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Blog entry The Danish Fly Festival 2017 Jan 8. 2017 If you reside in Denmark, northern Germany or southern Sweden, this is an event you should mark in your calendar	Blog entry The coolest bobbin holder Dec 27. 2016 If you want a really cool bobbin holder, carbon fiber and all, it's off to Kickstarter to support Ilias Fn Karanzas' Apex Predator Bobbin project!	Blog entry Laser cut tool holders Dec 20. 2016 I'm working on an article on tool holders and have been fooling around with a drawing program and a laser cutter
Blog entry Do me a favor: go fishing! Nov 22. 2016 Yeah, I know it's winter in the northern hemisphere, but a friend's recent passing and an old picture got me to write this.	Nerd alert Blog entry A little about caching Nov 15. 2016 A site as GFF needs some level of caching in order to be able to deliver pages fast without bogging down the server or database	Blog entry Why the drama? Oct 24. 2016 Why is it that fishing shows on TV have to be either drama, competition or exaggeration - or all three?
Nerd alert Blog entry Fighting spam on GFF Sep 2. 2016 Here's a rundown of the different things I do to keep spammers from posting on the Global FlyFisher	Blog entry The Regal mystery Aug 10. 2016 There's a gazillion tyers who love the Regal style, angled spring clamp fly-tying vises, but I always wondered why they are so popular	Nerd alert Blog entry The fixed top menu Jul 29. 2016 A lot of sites feature a part of the page – typically a top menu – that is fixed to the top of the screen when you scroll down. Here are some thoughts about such a feature and how to do it.
Nerd alert Blog entry The technology behind LeaderCalc Jul 27. 2016 This is the story about the adaptation of the old LeaderCalc spreadsheet to a Drupal module that drives a web based system	Blog entry #‎flypatternphotochallenge‬ Jul 26. 2016 A couple of weeks ago my Facebook wall started overflowing with great fly photos. I think I should thank David Hise for that.	Nerd alert Blog entry The GFF Drupal theme Jul 26. 2016 The Drupal theme that's used on the Global FlyFisher is home made from scratch. I deplore large and complex themes, and prefer simple and compact.
Nerd alert Blog entry The new newsletter Jul 26. 2016 I reinstated the GFF Newsletter that we stopped sending a decade ago. This article is about the system driving the new newsletter.	Nerd alert Blog entry GFF BTS Jul 26. 2016 This section tells a bit about the technology behind and development of the Global FlyFisher. Nothing at all about fishing or fly tying, but interesting to some.	Blog entry Friends, rods and sausages Jun 9. 2016 Today was the day of the annual and traditional get-together arranged by the Copenhagen Fly Casting Club. Enjoyable as always.
Blog entry Contacting companies Jun 1. 2016 It's amazing how some companies manage to totally ignore all attempts to contact them. Why do they have email, contact forms and Facebook pages, if they don't reply when people use them?	Blog entry New Danish hooks May 20. 2016 New hook brands isn't something we see ever so often, but just recently two Danish hook series have seen the light of day	Blog entry If I had boobs Feb 19. 2016 It seems to me that success in fly fishing, fly tying, guiding, writing or filming as well as social media can be secured by simply being a young and reasonably good looking woman
Blog entry Tying session in the woods Feb 18. 2016 Thirty-some fly tyers met in a restaurant in Denmark, ate some good food and tied flies together	Blog entry Newsletter revival Feb 9. 2016 I'm working on a revival of the Global FlyFisher Newsletter, which was sent out for a short period many years ago.	Blog entry My morning with videos Feb 2. 2016 Every morning before I start working I go though a bunch of fishing and tying videos. Join me on such a video spree
Blog entry Pay-per-view tying Jan 8. 2016 I'm not planning on making paid tying videos, but have seen more and more of them online. My small survey says that it's not good business.	Blog entry My Secret Fly Reel Fetish Dec 16. 2015 If I had enough money (and space) I would indulge in an extravagant fly reel fetish	Blog entry A guest post for your blog Nov 21. 2015 Ever so often I get a mail asking if I would like to have guest posts on the Global FlyFisher. I have turned down every offer until now and here's why.

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