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Submitted by Sean Burke on

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0:41 instant bite! That was nice. Always wanted to try catching barbel on flies, but in the area I live, there's hardly a spot similar to this one. Nice spot by the way.

Submitted by Phil Ewanicki on

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A fly rod is a lever designed to accelerate a load. The load (effective resistance) and degree of acceleration are determined by the fly caster. It's a poor workman who blames his tools.

Submitted by chris on

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I don't mind the ads the way they are now, they don't detract from the information. I hope it works out for you and you can recover some of your costs.

Submitted by 1737246309 on

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Hello Martin,

No problem at all with the ads, it is good for the site.
It already has cost you and the other owners a lot of money the last 20 years.

Best regards,

Tom Biesot

Submitted by Liz Lombardo on

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Big brown trout hunters must keep their secrets where big browns are found. But Dave, the Mongaup River is the home of monster browns 11.3 pound brown, Moorish mouse brings chaos and turmoil to a hand tied 8 pound tipit.
Black Jeep Rubacon

Good GFF people,

As you can see I have taken the consequence of the positive feedback on ads and started rolling out Google ads on our pages. It will slowly go though to all pages as the pretty hefty caching system gets emptied and refreshed.

Thanks for your support!

Martin

Submitted by Rainer on

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Some years ago on a Sunday morning I was flyfishing in the Main river in Frankfurt. Two boys where rowing on the river. When they had passed me one said to the other:"Did you see his rod? He is fishing with a damaged rod"!
I imagine that they didn't see any fly rod before......

Submitted by jur606 on

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I really don t care about ads,
I just love the GFF site and it's contents, And i have absolutly NP with ads.

Mabey you should make order some caps and sell them with GFF on the cap (i would love it :P)
If you make only 1 of 2 bucks on a cap I think your bills for the site are payed for a year to come?

Martin,

it is completely up to you, but the donate button idea sounds good for me too.

Jan

Submitted by Mike Clark on

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I would prefer a subscription say $2.00 dollars a month drawn out of my debit account like I do with Netflix. I never miss it. If 200 site fans would do this that 400 per month or 4800 per year to help with expenses. Love the site have no problem helping.

Martin, ideology is a wonderful concept, but the real world doesn't work that way. You can't walk into a restaurant and eat for free. I understand your dalema and I will still be a supporter of you and your site no matter what your decision is. When I post my videos to You Tube, I chose to allow them to include their advertising for the same reason even though I hate ads. A few dollars helps out each month. Unfortunately You Tube doesn't start paying until you hit 1,000 subscribers, which I don't have and may not have. My feeling is, if the ads will help you support GFF, then I will bite the bullet and put up with them. I do understand business and I applaud your efforts to keep ads off your site all these years. Best regards. Richard

Everybody,

Thanks for the support!
I have yet to hear from someone who downright says no, but I have heard from a couple of people who suggested donations as an option. I toyed with that idea a couple of years ago, and may revive it, allowing you to donate money to the site.

But for now I think I will slowly start rolling out the ad system and see where it leads in term of revenue and user reactions.

Thanks again

Martin

Submitted by Allan Overgaar… on

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As much as i hate internet adds i would be very sad if i wasent able to check the latest news on GFF.
Love the site.

Submitted by Michael Nicholas on

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Your mag is really excellent. if you have to include ads, go ahead, I promise to read them and if required when buying any of the products advertised to tell the advertiser that I saw the product on your page. A small price to pay for an excellent magazine.

Submitted by John LeJeune on

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A tongue and cheek "advertizing" metaphor. . .

Waders - $399
Wading Jacket $299
Fancy space age material based rod - $795
Anodized aircraft aluminum reel - $325
Backing, line, leader and tippet $110
All that other junk that clangs and clatters on your vest $????!

Global Fly Fisher Website - Priceless.

Martin - Whatever you do will not deter me from coming to this wonderful site. Thank you and the team for all your hard work and monetary outlay. You have gone above and beyond what many other sites do. I too would like to donate to the site. Please tell us how to do that. (PayPal or other. Maybe an Amazon wishlist where we can buy and ship you books and videos that are difficult to get in Denmark) Could we get a critical mass of donors to keep the site going? An interesting thought. You are only asking for the same amount a weeks stay for one at a destination fishing spot would cost.

Thanks again GFF team for all that you do!

John

Since you got this far …


The GFF money box

… I have a small favor to ask.

Long story short

Support the Global FlyFisher through several different channels, including PayPal.

Long story longer

The Global FlyFisher has been online since the mid-90's and has been free to access for everybody since day one – and will stay free for as long as I run it.
But that doesn't mean that it's free to run.
It costs money to drive a large site like this.
See more details about what you can do to help in this blog post.