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Dec 17. 2019
A part of fishing is not catching anything. If you’re only in it for the catching, there’s something you have misunderstood.
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Oct 4. 2019
Yes, a non-native English speaker proofreads material from a host of mostly non-English amateur writers, and sometimes errors do slip through
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Sep 26. 2019
Dave Stewart from the podcast "Wet Fly Swing" contacted me for participation in one of his podcasts, and it’s now online to enjoy.
Nerd alert
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Sep 10. 2019
The blocks of nicely laid out images on GFF has required quite a bit of work to refine.
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Aug 30. 2019
Russian Ramil Yamaliev has upgraded his fly photo ringlight, and improved its performance significantly
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Aug 16. 2019
A rather far fetched transcript of an internet meme* actually quite well covers my book situation right now.
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Jul 20. 2019
GFF partner Bob Petti visited, and even though we didn’t fish or tie flies, we talked quite a bit about fishing… and he brought two books
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Jun 19. 2019
A few things happened during the last couple months that made me think of, buy and read nice fishing books again.
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Mar 7. 2019
Another Danish Fly Festival is over, and as always it was a great experience. Lots of people to meet, lots of things to see.
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Feb 25. 2019
In a few days I'm leaving for the Danish Fly Festival, and there I will be tying in the tyers row, an activity that I love
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Feb 19. 2019
In principle there's free and unlimited access to all coasts in Denmark. That's what the law says. But in many places reality is different.
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Jan 20. 2019
A good friend offered me a macro flash he didn't use any more in exchange for a handful of flies
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Jan 9. 2019
My books used to be ordered by black magic, essentially a system where I stuffed in new titles where there was space. Things have changed.
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Dec 8. 2018
The biennial gathering of fly anglers, casters, tyers, vendors, artists, artisans and other good people will take place again in Denmark in early March 2019
Nerd alert
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Nov 24. 2018
Lazy loading is a performance improvement where images (and other assets) are loaded when needed, not when the page is loaded
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Sep 15. 2018
Stacking up fishing books and never reading them… not here!
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Sep 13. 2018
The publishing pace on GFF has almost come to a standstill. Real life has stuck its ugly head in the door and brought paid work
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Jun 11. 2018
No, not strikes from fish, but strikes from spammers and wannabe guest posters who try to get their spam published on GFF. Three strikes and they get this.
Nerd alert
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Jun 10. 2018
It seems to me that a lot of software problems are solved by adding complexity. It's a bad solution. I hate it.
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May 6. 2018
If you do, you might consider supporting it in a slightly more substantial way. It's been free for decades... literally... but could use a little saltwater injection. Now accepting PayPal...
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Apr 28. 2018
I just returned from a week-long fishing trip with my wife and a bunch of good friends – and I didn’t make a single cast.
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Apr 16. 2018
My fly tying room and office is slowly taking shape - and color. A set of shelves and small chests were painted green.
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Apr 4. 2018
I was involuntarily involved in a disagreement between two authors and their publisher, and have now placed myself in a tight spot
Nerd alert
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Feb 21. 2018
The GFF video section uses a few neat cowboy tricks to smoothly integrate videos from YouTube and Vimeo into the site

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