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Jan 2004 - All - Editorial, videos, user submitted content

Digitizing Flies

A digital camera with a good macro facility is the perfect way to take good fly pictures. GFF partner Martin Joergensen has updated his now classical Digitizing Flies article with a whole new chapter on selecting and using a digital camera for fly photography.

New facilities

One of the great things about moving to a new server was getting more control with things. We are now in a much better position to utilize the many smart techniques that are available for web pages.
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Black Funnel

This fly is kind of a coincidence. An idea. A fad. But it works. It is a funnel dun, Deveaux, Joergensen kind of pattern, which will imitate a hatching mosquito - albeit a very large one in the original version. It consists of two materials and is very easy to tie.

Martin Joergensen shows you how here

Czech nymphs

Does anyone remember the early to mid 90's? The rage in the US, at least among tyers of trout flies, was Polish woven nymphs. Fast forward to the dawn of the new century and these articles and flies have all but disappeared? Were they a fad? What happened?

Read Bob Petti's article here

Largely painless server move

So we moved to a new server...
And then what?
Not much! ...I hope...

You shouldn't feel any difference except for a increased performance and better quality of service.

Apart from that there ...

GFF on a new server

We have long been plagued by slow service from our previous web space provider Communitech/Interland, and wanted to do something about it.

I have also complained about the lack of available disk sp...