Jun 2006 - All - Editorial, videos, user submitted content

Michael Smith

Michael Smith is a computer security geek living in the Washington, DC area. During the work day, he designs security monitoring systems. By night and weekends, he aspires to catch every fish within 200 miles of "The Beltway".

GFF Summit 2006

Meet other Global FlyFishers at this fish-in for GFF staff, readers and friends, which will take place in Denmark mid-September. We will mainly aim for coastal fishing, but there will also be stream and lake optoins.
Read more and sign up here

Terestrial

Terestrial
Submitted by:
SheZ

Favorite Dad

In Virginia, the rivers are full of crayfish. Author Michael Smith AKA Rybolov went last week to the South Fork of the Shenandoah, and in a meter-square area along the shoreline, there had to be at least 30 crayfish. That may be why Skip's Dad works so well there.
Learn to tie the bass pattern here

Casting pictures

If you look in casting books, ads for fly lines or just the odd fly fishing magazine, you will often see some fascinating pictures of casting. Lines forming the most beautiful arcs in the air, clearly illustrating one of the mesmerizing things about fly fishing: the beauty of the cast.
Learn how to shoot casting in this article

Macro

Most fly anglers will find that using macro in their photography can be truly thrilling. A lot of what we are interested in is small, and many will appreciate being able to capture small things. This article in the series about fishing photography covers macro photography from an angler's perspective.
Learn more here

Measure tape II

Jari Wiklund participated in the Danish Fly Casting Championships and finished second. Read his report from the event and his reflections about casting for the sake of casting and (almost) not a word about fishing. He quotes Lefty Kreh who said:
There is no disadvantage in being able to cast far

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