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2003

Date	Title	Body	Image
Aug 21. 2003	New Zealand	I wanna go there!
Aug 20. 2003	Chub and bream	Species less thought off
Aug 20. 2003	Orvis CFO Discontinued?	Please, say it isn't so
Aug 20. 2003	Catskill Flea Market	Anyone Going
Aug 19. 2003	Fun with slides	Checking out old pics is great fun
Aug 18. 2003	Denver Tackle Dealer Show	I wish I could go there...
Aug 17. 2003	Still warm	The water is still more suitable for swimming than for fishing.
Aug 17. 2003	Interesting tools	Mike Hogue has stuff on the way
Aug 15. 2003	First GFFBlog entry	This is the first entry at all...
Aug 15. 2003	Second for the same day	Taking shape
Aug 15. 2003	C&F tube body tool	The C&F extended tube body tool is more than two darning needles in a fancy holder. If you - like Dutch Henk Verhaar - like doing it yourself, this might be worth looking into. The flies tied with extended bodies can become very realistic and still be simple to tie.
Aug 8. 2003	River Mandal	”I hate to ask you, but do you want to go salmon fishing for a week?” The voice of GFF partner Partin Joergensen's friend Ole sounded sincere enough and Martin went with him to Norway to fish for small salmon. But the outcome turned out to be a lot larger than standard grilse.
Aug 1. 2003	Spring 2003 pictures	Fishing on the Danish coast during the spring months - March, April, and May - can be a true blessing. Many species are about, but particularly sea trout and garfish can be plenty and easy to catch. This small gallery shows some scenes from Denmark this spring.
Jul 30. 2003	SHCZCDNTM	Yep! It's yet another one of that Danish madman's muddlers. This time with an even longer name: The Short Heavy Chicago-Zürich-Copenhagen Delayed Nutria Tube Muddler or SHCZCDNTM for easier remembering!
Jul 14. 2003	Bert Quimby	Another entry in the continuing series of features highlighting the flies of the founders of the art of streamer tying. Bert Quimby is not as well known as many, but his flies are just as beautiful and original.
Jun 25. 2003	Colorado camaraderie	Things to do near Denver -- not when you are dead but actually when you are very much alive and ready for some fishing adventures. Follow Kasper Mühlbach and GFF partners Steve Schweitzer and Martin Joergensen on a trip.
May 1. 2003	Mike Martineks Rangeley Streamers	Internationally known streamer tyer Mike Martinek shares some of his flies
Apr 25. 2003	Great rod gizmo!	The Magnetic Rod Guard from Tight Line Enterprises will solve more than the problem of keeping your rod out of harms way while you finish up by your car. A neat and simple product to solve a very common problem.
Apr 16. 2003	Flyline Maintenance 101	Maintaining that expensive string coated with plastics and polymers is the best medicine for adding years of life your flyline. Consider cleaning flylines after every 3-5 uses or when the water is particularly dirty.
Apr 11. 2003	Better-Winged Olives	A recent tying binge left me with a few thoughts on how to tie a quicker and better blue-winged olive mayfly. The ideas aren't necessarily new, but they certainly are worth sharing.
Apr 9. 2003	Mayflies: Top to Bottom	First things first - I really enjoyed this book.
Apr 9. 2003	The LL Bean Ultimate Book of Fly Fishing	The L.L. Bean Ultimate Book of Fly Fishing is comprised of three previously published books - Dave Whitlock's Fly-Fishing Handbook, Macauley Lord's Fly-Casting Handbook, and Dick Talleur's Fly-Tying Handbook.
Apr 9. 2003	Taking Trout	Geez—with a subtitle like that, what more is there that can be said?
Apr 8. 2003	Trout from Small Streams	It seems that big fish, big rivers, and monster hatches catch all the headlines these days - especially what is found on the huge tailwaters below the many dams that have been built over the years.
Apr 7. 2003	Baby Buggers	Wooly buggers are one of the all time most effective fish catching flies. However, if you think you need heavy tackle and lots of lead to get them to work - think again. Peter Frailey tells about his "Baby Buggers", and how well they cast and fish.
Mar 6. 2003	The Gentlemen's Society of Angling	At only 126 pages, this quick read will have your mind absorbed in the genesis and exodus of The Gentlemen's Society of Angling.
Mar 5. 2003	Montana Trout	Craig Fellin, owner of Big Hole Outfitters in Montana, tells how a first time flyfisher can spend a week working with an experienced guide learning most aspects of the sport at his or her own pace. "By the end of the week, you should have a mastery of the sport" he writes.
Feb 26. 2003	The Riffling Hitch	A whole book about a very special fishing technique for salmon and steelhead by one of the sport's most well known authors.
Feb 26. 2003	LR Dyer	Luke - or LR as he's better known - is an avid salmon angler fishing mostly off the banks of the Miramichi and Kedgwick Rivers in New Brunswick, Canada.
Feb 22. 2003	Dry-Fly Patterns for the New Millenium	The flies represented vary from classics tied by recognized experts to contemporary patterns, terrestrials, and extra-terrestrials.
Feb 16. 2003	Rotary vices	This section of Tie Better will deal with rotary fly tying vices. I will try to explain what a true rotary vice is, what its advatnages are and how it can be used in different steps of fly tying.
Feb 12. 2003	Tying Flies with CDC	A history of CDC in fly tying, as well as a wealth of patterns and techniques.
Feb 12. 2003	A Fly Fisher's Reflections	A compilation of articles and essays from one of the finest trout fishermen in the world.
Feb 10. 2003	Grayling trip	A small trip for grayling in the southern part of Denmark. Not something that will go over in history, but certainly a nice trip with beautiful sights and beautiful fish.
Feb 1. 2003	Tying Flies the Paraloop Way	My first thought was probably the same as yours - what is "paraloop"? Paraloop is part technique, part style. Take a piece of a parachute, a bit of a thorax dun, and some thoughts of a comparadun, mix, and you'll arrive at a paraloop.
Jan 16. 2003	Real Enough!	A bunch of quite realistic flies by a bunch of well known and unknown international tiers. These fantastic flies are not super realistic imitations, but they certainly look real and convincing enough to fool both men and fish!
Jan 8. 2003	Choice pike fishing tool	The Sirrus COMATRIX 9 wt. is in many ways the perfect pike fishing tool - able to lift and cast large and heavy flies, and with one serious butt section. Dutch Henk Verhaar test fished it in his favorite pike waters and was very pleased.
Jan 1. 2003	Fall Streamers	Looking for some juicy streamers to swing in your favorite trout stream or pond in the coming Fall? Check out these attractive flies from a streamer swap hosted by Scott Daskiewich.

2002

Date	Title	Body	Image
Dec 31. 2002	Garret Booth	I grew up in Upstate New York. My father taught me the basics of fly fishing and tying. He also taught that the sport can be your passion, livelihood, therapy, and hobby.
Dec 31. 2002	Chris Del Plato	Chris is a streamer afficionado who contributes to GFF.
Dec 26. 2002	Realistic Flies	Realistic flies are not only for the display case. As Steve Thornton shows us, realism can also be applied to practical and effective fishing flies. Trout and grayling beware!
Dec 22. 2002	Monic Light Green	Cold weather lines are slowly becoming as common as the special lines for tropical fishing. GFF partner Martin Joergensen has fished one from Monic and liked it very much.
Dec 13. 2002	Ghost Reindeer Shiner	This article should rightly be subtitled "what to do when you don't have the right material that a pattern calls for?"
Dec 12. 2002	Lamar Reel Seats	Andy Dear hits a home run with his custom reel seat spacers and complete reel seats. It's a rare thing for a product to get a "Global Class" GFF rating, but Andy's woodworking skills earn him that high honor easily.
Dec 12. 2002	Lake Erie Shiner	Lake Erie Shiner is a Killing Bucktail from the vise of Floyd Franke
Dec 10. 2002	The Curtis Creek Manifesto	You will have to look a long way for a better and funnier introduction to fly fishing, which at the same time can serve you as a fly fishing mini-bible for many years.
Dec 10. 2002	Venneri's Reel Seats	Recently, GFF partners Bob Petti and Steve Schweitzer had the chance to visit Bob Venneri at his house and get a look-see into his workshop and how his seats are made, by hand, one at a time.
Dec 8. 2002	Screwhead Matuka	GFF partner Martin Joergensen has been fooling aruond with Bidoz Products brand new Kameleon Heads. These aluminium heads screw onto almost any straight eye hook - such as the one on the Screwhead Matuka.
Dec 6. 2002	The Making of a Prize Rod	The grand prize for the Flymeister 2001 contest was a custom built fly rod made by Neal Hall, owner of Classic Destiny rods and president of the Custom Rod Builder's Guild.
Dec 1. 2002	Beyond beauty	"Land of Little Rivers, A Story in Photos of Catskill Fly Fishing" by Austin McK. Francis scores a Global FlyFisher Global Class mark in Bob Petti's review. Read about the book whose beauty is only exceeded by the majesty of the subject.