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2008

Date	Title	Body	Image
Nov 2. 2008	Très Bien	This is another bright tube fly for clear water designed by Danish fly tyer Ken Bonde Larsen. And another one that uses a cone to add weight to the front of the fly. And another one, where the metal cone can be replaced by a common head or a plastic cone.
Nov 2. 2008	The Overtaker	A small black tube fly inspired by the classical Undertaker and flies like the Green Butt. This small fly shows that tube flies do not have to be large. It's petite, it's black and it's sexy with a small hotspot.
Nov 2. 2008	The Dirty White	We continue our series of tube flies tied in the Scandinavian style. This fly is another subdued yellow, white and gray fly, well suited for bright light and clear water. It uses a mallard hackle to create a nice, closed shape.
Oct 26. 2008	Chinese White	A bright tube fly for salmon in clear water created by Danish Ken Bonde Larsen. Tied in the Scandinavian style with a large and soft hair wing made of several layers. Easy to tie and impressive both in and out of the water.
Oct 25. 2008	Staring Sunray Shadow	Ray Brook's classic the Sunray Shadow can hardly be outdone by any variation of this simple yet very efficient fly. But some people still like to add little details to killer patterns. This version of the Sunray has a body and eyes.
Oct 25. 2008	Bon A(d)venture - Day 2	Follow Kasper Mühlbach on his second day on Bon Aventure. A day of which he did not expect the big catches but the day turned out to as good as the first. Clear water, white tails, ospreys and
Oct 25. 2008	Bon Aventure flies	Do you know what flies to tie for clear water and how to tie them? Follow the Danish flytier Ken Bonde Larsen carefully tie some attractive and yet not too visible flies for the Canadian salmon. Tubes are his favorite and some with new plastic discs.
Oct 23. 2008	GFF Summit 2008	Swedish Frederik Odelberg thinks back on this year's Global FlyFisher Summit in Denmark, and has penned down a few thoughts on the venue. Read his story and see tonnes of pictures from the successful meeting amongst happy anglers.
Oct 20. 2008	Small Fry, 10	"Did you get a brownie?" The voice the author heard was young; a girl’s voice that floated gracefully over the soft, almost melodic, water tumble of the creek. He was releasing a small brown trout that had patiently watched his patterns float by for close to half an hour.
Oct 6. 2008	Small Fry, 9	Knots have challenged author ron P. swegman all his life. When he was a preschool boy, he demanded his mom buy him “buckle shoes” because he just could not get the hang of shoestrings.He reflects further over knots in this latest chapter of the online novel "Small Fry".
Oct 4. 2008	Charlie Craven's Basic Fly Tying	Charlie Craven is no stranger to anyone who hangs out in the online fly tying bulletin boards, so the announcement of his new fly tying book was warmly received with a sense of keen anticipation.
Oct 2. 2008	Partly moved	GFF is now spanning the Atlantic
Sep 22. 2008	Small Fry, 8	Light gear is best for little fish for two big reasons: first, light or ultralight outfits provide the most sport by giving these fish their best fighting chance; second, lighter outfits make fly fishing possible in unforgiving casting situations that leave little room for human error.
Sep 21. 2008	Moving... again	Yes, it's time to get GFF to a new and better server
Sep 15. 2008	It's over!	The GFF Summit 2008 is over. And it was great!
Sep 8. 2008	Small Fry, 7	More than a sport fish, the brook trout has, throughout its range, become a barometer for the environmental health of North American rivers and streams. It seems fitting in this context that a little fish plays such a big role.
Sep 7. 2008	Muskie on the Fly	We did a review of this book once before, but since two o
Sep 7. 2008	LaFontaine's Legacy	It's hard to believe it's been over six years since Gary LaFontaine passed away from ALS. Among fly fishers and fly tyers, he was well known but I don't believe well understood.
Sep 7. 2008	Trout Flies for the 21st Century	I think the subtitle says it all : "Over 200 Essential Patterns that Catch Fish Anywhere, Anytime". Allrighty then!
Sep 7. 2008	Fly Fishing and Fly Tying II	You know - the internet is a wonderful thing. (As if you don't know that already).
Sep 3. 2008	Patagonia on a Budget	A tour de Budget to one of the world's roughest and most famous parts when it comes to steak, emus, sea trout and the biggest pumped-up rainbows you can imagine. Follow the Lithuanian gung-ho team from planning to river fishing to Jurrasic Lake.
Aug 30. 2008	Mullet? Not!	A nice day at the beach in pursuit of mullet and sea trout.
Aug 25. 2008	Small Fry, 6	The father of English fishing literature, Izaak Walton, devotes two chapters of The Compleat Angler to chubs (or “cheven” in the archaic plural), and in one scene his Piscator takes pleasure in catching the largest one of a school of twenty to the amazement of his companions, Venator and Auceps.
Aug 12. 2008	A Pheasant Under Glass	Two seemingly unrelated events led tube fly tyer par excellence Bob Kenly to this method of tying and to discover a coloring system that I have never tried before: dyed Lady Amherst tail feathers and a note requesting something different to be thrown in the water for salmon in New Foundland.
Aug 11. 2008	Small Fry, 5	The white perch is actually an anadromous silver bass in the fish family Moronidae. This game panfish is the little cousin of the striped bass and shares much of the same habitat: the brackish tidal estuaries and adjacent rivers of the mid-Atlantic and New England states.
Jul 30. 2008	Sharks!	When two friends go down the road, for a late afternoon fly fishing session on the reefs, and take their #14 and #15 rods... You know that there is something radically wrong, upstairs. This is the story of the two friends Jacques Visser and Jimmy Eagleton who have taken on the South African sharks.
Jul 28. 2008	Small Fry, 4	I have been an amateur musician for many years, comfortable on both keys and strings, and to use an analogy from that facet of my life I will state that, to me, the rock bass is akin to a punk rock song — It hits you hard, is pugnacious and tough up front, and though it doesn’t last too long, it is undeniably a strong, clever, and classic rocker.
Jul 23. 2008	Bon A(d)venture - Day 1	Two days of fishing in one of the world's clearest salmon rivers, Bon Aventure, Gaspé, French Canada. Follow Kasper Mühlbach for two days on this renowned river, famous for it's fantastic dry fly fishing for salmon but also known for plenty of grilse and larger atlantic salmon.
Jul 14. 2008	Small Fry, 3	Lepomis auritus, the redbreast sunfish, does not receive the front-page press of its cousins the bluegill, the crappie, and the black bass. This species deserves increased specific attention, though, especially from fly anglers who prefer to fish flowing water, because the redbreast is the stream sunfish.
Jul 10. 2008	Fish Bum Volume I: Mongolia	The opening scenes of River Wolf - after the titles - are no less than breathtaking. And by that I mean breathtaking in the literal sense of the word.
Jul 4. 2008	GFF Summit 2008	It's time for the yearly gathering of GFF-readers. Once again we invite you to participate in the Global FlyFisher Summit, which as usual will take place in September in Denmark. The list of participants is already filling up, so read more about the arrangement here and sign up ASAP.
Jul 3. 2008	Bob White	Bob White is probably best known for his illustrations for John Gierach's long running column in the printed magazine Fly Rod and Reel. Here he tells a bit about how it all started, how he works - and that he also guides and has done so through 27 seasons from south to north, home and abroad.
Jun 30. 2008	Small Fry, 2	The smallmouth bass is the headliner of small coolwater venues and that fact is understandable. Micropterus dolomieui bends fly rods and performs top water acrobatics throughout the course of the fishing season, even during the hottest dog days, as long as the human on the other end of the line knows his or her art and craft.
Jun 17. 2008	A Celebration of Salmon Rivers	The cover picture is from Laxa in Ađaldal on Iceland and does strike a note, which suits this book eloquently, being a journey in words and pictures to the world's best salmon waters.
Jun 16. 2008	Small Fry, intro	A treatise on small fish and small waters; an eclectic collection of classic fly pattern variations; a survey of some of the better literature on the art and sport of fly fishing; a portrait of the angler as a young man... All of these descriptions apply to "Small Fry: The Lure of the Little" brought to you by ron P. swegman.
Jun 16. 2008	Hardy DVD	A British company with the fantastic name Trufflepig Films has made an interesting DVD about Hardy
Jun 12. 2008	Shooting head fisher?	If you're a shooting head fisher, GFF might need your help
Jun 11. 2008	Niels' flies	If you thought that silk lines, split cane rods and full dressed salmon flies was something people used a century ago, you may want to read this article about Niels Have who fishes his classical flies on a Phoenix silk line wound on a Hardy Perfect reel mounted on a Highlander two-hand split cane rod.
Jun 11. 2008	ron P. swegman	Author and GFF contributor.
Jun 6. 2008	Small Fry, 1	Perfection is as illusory in fishing as it is in any other aspect of life, yet practice brings with it certain plateaus of near-perfection. Such stages in a fly fisher’s practice provide a good time and opportunity to branch out.
Jun 5. 2008	The Graphite Fly Rod	Now, we all know that winter is the season for building rods.
May 30. 2008	GFF Summit 2008	The planning for this year's Summit is slowly commencing. This is the first official announcement.
May 28. 2008	Jan's Emerger	Another new pattern from Jan Grandal-Johansen, this time a buzzer emerger that fishes well on the reservoirs in the UK. Those hackle tip wings are just killer.
May 18. 2008	Ireland bound	Well, it's a dirty job, you know, but some one has to do all that traveling.
May 17. 2008	Fly Fishing for Bonefish	Dick Brown's bonefishing book is a true classic, and one of the first ones that was recommended to me when I was taking on bonefish for the first time.
May 15. 2008	Two for one	The follow up to the "Early Morning" pocasts - with evening and morning fishing and an extra fishing day thrown in.
May 9. 2008	Early morning	Planning to get up at 3 in the morning to fish
May 8. 2008	Mart's Parachute Ant	During the warmer months of the year, they are just about anywhere... Ants. Martin Westbeek shows an easy way to tie a good ant imitation that will sit well on the surface and hopefully lure trout or grayling.
Apr 29. 2008	King of the moonfish	I managed to squeeze in some real fishing in Florida thanks to GFF contributor Martin Bowers
Apr 13. 2008	Florida bound	It's not a fishing vacation, but there are rods in the luggage!