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Buying Saddle Hackle Mar 16. 2021 Shopping What to look for when buying coarser saddle hackle - for saltwater and pike flies, for streamers, for salmon flies or other uses Learn what to look for here	Einars’ Vulgata Emerger Mar 11. 2021 Floating This emerger pattern uses CDC and foam to create the floating thorax that’s typical of emerging insects See the pattern here	Jim Burchette Mar 5. 2021 Bio Jim Burchette resides in Tennessee spending his days fishing, tying flies, building rods, writing fly tying tutorials. Read more here.
Red Tag Revisited Mar 5. 2021 Origins I always loved the Red Tag. I have tied and fished this fly a thousand times, but tend to basically do it the same way every time. Not so anymore! See more here	Red Tag Odyssey Mar 5. 2021 Patterns A bunch of pattern descriptions and materials lists for flies inspired by the Red Tag See them here	Nymphing Without An Indicator Feb 23. 2021 Technique Keeping it simple. Understanding the advantages of nymphing without an indicator and how to do it best. Read more here
Coty Perry Feb 20. 2021 Bio Coty comes from a long line of bass anglers. Read more here	Books that formed me Feb 3. 2021 Litterature ...as a fly tyer and flyfisher, that is. Other books influenced me as a person, but that’s a whole other story. See the some of them here	The Feather Mechanic Jan 10. 2021 Fly design This is a book I have been looking forward to for a while. And it doesn’t disappoint.
A heartfelt thank you! Dec 19. 2020 Money It’s been one and a half years since I started accepting donations to keep the site running, and the support has been overwhelming! Thanks	Chalk and Cheese Dec 14. 2020 French An English flyfisher acquires a house in France - which just happens to have a chalk stream running its property	Fish Scaled Up Dec 8. 2020 Large Danish fly angler and professional photographer Søren Skarby got an idea: to photograph fish like they'd never been photographed before More here
Streamers 365 joins the Global FlyFisher! Nov 28. 2020 Merger The renowned streamer aficionado site streamers365.com is shutting down, but GFF has "inherited" all its fantastic content. Read about it here	Swimming Caddis Pupa Nov 20. 2020 Norwegian This ragged looking caddis pupa from the hands of Norwegian Viggo Larsson will work well on both fast and calm water See how to tie it here	Simple Flies Nov 13. 2020 Three materials Simple is good. Not primitive… simple. And this is another fine book with simple fly patterns.
Motley Flies Nov 12. 2020 Assorted I recently went through my large archive of images. Suddenly I had a whole bunch of fly images. I gathered them into a small gallery. See it here	Nick Mayer Nov 1. 2020 Fishy art Nick Mayer's watercolors are large, colorful and stunningly beautiful. Read about his journey from his childhood sketchbook to becoming a full time artist. The story is told here	Viggo Larsson Oct 20. 2020 Author Norwegian Viggo Larsson lived in Mo i Rana, a town in Helgeland in Northern Norway Read a small bio here
Autumn Fly Sep 7. 2020 Colors A great looking and very catchy Danish sea trout fly, useful all year round in spite of the name. See how to tie it here	Trophy rainbows in Slovakia Sep 4. 2020 Europe Read about Slovakian Andrej Polcic's fascination with the strong rainbow trout in his home rivers Read much more here	Betters' Flies Sep 1. 2020 Dries Fran Betters was a creative tyer and originated several patterns that have become quite famous. Mike Hogue covers four of them in this article. See the original flies here
Einars’ Floating Foam Caddis Pupa May 5. 2020 Burnt A great and high floating caddis fly made with foam as a base material and a very simple and cool technique. See the pattern here	Euro BWOs Revisited Apr 14. 2020 Imitations In our continuous effort to obtain better and more practical mayfly imitations, we discovered a few new and simple solutions. Much more here.	The GFF Interview Mar 13. 2020 In the press GFF gets too little press coverage, so I interviewed myself, and asked myself a number of intelligent questions and offered some equally brilliant answers.
Durable flies: Wrapping thread Mar 3. 2020 Tied to hold The basic technique of wrapping thread over - and under - materials is a key to getting flies that will hold well Read the third chapter here.	Durable flies: Before you tie Feb 27. 2020 Tied to hold One key to durability in flies is to prepare a bit before starting - and choosing the right hook, thread and materials Read the second chapter here.	Durable flies: Why? Feb 27. 2020 Tied to hold How to tie flies that last more than a cast, a trip, a month... heck, even a year. We're starting a series of articles with some tips on tying durable flies – and keeping them intact. Read the first chapter here.

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