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2006 - Editorial - Articles, blog posts
2006 - Editorial - Articles, blog posts
Measuring the temperature
Is this just for nerds or do you as angler get something out of knowing how accurate you can measure the temperature? For some, knowing the temperature may change the day from a disaster to success.
Know how to measure your temperature here.
TMC Wingburner
Tired of making wings with too many divertions from time to time? See if the new tool from TMC can help you burn the wings perfectly every time or if you still have to fold and cut like an used hair dresser.
Click this burning link
Nothing...
Sometimes trout and grayling sip "nothing" from the surface. You have tried the smallest parachute in your fly box - size 18. What they are taking is much smaller. You look again into your fly box, and right - there is no "Nothing" there.
Fill up your fly box with nothing here
Wasp Year
It has been a hot and dry summer in Scandinavia. Wasps have been a plague in many areas. They have been in every apple, every drink and every house. Some of them may have crossed a stream or river, winding up on the surface before continueing the rush. Some of them never left again.
Read and get stung here.
CDC Mayfly
A small mayfly, which may be (mis)taken for a dun during the sometimes the concentreted hatches on late August and Septemper evenings. It uses a hollow extended body, parachute hackle and wings of cdc stems to float high.
Get the recipe for a hi-floating mouthful here.
Not quite
Here in Denmark we have now had the 40th day with what is referred to as "bathing temperatures". That is when the ocean water averages above 19 deg. C or about 66 deg. F over 24 hours.
For people w...
Hot
Current Weather: 105.8 °F / 41.0 °C Clear Beaverkill and Willowemoc both too hot to fish. Best to just leave the fish alone this time of year, as the fishing stresses everything. Ugh
The Trout Bum Diaries
A fantastic DVD packed with sizzling fly fishing action from Patagonia edited like a snowboard or extreme sports video with hefty music, fast cutting and lots of pace.
The Plipper
One of the strangest fly-contraptions ever to see daylight from my hands. It's a tube fly. It uses one basic material. It's tied without thread. It's ugly, but it works. It's a popper with a lip - a Plipper.
Learn how to construct it here
The Italian Job
Is it possible to combine a hotel with swimming pool, enjoy the company of your family and yet fish for grayling and trout? Tuscany offers plenty of activities for the ones not fishing. This report is for those who do fish... Read Kasper Mühlbachs story from a hot day in a cold Italian river
right here
Fly Fishing for Mullet
Mullet Fever The mullet season is here in the Baltic, and this excellent DVD just turns the mullet fever up several degrees.
Flood
Earlier this week, the drainages of the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers got a deluged by rain and were hit with historic floods. I got back from a tour of Roscoe and Livingston Manor area just a few m...
Mullet hunting!
I have been out looking for mullet on a couple of occasions already this season, but only found them one of the days. They were cruising close to the shore as they sometimes do and gave a couple of ho...
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
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
Jump!
Getting a picture of a jumping fish is not as easy as you may think. You need preparation, skill, timing the right gear and some luck too. Read more about catching fish in the air in this latest article on better fishing photos.
Learn it in Martin Joergensen's article here
Mel Krieger
Arrangements with casting instructions are quite common, and more and more manufacturers and shops support their product sales by having good casters demonstrate and teach their skills.
Not long ag...
Ad Swier
Dutch Ad Swier is not only a pike fanatic beyond the ordinary but also an artist extraordinaire. His beautiful drawings and paintings have been used in books, calanders and magazines all over the world. We convinced Ad to participate in our series on Fishy Artists.
The result can be seen in this article.
Rod Sutterby
Rod Sutterby gave us a taste of his beautiful paintings in the book Atlantic Salmon done in cooperation with Malcolm Greenhalgh. In connection with a new series of articles about "Fishy artists" here on GFF we contacted the artist.
See his answers to our questions and some samples of his beautiful art.
Diane Michelin
Canadian watercolor artist Diane Michelin has been painting for 15 years. "Basically, in each painting, I try to tell a story that represents the day to day events that fuel our passion." as she says in this article presenting her paintings.
See Diane Michelin's beautiful art here
Joe Kissane
Joe Kissane is an Engineering Geologist now living in Chicago, Illinois.
Among his fly-fishing interests are technical elements of leader design and fly selection. He began fly-fishing in the 1960s ...
See Joe's bio here
Cheap Lazy Bastard
Named the Cheap Lazy Bastard because the originator, Joe Kissane, uses cheap materials whenever possible, takes shortcuts (because he's lazy) and the fly is a bastard – the original pattern mated illicitly with the body of any number of famous nymphs.
See how to tie it here
Compose
Vanishing points, golden sections, rule of thirds. Oh yes, image composition is full of mathematics and geometry. Here's how you can apply it all to your fishing photography. You can even test your own pictures' composition.
Learn how in this article
Flycasting Faults & Fixes
For those who have seen Mel Krieger - either in real life or on video - this is not new: the man is a one-man theater!
Miscellanea Emerger
The idea of Joe Kissane's Miscellanea Emerger is based on the idiom of "throwing in everything but the kitchen sink; however, he couldn't justify the length of "everything but the kitchen sink" for a pattern name, and someone told him that the name Kitchen Sink was already used
...so there you have it
Bumpy GFF
We're currently trying to clean out a whole lot of old and bad code on GFF and that will give a few bumps on the road. We're trying to track down all errors, but many escape us. Please let us know if ...
Forum down
Due to some maintenance and restructuring of our database, we have had to bring the forum down for repairs.
The new way of doing things for the rest of the site has reduced the load on our server ...
Underexpose
This might sound like a strange piece of advice, but GFF partner Martin Jorgensen writes: "Trust me: you generally want to underexpose your digital images. Almost every single one of them. "
Read why in this newest article on getting better fishing pictures.
Modern Spey Casting
Casting trio, The Pefect Cast - Distance and Delicacy - Cracking the Code
These three DVD's on casting and salmon fishing are quite an odyssey through these subjects and at the same time a journey almost as far around the world as you can come.
A Fine Fish
In my part of the world, rainbow trout are exotic fish. They certainly are not native to NY waters and are rarely stocked in streams or rivers. In fact, the only river I know in NY that got stocked with rainbow trout was the Black River in the southern Adirondacks, but the discovery of Whirling Disease may have affected that stocking program. I have not caught a Black River rainbow trout in a few years, so I don't know if they are still there or not.
The Rise
This past weekend, I met a couple friends for a day's fishing on Willowemoc Creek. I was walking back to join the crew when I decided to fiddle with my new camera awhile. You see, one bugaboo picture for me with my other camera was any picture that featured a dark shaded shoreline. The camera usually compensated for the darkness and the photo would be ruined.
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