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GFF turns 30!

30 years ... thirty years, like three decades. That’s how old this site is, and that’s actually quite a feat.
No fuzz.
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Books

All you ever wanted to read about fly fishing and tying

Ginny vs the Four French Bulldogs of the Apocalypse

Ben Jailler is a UK fly angler and author, whose new book entitled "Fish Camp Fail" bears this interesting sequence of events (or promises?) on the cover:
Go Fishing -> Control the Fear -> Avoid Were...
Read more here
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Fish Better

Become a better fly fisher

Casting backwards

There are a ton of situations where a backcast presentation will save the day. Here are a few good reasons to learn it – and how.
Pics and videos
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Food

Tasty fish recipes

Fishing the Danish way

No, this is not about some novel way of catching sea trout or how to get a large Danish salmon, but about remembering to relax when you fish.
Learn more here
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Forage fish

Streamers imitation species

Golden shiner

This is a well know species that is easily identified. Key characteristics are the strongly compressed rather elliptical body, a small pointed head, strongly downward curving lateral ling, a long sickle-shaped anal fin, and a thin scaleless keel on the midline of the belly behind the pelvic fins.
More golden shiner information in this article
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Gallery

The best fly fishing pictures

Dmitriy Lesnov’s Salmon Flies

When on social media of various kinds, you bump into some very talented people now and then. Belarusian Dmitriy Lesnov is one of those talents
Read about Lesnov here
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Gear

All the misc. stuff

The Perfect Seven

Are you looking for a perfect single-hand gear set-up for salmon fishing? Here’s Nils Folmer Jorgensen’s preferred tools, how he ended there and his honest opinion on why.
See his selection here
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GFF books

The books we have made ourselves

Favorite Flies for Baltic Seatrout

In this book Martin has tried to cover his favorite fly patterns, and has included 29 of the flies that he and his best fishing friends use 90% of the time when they fish for Danish coastal seatrout.
See pictures of the book here
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Global

Destinations all over the globe

Fly-fishing Turkey

Few anglers think of Turkey as a trout fishing destination, but its unique geography has provided a hotbed for many trout species
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Patterns

All the great fly patterns, fly tying recipes. Streamers, nymphs, dry flies, salmon flies, saltwater flies.

Knotting Nymphs

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Elastic bead cord has many potential uses in fly tying; it can be used as a r...
Here's how
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Podcasts

The sound of the Global FlyFisher. Recordings from fishing trips - Fly fishing radio shows - Listen online or download as mp3's

A different podcast

There’s a surprising number of fishing podcasts out there, but this one is slightly different than most
More here
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Reels

More than a line holder

Sea Trout Gear

This article will try to point you in the right direction when choosing equipment for coastal fishing for sea trout in Denmark and the Baltic. This kind of fishing usually involves a lot of casting. A lot! So the gear has to be easy to cast with - time and time again.
Get the advice here
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Reports

Entertaining trip reports

A year’s fishing in Argentina

Argentinian Pedro Miles tells the story of his fishing in Argentina during the year 2022, and man, there’s been some fishing going on!
Read the report here
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Reviews

New and old fly fishing and tying products reviewed

Big Flies Photo Gadget

I have covered lighting flies for photography in various articles, and mentioned Siberian Ramil Yamaliev’s gadgets before. Here’s another one.
See the review here
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Rod Building

Those who build their own fly rods

Colt Actionrod Restoration

This is the story of a well used 9’0”, two-piece, eight weight glass fiber fly rod, which was given as a gift to a young, budding fly fisher, passed on from a grandfather to a grandson, but with a lot...
Read the story here
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Rods

The rods we handled

Microspey rods

An article about how spey style casting can be performed with rods rated for single hand, and how to build and line up your own microspey or micro Skagit rod.
Read more here.
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Staff

Our international contributors

Tad Murdock

Tad Murdock is a guide specializing in Fly Fishing North Georgia, who spends his time away from teaching to target the many salmonid (trout, char, salmon, and taimen) species of the world. You can fol...
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Streamer guests

Streamers Guest Section

Mike Boyer Streamers

Growing up on the West Coast, I learned about East Coast fly patterns and tyers mostly from books, and the occasional television show. I remember seeing Lee Wulff and Joe Brooks on the American Sportsman show as a youngster, fishing for Brookies.
Click here to read more
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Streamer swaps

Flies exchanged

Jim Warner Swap

Jim Warner has been one of the most influential fly tyers in New England, especially for those who spend their time trolling and fishing streamers in the many lakes and ponds of the region. The gang of the streamers@ list recently had a swap of his great fly patterns.
Click here to see the results.
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Streamer tips

Tie better streamers

The Rangely style

The Rangeley Style of streamer tying is the style used by Carrie Stevens to tie her famous Grey Ghost pattern. This unique features of this style of tying are that the wing components are assembled and glued together before attaching to the hook, and that the wings are not mounted on top of the hook shank but slightly down the sides of the hook shank.
See how to tie it here.
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Streamers

What originally was Raske's New England Streamer Page

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
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Streamers365

The streamer aficionado site that was Streamers365.com

Songo Smelt Bucktail Fly Tying Pattern

The Songo Smelt is a sweet little bucktail perfect for casting out in search of cruising landlocked salmon, brook trout and bass. The fly gets its...
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The Lab

Strange contraptions for your tippets

The Test Tube

A weird and futuristic construction from the archives. Really easy to tie... eh, make... uhm... construct... Metal, plastic and glue.
See how to go about it here
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Theme section

Sections with the best articles on certain subjects

Fly fishing knots

Instructions on how to tie knots and what knot to use for what when fishing is in huge demand. People search the whole web and this site for fishing knots, strongest knots and easiest knots. This them...
See the theme here
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Tie Better

Learn to tie better flies

Copper Braid

This type of braid is found in electronics stores, but is a great new addition to the fly tyer’s arsenal of useful copper products
See some patterns here
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Tying tools

All the fancy fly-tying gadgets

DIY dubbing brush maker

Bretislav has a little machine in his collection of fly-tying tools. It was made by his father about 20 years back.
See how to make it here
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Videos

The fly fishing videos we watch

Celebrating 10,000 videos

So, the Global FlyFisher’s video section just passed 10,000 videos. And suitably enough the 10K mark was a Davie McPhail video showing how to tie a muddler.
Read a bit more here
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What is...

Fly-fishing concepts and terms explained

What is a fly rod?

Fly rods are fishing rods built specifically for fly-fishing and are similar to any fishing rod in many ways, but also very different.
More about fly rods here
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Writings

Anecdotes, short stories, poetry... even novels

The Water’s Violin

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Poem by Jed Feffer
Greensboro, Vermont
April, 2021

The Water’s Violin
The grass is unmowed and swaying;
The currents of the river are clouded in bugs.
In hand y...
Read it here
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