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1996

Date	Title	Body	Image
Jun 1. 1996	Grey Duster	Later my friend and I ran into problems on our favorite stream, when the tiny Caënis dayflies hatched. The trout sipped the fresh emerged flies all over the water - but they rejected all the flies we offered. Then we found a note in a magazine saying, that the fly with the peculiar name - the 'Grey Duster' - should be the right medicine, if it was tied with a parachute hackle.
Jun 1. 1996	Two flies in one	The small dipterae - Simulium sp. - has always been a problem - they are tiny and shows up in fantastic numbers. Why should a trout prefer our imitations when there are so many all over the water?
Jun 1. 1996	Fly tyers gallery	These are all tyers. Some of them were caught at the Danish Fly Festival and some at Fly Fair - Europe's largest outdoors fly show wich takes place every second year in Zwolle in Holland. Here are some pictures from the '96 event. If you want to see more international tyers have a look at the pictures from The International Fly Tyers Symposium 1996.
May 31. 1996	May 31st 1996	It is a strange spring
May 30. 1996	Fly Fair 1996	The following report was sent to the flyfishing mailing lists - FlyFish@ and Euro-Flyfish@ - after my return from a most enjoyable Fly Fair in Holland May 1996.
May 20. 1996	Roman Moser, Austria
May 15. 1996	A day of fun and fly tying	Once again I've had the distinct pleasure of being together with fly tyers of the absolute elite. Henrik Strandgaard - a reputed Danish salmon fly tyer - had again set up a fine arrangement featuring two US tyers: Steven Fernandez and Marvin Nolte. Both ought to be well known, but let me introduce them to you anyway:
May 13. 1996	May 13th 1996	That #?%&/# wind!
May 12. 1996	A.K.'s Fly Box	A.K. should be fairly well known. The term 'production fly tyer' is very suitable for him. He counts his flies in hundreds of dozens and has before demonstrated his ability to write books about this kind of tying. In this book he reveals the contents of his own fly boxes. They contain a lot of brown trout flies - no salt water patterns, no poppers, no bass flies. There are a few hoppers and ants, but apart from that it's mayflies, stoneflies a caddises.
Apr 29. 1996	April 29th 1996	The garfish are here
Apr 26. 1996	April 26th 1996	Fish early and late
Apr 22. 1996	Making a wading staff	Here's the recipe for making a 'Totally Cool' Wading Stick - Danish Kind. What most people call a wading staff.
Apr 20. 1996	Juro Mukai's shooting head setup	Juro Mukai is a old aquaintance from the Flyfish@ mailing list. I had the pleasure of fishing with him in the Seattle area, and was intrigued by the 'modular' line setup that he uses on his two hand spey rod for steelhead.
Apr 20. 1996	April 20th 1996	Whadda short spring that was
Apr 17. 1996	Linked flies	The flies on this page all have one thing in common: they have a linked body. Many of us strive to add life to our flies - the sense of something living. This can be done by using soft materials or adding long tails like on zonkers. These are all fine techniques that work well. But something urged me to try something different.
Apr 4. 1996	Start of April 1996	Denmark is still a cold place
Apr 1. 1996	Twined or furled leaders	How to make a great furled leader using the ancient method of rope making.
Mar 20. 1996	Float Tube Magic - A Fly Fishing Escape	This time it's float tubing. It's a basic book, that treats the subject from the bottom: considerations before buying, selecting a tube and other equipment, getting 'on board', strategies and much more. On top of that comes a more general section on trout food and flies.
Mar 14. 1996	Squirrel zonker	I used to hate zonkers; those pre cut rabbit strips were like hell to tie with: too thick skin, too long hair, too wide strips. I stopped tying them until someone told me how to cut my own strips.
Mar 1. 1996	Winter fishing	Winter pictures are from the island of Als.
Feb 1. 1996	Tube Flies - A Tying, Fishing & Historical Guide	The authors have added immeasurably to the fly tier's repertoire with this wonderful volume dedicated to the tube fly.
Jan 26. 1996	Francois le Ny	The french pediatrician Jean-Paul Pequegnot has written a book about french flies - "Repertoire des Mouches Artificielles Français". 1975. It is translated to english in the last years. He gives among others also descriptions of flies from Britanny.
Jan 20. 1996	The Mymph	This has been my most successfull trout fly in the autumn of 1995. I've caught most of my trout from a float tube, and I believe that one of the keys to the success of this fly is the fact that it's weighted. This and the fact that it's actually very nymph like tells me that it would probably act fine as a stonefly nymph imitation, and this has given the fly it's name 'My nymph' or 'Mymph' for short.
Jan 20. 1996	Glitter Shrimp	A killer fly in the right hands on a cold winter day. A very simple shrimp pattern for Danish sea trout and many other targets.
Jan 18. 1996	The Essence of Flycasting	This book is very stylish, kind of mellow in the visual tone and held in beautiful B/W. People who have met Krieger (or seen his videos) will know that he is not excactly B/W. On the opposite: he's a colorfull, enthusiastic, noisy, acting-all-kinds-of-roles type of instructor.
Jan 12. 1996	Mysid	Wanna tie a mysis? This might be the pattern... Small, easy to tie. It can even stand in for a small dragonfly nymph.
Jan 10. 1996	C&R of salmon	This is some advice that Backwater Bob posted on the FLYFISH@ ListServer. It's good and sound advice for salmon fishers as well as anybody else that wants to C&R fish.
Jan 1. 1996	Bas Verschoor	It's a great honor to have Bas a s a writer here. For as it will be obvious from his biography below, he is a very respected and active fly tyer on the international scene. Bas ties flies professionally, although he most certainly cannot make a living from it.
Jan 1. 1996	CDC&Elk	Hans Weilenmann's classical contemporary sedge fly.
Jan 1. 1996	Pardon my Backcast	WARNING: I enjoy good humor. If you don't care for silly wit and prose, you won't agree with my review. Stop here and read something more serious on GFF.

1995

Date	Title	Body	Image
Dec 28. 1995	Stacking material	When stacking materials it is important to consider it as consisting of more than just one process. There are several steps involved: material selection, cleaning and preparing, selecting the right tool and performing the stacking process itself.
Dec 14. 1995	Small muddler	Muddlers are a type of flies that I love to tie and fish with. And they also catch fish. In my small story from the Danish summer night, you can read what this small modest muddler can do. A fly I had a fair success with
Dec 1. 1995	Surf zone fishing	We at GFF wish that more people made books like this: small and affordable and right on the target. Ken Hanley's small classic has been reprinted
Nov 1. 1995	US North West fishing	These are some pictures from my visit to the North West - Seattle, where I had the pleasure of fishing with some very nice people in the early winter 1995.
Oct 14. 1995	Magnus Classic	A great Danish fly for sea trout - The classic Magnus
Sep 10. 1995	Full Metal Jacket Nutria Muddler, variations	This fly is in a way my 'signature fly'. It's a beautiful fly (in my own humble opinion), and even though it's heavy - very heavy, actually - it's a good fishing fly, that dives deep and overcomes current and turbulence.
Aug 20. 1995	Aquatic trout foods	The book is actually quite systematic. Dave Whitlock deals with all important fresh water trout food species; from mayflies, caddisflies and stoneflies to fish, scuds, shrimps and leeches. Every group is descibed in detail: life cycle, which is very important to understand -- especially when it comes to insects, morphology, habitus and how to imitate them.
Jun 26. 1995	How to dress salmon flies	This is a very quotable book. I like short, concentrated books, that don't waste too much time on repetitions and smalltalk. Mr. Pryce-Tannatt is a writer just after my heart, when it comes to that. He does not beat around the bush and talk in length about things that don't concern the subject.
Jun 23. 1995	Striper Moon	This small book has made me a striper fan. The subtitle gave me the first hint that this would be interesting
Jun 13. 1995	Sepp Fuchs' Gallery	Dutch fly fisher and tyer Sepp Fuch's pictures.
Jun 12. 1995	One summer night	Saturday evening was as Saturday evenings often are in the summer: kids playing outside, tidying the kitchen, having a cup of coffee and just looking out the window. Outside my kitchen window, I can see my 'wind tree'. My guess is that all Danish coast fishermen have a wind tree or something like it: a flag, a chimney -- something to judge the wind from. Force and direction.
Jun 1. 1995	Sea trout	The key to success in the pursuit of sea trout in salt water on the coasts of the Baltic Sea is understanding some important aspects of the trout's behavior in respect to the seasonal changes. The sea trout i salt water can't be fished the same way all year. Some key factors here are water temperatures, currents, the wind and the trout's migratory patterns.
Jun 1. 1995	Species to catch in Denmark	Part of this section is the manuscript for chapter in a book on fly fishing in salt water in Northern Europe. The subjects covered here are also covered elsewhere on this web site. Each page contains links to all relevant pages on The Global Fly Fisher.
Jun 1. 1995	Garfish	The garfish is a very common guest in many Northern European countries. It is normally a pelagic fish whose migration pattern is not known in detail. But one thing is for shure: these fish will return to spawn in shallow and rich areas along the coasts many places in Europe.
Jun 1. 1995	Cod	Cod and similar species are a much underrated quarry for the fly fisherman. In places where it's very common like Denmark and Norway, they are even sometimes considered an annoying disturbance in the much 'finer' fishing for sea trout. But cod can be an excellent game for the fisher whose gear and mind is tuned in on it, and the abundance and size of fish can easily justify a more focused fishing for cod.
May 23. 1995	The World's Best Trout Flies	This is a book that I bought when attending a very well set up fly tying arrangement here in Denmark just after new year, and already at the arrangement I met two of the tyers featured in the book: Oliver Edwards (UK) and Mogens Espersen (Denmark).
May 12. 1995	The landing net for the coast	I often wonder what US fishers do if they stumble on a really big fish that they want to net. I'm aware that many fishers land many - if not all - of their fish with the hands. I use the hands for all but the largest. But still it must happen that fishers strike on a brown trout or rainbow is much too big for these small snow shoe nets.
May 10. 1995	Production Fly Tying	The fascinating thing about AK is, that you start believing him and that many of his methods make sense. His approach is very personal, and he doesn't try to hide this.
May 1. 1995	Catch & Release	The fish in the Danish sea are in no way endangered by rodfishers. Nets are another story, though, but still fish are abundant, and therefore we Danes almost always bring home fish. Small fish are illegal to catch, but many fishermen release a lot of their catch. But no-kill and pure C&R is not common on the Danish shores.
May 1. 1995	This is Denmark	Denmark is a small country; the size of Pensylvania, and can by no means be compared to the other and far larger Scandinavian countries; Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland.