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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!
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Books

All you ever wanted to read about fly fishing and tying

Optic Flies

With names that sounded fresh, in-your-face and downright sexy, the Optic Fly series entered the stage like a warm summer wind in the 1960’s cold war era.
Read a book excerpt here
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Fish Better

Become a better fly fisher

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.
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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

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
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Gear

All the misc. stuff

DIY Vacuum Rod Holder

You can buy ready-made rod holders for your car, but you can also go the DIY way and get some excellent holders for a very fair price.
Find the instructions 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

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
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Patterns

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

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
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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

Podcast intro

Go fishing with Global Flyfisher on your mp3-player, your iPod or just download our podcast to your computer and listen. The first test is up, and you can enjoy 20 minutes on a cold Danish January-coast with GFF partner Martin Joergensen and his dog.
Read more about our podcast 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

Adirondack Summer

Mountains, rivers, lakes, brooks and ponds. Loads of wildlife. A total of 6 million acres designated as "Forever Wild" ready to explore and fish.
Mike Hogue gives lots of advice here.
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Reviews

New and old fly fishing and tying products reviewed

Flies Photo Gadget

I stumbled over this gadget on Facebook, where Russian fly tyer, inventor and photographer Ramil was advertising it for sale under the phrase Photography system "Flies photo gadget".
Ramil – whose pe...
Read a review here.
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Rod Building

Those who build their own fly rods

Reel seats and reel feet

Why is it that some reels simply don't fit some rods? There is a standard of course... but not all manufacturers seem to follow it.
Dive into the details 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

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
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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

Wooly Bugger Patterns

One of the most common, popular, effective. easiest and widespread patterns in the world. All our best articles on Woolly Buggers are gathered in this theme.
See the theme here
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Tie Better

Learn to tie better flies

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
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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

Trout Bohemia

“I need to go away for a while. Let’s put some time and space into this.” Read the first chapter of Derek Grzelewski's book Trout Bohemia.
Find it here
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