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Article Light Curing Resins Mar 15. 2012 Glue If you're still messing with epoxy, lift your head from the vice and discover the new Light Curing Resins also known as LCR's or UV Resins. More about New Age Epoxy.	Article Favorite Flies for Baltic Seatrout Mar 6. 2012 Self-published 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	Article Seatrout flies for 2012 Mar 3. 2012 Flybox filling The seatrout season will soon be upon us here in northern Europe, and Martin thought he'd expand his horizon a bit and add some new seatrout patterns to his flybox before the 2012 season. See what patterns Martin chose here
Article Upgrading the Gold Ribbed Hare’s Ear Feb 16. 2012 Buggy It might seem futile to try to improve one of the world's most proven patterns, but there's room for improvement. Trevor Morgan gives some classics an overhaul. Se them here	Article How to submit a pattern to GFF Feb 9. 2012 Contribute Occasionally visitors ask whether they can contribute a fly pattern to this site, and the answer is a clear and loud YES! Read how to do it here	Article Oatman's Silver Darter Jan 16. 2012 Step by Step Someone asked me how to create the "slightly tapered" body on an Oatman Silver Darter and it was pretty difficult to describe in words, so I tied up a sample and took some photos along the way. Here for your enjoyment is a Lew Oatman favorite, the Silver Darter Click here to read more
Article The Killer Mantis Jan 4. 2012 Epoxy Who else than epoxy wizard (and madman) Bob Kenly would take on tying... eh, building... eh, constructing a Mantis Shrimp as a fly? Follow the project this article where you can read Bob's story about the fly and see pictures of the process and the finished fly. Join in here	Article Jack Plotts' Foam flies Dec 25. 2011 Foam These foam flies were sent to us 10 years ago, and this article has been long underway... High time we did something about it! Digging into the digital archives we found this bunch of crazy foam flies. See them here	Article Everyday Fly Tying Tips Dec 14. 2011 Tie Better I am as likely to sit down and tie six different flies as I am to tie six of the same pattern. Speed is not a concern, but I don't want to waste my time either. There are things I can do to make my life easier which may be different from a professional production tyer. Click here to read more
Article Major Traherne's flies Sep 1. 2011 Full dressed Back in 2000 the Danish Fly tier, Kim Rasmussen compiled all Major John Popkin Traherne's beautiful salmon fly dressings into one poster, and now, more than 10 years later The Global FlyFisher can show all these beautiful flies. See them all here.	Article Tying with CDC Aug 31. 2011 Duck's arse Dutch Hans Weilenmann tells the history of the use of CDC feathers in fly tying, covers the different types of feathers and their use and lists both CDC tying tips and a bunch of CDC patterns. Take a CDC lesson here	Article The CDC & Elk family Jul 16. 2011 Improving the best Hans Weilenmann's CDC & Elk is a fly as good as they come. Still a lot of people - including Hans himself and the author - have made variations. This article covers a whole bunch of CDC & Elk variations. Meet the family here
Article DIY brushes and combs Jul 10. 2011 DIY These are some of the least expensive and most useful fly tying tools you can make yourself. A Velcro stick, a brush and a comb made from strips of Velcro, pieces of wood, hair combs and even ice lolly sticks! See how to here.	Article The Bloody Zonker Jun 17. 2011 Variation This fly is a bright and tasty looking bite of feathers and fur that can sometimes be the key to luring a big trout. It's a variation of a variation of the Bloody Butcher. Lots of tying steps and tips here	Article Unsinkable flies Nov 27. 2010 Floating David Cowardin's concept for preventing flies from sinking is slightly different—as are his flies. They are different creatures! Most anglers can put a name on them, but the way they are tied... or more like built. Different is not quite enough to say that these are not like your average dry fly. Learn why here.

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