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2004

Date	Title	Body	Image
Aug 18. 2004	Hornbergs	An old swap sees the light of day
Aug 14. 2004	The Zuddler	Question: What to you get when you combine elements of a Muddler Minnow and a Zonker? Answer: A Zuddler - an excellent steelhead fly. Joe Emery and John Rode have combined a zonker strip, a muddler head and a cone head into a killer pattern.
Aug 13. 2004	Bamboo Rod Building	Sneak Peak
Aug 9. 2004	Spotless fly	This fly is called Twospotted Fairfly. The two spots in the name comes from the bait, which it is supposed to imitate: the twospotted goby. Gobies are a common kind of fish in the shallow parts of almost all bodies of water.
Aug 9. 2004	Heat	The summer got hot anyway!
Aug 4. 2004	Tooth & Nail	Mark Dysinger presents a pair of pike flies that can take a beating - the Prince of pike and the Poxy Bunny. Large, durable and easy to tie as pike flies should be. Mark has used them extensively for his own Northern pike fishing
Jul 30. 2004	Hillbilly Copper John	The most sought after pattern on GFF's search page is John Barr's more than excellent nymph pattern the Copper John. Martin Joergensen describes his version here: how to tie it and fish it. And adds its hillbilly kin the much simpler Copper Joe.
Jul 28. 2004	Spey Flies: How to Tie Them	Like many fly tyers, I've always had a fascination with spey style flies.
Jul 28. 2004	Tying Small Flies	Ok - this sounds cliché - but it is the absolute truth: but it is the absolute truth: If you flyfish for trout - this book is a must read.
Jul 25. 2004	Tour de France tying	GFF partner Martin Joergensen has let one of his favorite sports events, the bicycling race Tour de France, inspire a way of tying flies. He argues why tying many identical flies can be a good thing - and can be better than tying many different flies.
Jul 14. 2004	Welsh, mate!	A week of fishing in Wales and southern England: reservoir, lake, stream - chalkstream! GFF partner Martin Joergensen has been visiting Welsh Paul Slaney for a week of fun and fishing and meeting other Welsh friends.
Jul 13. 2004	A rainy November	We're having the worst summer in many years
Jul 2. 2004	Leaders&Tippets Q&A
Jul 1. 2004	Stillwater Fly Fishing - Tools & Tactics	I usually skip the intros, acknowledgements, forewords and what-have-you's during my first reading of most books.
Jun 30. 2004	Fishing Online: 1,000 Best Websites	If you had asked me a while back, I'd have answered that a book on web sites is a stillborn idea. End of story.
Jun 29. 2004	Esopus Creek	A little bit of Montana in New York
Jun 28. 2004	Danish gallery	A few photos to give you an idea of how GFF partner Martin Joergensen spent his domestic fishing days in the first part of this year - primarily in pursuit of his beloved sea trout, but also out to get some pike and other species.
Jun 14. 2004	Beaverkill	Spring is Gone
Jun 13. 2004	Spinning	I spin fished! And caught fish!
Jun 11. 2004	Rising Star	The Austin blanks from All Star Rods are quickly gaining a reputation among custom rod builders as being among the best performing blanks on the market, regardless of price. Bob Petti had a chance to build and fish a 4wt recently.
Jun 7. 2004	Re: Envy, envy!	Well, I do have the ocean
Jun 3. 2004	Re: Envy, envy!	There are two closer
Jun 2. 2004	Envy, envy!	I wish that I had a stream in my backyard
Jun 2. 2004	Tying Emergers	Wow. Three hundred and forty four pages of emergers. Leeson and Schollmeyer have done it again.
Jun 2. 2004	Two Centuries of Soft-Hackled Flies	This is the book that soft hackled aficionados have been waiting years to see.
Jun 1. 2004	Small Streams	Found a gem
Jun 1. 2004	Oh yeah - the fish	As pretty as the stream itself
May 26. 2004	Gurgler Mania	Bass love 'em
May 23. 2004	Three in Norway, by two of them	What an enchanting and entertaining book! I cannot recommend it enough.
May 23. 2004	Salmon, Trout & Charr Of The World	Two things attracted me by this book: the pictures and the price.
May 22. 2004	Pictures in books	I want more and better pictures in books
May 19. 2004	Little Devil	An article on the Welsh classic The Diawl Bach and on the intriguing and intimidating concept of fishing a team of three flies on a very long leader. GFF partner Martin Joergensen has been to Wales and this is the first article from that trip.
May 18. 2004	Never again!	The world of fishing stocked lakes
Apr 19. 2004	Going deep	This could be an article in a series called "Nymphing From Top-to-Bottom: The Untold Secrets". This article covers ways to get a fly to fish deep in the water by adding weight or using different lines and casting or mending techniques.
Apr 12. 2004	Strike Indicator Scientology	Strike indicators aren't just flyfishing bobbers; they do much more, if you know the secrets! Learn how to make and use them from GFF partner Steve Schweitzer.
Apr 8. 2004	Crummy Work Days and Flytying	Get Paid to tie flies...here's how I did it...
Apr 8. 2004	Crummy Work Days and Flytying	Get Paid to tie flies...here's how I did it...
Apr 2. 2004	Opening Day	A cold one
Mar 30. 2004	Last Minute Panic	Every year it's the same
Mar 18. 2004	Tears for Bornholm	Never good to hear of a fishing trip I will miss
Mar 17. 2004	Bornholm	Martin Joergensen's annual trip to the Danish island Bornholm is coming up. This year without GFF partner Steve Schweitzer by his side. Steve here tells the story of the 2002 trip, where they both indulged in fish, good food and friendship for a week.
Mar 17. 2004	Preparing for Bornholm	The annual Bornholm highlight is getting closer
Mar 16. 2004	A five sea trout day	Spring came - just for an hour, at least
Mar 11. 2004	Spring around the corner	Winter is slowly loosing its grip here in Denmark
Mar 5. 2004	More MicroBlunder Musings	Another useless microstink feature
Mar 4. 2004	Multiplexed Microsoft Mayhem	Why must meandering thru Microsoft apps be maming?
Feb 29. 2004	First fish	This year's first fish has been hooked
Feb 27. 2004	Danish Pastry Fly	This fly recently changed its name from The Copper Camel to The Danish Pastry Fly for reasons that are revealed in the article. It's an efficient and simple pattern for sea trout, but is very likely to be just as able to catch bass, bonefish and many other species.
Feb 22. 2004	O'io Boy'o!	The flats of Oahu in Hawai'i, harbor some of the largest bonefish in the world... although, Hawai'i isn't your typical bonefishing destination. Read why, how to do it and what you will catch
Feb 19. 2004	Bumpy Mexico	GFF partner Martin Joergensen took on the Mexican bonefish during a two week stay in Punta Allen north of Ascension Bay last winter. It wound up being a trip that was bumpy in more than one sense - both on and off the water. But with plenty bonefish.