 21. 2018	Backwoods Brook Trout	"I spent most of 1949 in utero, gradually gaining awareness that something truly good awaited once I left the waters of my beginnings." A review of Frederick Prince's book.
Aug 9. 2018	Reel seats and reel feet	Why is it that some reels simply don't fit some rods? There is a standard of course... but not all manufacturers seem to follow it.
Jul 17. 2018	Roland Henrion	Recently Belgian Roland Henrion started focusing more on his art, and that made him a candidate for our fishy artists series.
Jul 14. 2018	My Erna	A well proven Icelandic hair winged salmon fly, responsible for catching many large salmon
Jun 27. 2018	Petitjean CDC	A massive book, solely on CDC-feathers, -flies and -tying techniques by Swiss CDC master Marc Petitjean.
Jun 17. 2018	Wiggling Frog Legs	Frogs are high on the menu for many fish If there's one thing that gives away a swimming frog, it's the legs!
Jun 12. 2018	Three strikes...	No, not strikes from fish, but strikes from spammers and wannabe guest posters who try to get their spam published on GFF. Three strikes and they get this.
Jun 11. 2018	Why I hate complexity	It seems to me that a lot of software problems are solved by adding complexity. It's a bad solution. I hate it.
May 21. 2018	The Feather Thief	A fascinating "true crime" story that tells about the theft of skins from protected bird from a natural history museum in the UK with the purpose of using them for fly tying
May 13. 2018	Dragons and Damsels	Odonata is the Latin name for the order of dragonflies and damselflies. This article is about them.
May 6. 2018	Do you like this site?	If you do, you might consider supporting it in a slightly more substantial way. It's been free for decades... literally... but could use a little saltwater injection. Now accepting PayPal...
Apr 29. 2018	Not a single cast	I just returned from a week-long fishing trip with my wife and a bunch of good friends – and I didn’t make a single cast.
Apr 16. 2018	Green storage	My fly tying room and office is slowly taking shape - and color. A set of shelves and small chests were painted green.
Apr 16. 2018	Farkas' doubles	I get regular mails from Italian master salmon fly tyer Stefano Farkas. A couple of his recent flies were special.
Apr 4. 2018	Caught between a book and a hard place	I was involuntarily involved in a disagreement between two authors and their publisher, and have now placed myself in a tight spot
Mar 31. 2018	Limay in November	A failed autumn trip to the Patagonia river Limay sparked a spring trip this last November
Mar 14. 2018	Optic Flies	With names that sounded fresh, in-your-face and downright sexy, the Optic Fly series entered the stage like a warm summer wind in the 1960’s cold war era.
Mar 14. 2018	ABU Optic Flies	A small book written by Danish Michael Jensen about Swedish ABU's renowned series of streamers from the 60's, known as the Optic Flies.
Mar 7. 2018	Liggett Special Bucktail	I first saw this fly pattern years ago while reading an article on GlobalFlyFisher written by Mike Martinek. Mike stated that he preferred to fish the...
Mar 2. 2018	Tom’s bobbin holders	Get ready to meet the “Hummingbird”, a very different bobbin holder designed and made by Dutch Tom Biesot
Feb 28. 2018	Martinek, Warner and Leight Flies on Auction	This is another post for those of you hunting for some new streamers for your collection. We found a few nice specimens from Mike Martinek, Jim...
Feb 21. 2018	Drupal, YouTube and Vimeo integration	The GFF video section uses a few neat cowboy tricks to smoothly integrate videos from YouTube and Vimeo into the site
Feb 19. 2018	The new GFF HQ	We have moved from an apartment to a house, and GFF is getting a larger and better equipped main office.
Feb 19. 2018	Homage to Carrie Stevens	Italian master fly tyer Stefano Farkas has tied a Carrie Stevens streamer in the style of his full dressed salmon flies.
Feb 9. 2018	Designing Poppers, Sliders & Divers	This book raises the bar for warm water fly rod lure making books. Elmer Meiler reviews Steve Schweitzer's book.
Feb 7. 2018	DIY dubbing brush maker	Bretislav has a little machine in his collection of fly-tying tools. It was made by his father about 20 years back.
Feb 4. 2018	Childers	Italian Stefano Farkas continues to supply the most astonishing full dressed salmon flies.
Jan 21. 2018	That book thing, again...	Some books I just order, no hesitation. But when prices go above 200 US$ and postage follows close behind, my finger hesitates a bit over the buy button
Jan 18. 2018	Deep and slow	The secret behind catching Scottish spring salmon!
Jan 7. 2018	Marabou Smelt (Dick Stewart)	The Marabou Smelt is a fly pattern created by author Dick Stewart. This pattern can be found on page 107 of Trolling Flies for Trout & Salmon...
Jan 4. 2018	The decline of GFF	No, don't worry! It's not that GFF is disappearing, but the number of visitors isn’t what it used to be.

2017

Date	Title	Body	Image
Dec 25. 2017	Meade's crazy flies	Australian Rob Meade's flies are totally crazy contraptions using foam in strange shapes, odd constructions, rubber legs, large eyes and lots of color. Flies just after my heart!
Dec 22. 2017	Merry Christmas!	Christmas is here... just a few days until you can unwrap your presents. But you get one from GFF right now!
Dec 18. 2017	Freshwater Life	This book gives you the opportunity to make a connection with aquatic animals. You can watch these images over and over again. It is also full of information in the texts and pictures.
Dec 10. 2017	I bought myself a book… eh, two books	Due to some odd circumstances, I ordered myself two copies of the same book.
Dec 10. 2017	Nymphenfischen	My heart beats for specialty books rather than general ones, and a large book solely on nymphing is definitely something that stirs my interest. Even a German language one.
Dec 9. 2017	A Year in the Life	Jonathan Tomlinson's video "A Year in the Life" is an hour of mesmerizing fish porn. Or should I call it fish erotica? That sounds a bit more sophisticated
Dec 7. 2017	Jason Bordash	US artist Jason Bordash works as an electrical designer, but paints beautiful fishing scenes, fish and flies in his spare time. We asked him a few questions.
Dec 6. 2017	Christmas is closing in!	You probably noticed. Dutch Zwarte Piet is afoot, Danes drink glögg and the Germans go to Weihnachtsmarkt. Time to buy some presents for your favorite fly fisher!
Dec 2. 2017	Sierra Nets	A Q&A session with California based landing net maker Greg Madrigal from Sierra Nets
Nov 29. 2017	How I Make a Leather Flybox	In this article Romanian leather artist Remus Stanescu takes you through the process of making one of his beautiful leather fly boxes.
Nov 28. 2017	Remus Stanescu	Contributor Remus Stanescu lives, fishes and works in Transylvania, Romania
Nov 23. 2017	The crystal clear rivers	Andrej Polcic shares his exploration of the crystal clear mountain rivers of Slovakia
Nov 20. 2017	More Flies by Stefano Farkas	Italian fly tyer Stefano Farkas regularly sends me pictures of his beautiful, full dressed salmon flies. Here's another batch from him.