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2020 - Editorial - Articles, blog posts
2020 - Editorial - Articles, blog posts
A heartfelt thank you!
It’s been one and a half years since I started accepting donations to keep the site running, and the support has been overwhelming!
Thanks
Chalk and Cheese
An English flyfisher acquires a house in France - which just happens to have a chalk stream running its property
Fish Scaled Up
Danish fly angler and professional photographer Søren Skarby got an idea: to photograph fish like they'd never been photographed before
More here
Counting newsletter openings and clicks
I have build a small Drupal-module, which enables me to see how many recipients open my newsletters and click on links in it
Merging Wordpress content into Drupal
There’s a bunch of modules to help importing content into Drupal. My experience is that they are inadequate, and don’t do what I need. I prefer DIY.
Streamers 365 joins the Global FlyFisher!
The renowned streamer aficionado site streamers365.com is shutting down, but GFF has "inherited" all its fantastic content.
Read about it here
Swimming Caddis Pupa
This ragged looking caddis pupa from the hands of Norwegian Viggo Larsson will work well on both fast and calm water
See how to tie it here
Simple Flies
Simple is good. Not primitive… simple. And this is another fine book with simple fly patterns.
Motley Flies
I recently went through my large archive of images. Suddenly I had a whole bunch of fly images. I gathered them into a small gallery.
See it here
Nick Mayer
Nick Mayer's watercolors are large, colorful and stunningly beautiful. Read about his journey from his childhood sketchbook to becoming a full time artist.
The story is told here
Viggo Larsson
I live in Mo i Rana, a town in Helgeland in Northern Norway. I have three children aged 20, 5 and 4, and a wonderfully understanding cohabitant, Sølvi, who lets me keep up with my passions: fly tying ...
Read a small bio here
Autumn Fly
This fly is a Danish sea trout fly, tied to catch sea run brown trout along the Danish and Baltic coasts. It was originated by Danish fly angler and tyer Henrik Brangstrup in the late 90’s, and even t...
See how to tie it here
Trophy rainbows in Slovakia
In the last two years I slowly started to realize, that my decisions regarding the choice where to go fishing and what kind of fish I should target, tended towards waters, which hold big rainbow trout...
Read much more here
Betters' Flies
Fran Betters was a creative tyer and originated several patterns that have become quite famous. Mike Hogue covers four of them in this article.
See the original flies here
Orange Brush
A fly I tied and shot back in 2005. Inspired bu the Omoe Brush, but using bright orange for the body and dense grizzly hackle rather than golden pheasant.
Einars’ Floating Foam Caddis Pupa
A great and high floating caddis fly made with foam as a base material and a very simple and cool technique.
See the pattern here
Euro BWOs Revisited
In our continuous effort to obtain better and more practical mayfly imitations, we discovered a few new and simple solutions.
Much more here.
The GFF Interview
GFF gets too little press coverage, so I interviewed myself, and asked myself a number of intelligent questions and offered some equally brilliant answers.
Durable flies: Wrapping thread
The basic technique of wrapping thread over - and under - materials is a key to getting flies that will hold well
Read the third chapter here.
Durable flies: Before you tie
One key to durability in flies is to prepare a bit before starting - and choosing the right hook, thread and materials
Read the second chapter here.
Durable flies: Why?
How to tie flies that last more than a cast, a trip, a month... heck, even a year. We're starting a series of articles with some tips on tying durable flies – and keeping them intact.
Read the first chapter here.
Kavik
The Kavik is a simple zonker-based streamer, well suited for a lot of different fish, and easy to adapt in color and material choice
See how to tie it here.
Moulin’s Deer Hair Parachute
Swiss/Norwegian tyer Fabien Moulin stumbled upon a seemingly new way of creating a parachute hackle and wing in one.
See more here
George Grant Nymph
US fisherman and fly tyer George Grant came up with a type of nymph where both body and hackle uses special techniques.
See how to here.
The Monster Brown Trout of Thingvallavatn
The Icelandic lake Thingvallavatn has become synonymous with monster ice age brown trout. People from all over the world come to chase their dream fish. Many have their dream come true from the first cast, others go home empty handed.
Get the lowdown here
Foileel
A couple of flies I tied many years ago.
Twist of Lemon
A simple salmon fly tied many years ago.
Humpy
A humpy given to me by Dutch tyer Jay Lee during a fly tying show we both tied at.
Squirrel Zonker
A small zonker tied for an article on the site
Have's baitfish 4
One of a number of baitfish flies tied by Danish fly tyer Niels Have
Have's baitfish 3
One of a number of baitfish flies tied by Danish fly tyer Niels Have
The Atlantic Salmon Fly
OK, this is not a new book! Actually it’s quite an old book… like published 30 years ago, in 1991. It was one of the first books I bought back when I started buying fly fishing books. I found it a few...
Have's baitfish 2
One of a number of baitfish flies tied by Danish fly tyer Niels Have
Have's baitfish 1
One of a number of baitfish flies tied by Danish fly tyer Niels Have
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