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2004
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A smart spooler

The Smart Spooler is one of those gadgets that you didn't know you needed before you got it. The Smart Spooler is aimed primarily at aiding fly anglers in cleaning their lines, but the neatly designed and sturdy tool has several other purposes.

Last Trout of the Year

Maybe not, but it feels like it

Fly Fishing California's Great Waters

The book is not huge by any standards, but the eighty-some pages is enough to get you around and aroused.

Great fish, Bob

But are you sure you don't wanna loose that hat?

I fish too!

But I still have my hat

BC in B/W

GFF partner Martin Joergensen recently returned from a trip to British Columbia. Although he has promised to write up some text about the trip, his pictures are just too pretty to stash away for much longer.

My GFF cap gone!

I sacrificed my trusty olive GFF cap to the mighty Skeena

Rio Piratos

Rio Lagartos is a small town on the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico which is an excellent starting point for a tarpon trip. GFF partner Martin Joergensen's trip there didn't bring the big 100 lbs. tarpon, but many decent ones - plus the odd jack and snook.

Reel Seats

I'm a sucker for a good piece of wood

Salmon Season

It's time

New Stuff

It all started when I had to toss my bottle of Pharamcist's Formula in the trash. Scanning the net for a suitable replacement, I found a husband and wife team that are producing a bunch of interesting products for fly fishers and tyers.

Behind Private Doors

It's for the trade only. Joe Q. Public can't get in. Before any trade magazine, before any other internet webzine... let GFF be THE FIRST take you on an EXCLUSIVE tour of this invite-only show. See who hobnobbed at the show and 

Europe's Cutest Potbelly

I might look skinny, but...

Europe's Greatest Sandwich

It might not beat Bob's but heck it's good!

Skunked

Fishing and not fishing

Europe's Greatest Sandwich

Nice Sandwich Martin ...

Rod Magnets

"Your fly fishing life really first starts when you get a magnetic rod holder". Those are the words of GFF partner Martin Joergensen, who has used a set of Tightline Enterprises rod holders during this season, and has been very pleased.

Hook Fetish

Are there ever enough?

Fly Tying To-Do Lists

Does anyone else keep one?

World's Greatest Sandwich

A Quizno's Inspired Thing of Culinary Delight

Whirly gig

A fond memory from a trip to California

Ouch!

Hooking yourself is part of life when you fish

Summer has gone

Temperatures are dropping - in the air and in the water

Chained, really

Not fishing is pure torture!

Chubby Fishing

Kasper Mühlbach started fishing for chub with small lumps of dough as a kid, but has since developed flies and techniques to take this query on a fly rod. His chub patterns are simple and will most likely catch you roach and bream too if they are around.

Bamboo part 7

Follow along as Harry Boyd takes us through the process of trimming the bamboo blank to the proper length, preparing and mounting your ferrules, and adjusting the fit of the ferrules. Many thanks to Harry for this well received series of articles.

Hornbergs

An old swap sees the light of day

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.

Bamboo Rod Building

Sneak Peak

Heat

The summer got hot anyway!

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.

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

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.

Spey Flies: How to Tie Them

Like many fly tyers, I've always had a fascination with spey style flies.

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.

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.

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.

A rainy November

We're having the worst summer in many years

Leaders&Tippets Q&A

Stillwater Fly Fishing - Tools & Tactics

Paul Marriner covers the subject in three main sections: tackle, locating fish and fishing tactics and flies.

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.

Esopus Creek

A little bit of Montana in New York

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.

Beaverkill

Spring is Gone

Spinning

I spin fished! And caught fish!

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.

Re: Envy, envy!

Well, I do have the ocean

Re: Envy, envy!

There are two closer

Envy, envy!

I wish that I had a stream in my backyard

Tying Emergers

Wow. Three hundred and forty four pages of emergers. Leeson and Schollmeyer have done it again.

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