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Celebrating 10,000 videos

Nov 13. 2019
Celebration So, the Global FlyFisher’s video section just passed 10,000 videos. And suitably enough it was a Davie McPhail videos showing how to tie a muddler.
Read a bit more here
Article

10K videos!

Oct 8. 2019
Anniversary The number of videos on the Global FlyFisher video page is steadily closing in on 10,000!
A few facts here
Blog entry

Does anyone proofread this crap?

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
Blog entry

I'm on the air!

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
Blog entry

The magazine image system

Sep 10. 2019
The blocks of nicely laid out images on GFF has required quite a bit of work to refine.
Article

GFF on Instagram

Feb 7. 2019
Social The Global FlyFisher has long been on various social media, and is now on Instagram too
Find us here
Nerd alert
Blog entry

Lazy loading

Nov 24. 2018
Lazy loading is a performance improvement where images (and other assets) are loaded when needed, not when the page is loaded
Blog entry

When real life takes over

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
Blog entry

Three strikes...

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
Blog entry

Why I hate complexity

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.
Blog entry

Do you like this site?

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...
Blog entry

Green storage

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.
Nerd alert
Blog entry

Drupal, YouTube and Vimeo integration

Feb 21. 2018
The GFF video section uses a few neat cowboy tricks to smoothly integrate videos from YouTube and Vimeo into the site
Blog entry

The new GFF HQ

Feb 18. 2018
We have moved from an apartment to a house, and GFF is getting a larger and better equipped main office.
Blog entry

The decline of GFF

Jan 4. 2018
No, don't worry! It's not that GFF is disappearing, but the number of visitors isn’t what it used to be.

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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.