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2010 - Editorial - Articles, blog posts
2010 - Editorial - Articles, blog posts
What I (don't) want
In this article Martin looks at some specific production methods, which are often used by fly fishing video producers. It seems that certain little tricks or styles have become fashionable, and can be found in lots of videos – on longer DVD's as well as in shorter online videos.m
Read why he dislikes them here.
Feeding Time
A single disk! And that's it. No real DVD cover, no colorful photos, no neat booklet. Just the title printed on a white DVD.
Streamer Videos
Just a few of the best on Youtube! Nine-three Family Secret http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8WbR4WsV3c Grey Ghost...
A Passion for Tarpon
The Masters on the Fly series of books by Wild River Press (see here , here, and here) are getting harder and harder to review.
Fly Tyers
Here is a listing of the tyers who are taking part by tying streamers for the Streamers365 project.If you would like to join the ranks, please take a...
We want your Streamers!
Starting January 1, 2012, we'll be presenting a new streamer each day. Yes, I know that is over a year away, but we want to get a good head start to...
Unsinkable flies
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.
Rise in Malmo
The Rise Fly Film Festival is a great event arranged by Nick Reygeart, the guy behind the videos The Search, Tahiti and The Source series, now in its third location having covered Tasmania, Iceland an...
About Streamers 365
During 2012, we will be showcasing one feather-wing streamers a day for the entire year. The concept is called 365 blogging, but if you look at a 2012...
Fly Film Festival
The Rise fly fishing film festival will have shows in several European towns featuring the best videos
How to act right
Looking and behaving right on the water matters. Act or look the wrong way, and fellow anglers will spot you as a helpless beginner right away. This is the second chapter of two, and it will teach you what to do in order to get some stream cred.
Learn the right moves here.
Zoo Cougar
Kelly Galloup's Zoo Cougar is a pattern with some years on its back, but Martin recently discovered and started tying this staple big trout streamer. Large fly, goudy colors, deer hair! Just his kind of fly.
Follow the story here and see Galloup tying the fly on video.
Frida
Frida is the little sister of the beloved Grey Frede, and that alone is a recommendation. It's a small and compact, yet shiny fly meant for sea trout, but definitely useful for other species too - panfish in small sizes, bonefish in larger.
Tie the Frida here
The Old Line
That Maryland bank clad in stone offered no line of credit. The business, best described, was an angle of line to rock beside which a redbreast sunfish held suspended in shaded water.
Read ron P. swegman's story here
Salmon and Lobster
The aim on this trip was to explore and flyfish several rivers in the Moosehead Lake area of northwest Maine, about 50 miles from Quebec. Moosehead Lake is 40 miles long and 20 miles across at its widest. Area rivers, several of which flow into or out of the lake, hold landlocked salmon, large brook trout, and mammoth smallmouth bass.
Take the trip here
The Welded Phly
Remember the line from "The Graduate"? "PLASTICS!" The hook was dressed with thread and body braid... fine makings for a proper foundation were in place... Temperamental pheatherz were spot welded in place without complaint nor defiance...
Another innovative Pete Gray technique!
Coloring Raw Tubes
"See what you can do with these" said Stuart Anderson, who owns the Canadian Tube Fly Company to Bob Kenly who often goes berserk with tubes and epoxy. And that's exactly what Bob did. He started painting the raw tubes.
Read more about it here
Great Lakes Irish Invaders
Bob Kenly takes a turn with some tubes from the Canadian Tube Fly Company and converts a traditional Irish fly into something... let's just say not as traditional. So Chris's Irish Shrimp turned into Great Lakes Orange, a steelhead pattern tied on a tube.
See the pattern description here.
How to look good
Appearance and behavior are two very important aspects of fly fishing. Act or look the wrong way, and fellow anglers will immediately judge you as an amateur. This first chapter of two will teach you what to wear and carry.
Learn all the tricks here.
The Dream Stream
Thomas Ohman, a professional photographer who has lots of experience from making TV for the Swedish Television, takes us on a mad mans trip to the northern part of Sweden.
Fishing the Danish coast
Richard Maree, a friend of GFF and an returning participant in the GFF Summits, challenged a demanding calendar and decided to squeeze in a couple of days of fishing in Denmark this autumn. He wrote an email and sent us these photos to inspire others to go.
Get an appetizer here
Chinos!
Colombian Carlos Heinsohn ties a neat baitfish pattern made of synthetic fibers. It's a tough fly with nice movement designed for any predator which feeds on smaller fish. The pattern is more a tying principle than a specific pattern.
See lots of examples here.
Double K Reverse Spider
Kelvin Kleinman shows us how to tie a really different saltwater fly based on the freshwater spider style, adapted for cutthroat stream fishing and then reversed to become a saltwater shrimp from outer space! A very special but also efficient pattern.
Reverse yourself here.
Phloating Eyez
Eyes as large as tea cups on your flies? And still lightweight and not smashed down by loads of goo on the head? Yes, it's possible! Follow Pete Gray's instructions and your squids and baitfish will be gazing with larger eyes than ever before!
The full story here
Martin's Mundane Sand Eel
Sand eels are very common in most waters around the world. This is a very simple flatwing style sand eel that can be tied easily with very few, common materials, and make a great imitaion that is easy to cast on a light rod.
Read more here
Martin's Mundane Fly Project
This is the Mundane Fly Manifesto: Few and cheap materials, easy to find in the shops. Simple tying methods. Mundane flies. The whole idea is to make it simple and efficient to tie flies that work.
Read Martin's Mundane Manifesto here.
Ninja Toe Biter
Since we all know that "Stripahs" never eat crabs... ['get stuck on the way down!?]... Well, maybe sometimes... Follow Pete Grays easy crab tie using mesh, rubber legs, glue and sand.
Here's how
Flats in the cold
Flatwings - "the new black" in Denmark and Sweden. Are they really that good. Not too big for casting? For the trout? Will they twist? Are they better than other sand eel imitations? Are they better suited for pike? Kill your skepticism and take a
tour de flats here
Europe's New Zealand
For more than fifteen years a gang of swedes have been fishing in Slovenia for grayling, mottled trout and rainbows. Dry flies, nymphs are cast into rakija-clear streams surrounded by bright green trees, light gray rocks and snow tipped mountains.
Fly me to Europe's New Zealand
Kern's Perfect Leo Shrimp
A realistic, perfect swimming shrimp imitation for both hot and cold water and a big variety of species. The fly has many neat details and is a great upgrade from those quickly tied flies. It makes your fly box look great and keeps you away from the TV.
Get shrimped here
Metalhead
It is always hard to make a follow up. This one is no different. It has to follow up a several very successful DVDs.
The Anglers Paradise
My First Fly Hatch
This was my first serious flyfishing trip on my own. I’d done a fair amount of spin-fishing in my younger days, and had tried flyfishing a few times with a buddy or guide over the years. But now, approaching age 50, I decided to get serious about flyfishing.
Read John Schmittroth's story here
Chasing Gold
South America's Golden Dorado is famous for its beauty and its willingness to chase a fly. German Heiko Schneider has moved to Argentina and has now adapted the Dorado as his preferred quarry. Togther with his wife Carolina he chases the Dorado in the lakes.
Read his article about this fantastic fish.
Green Tide
We are used to seeing New Zealand in connection with fly fishing. The North and South Islands renowned fishing for trout is so well covered in video and text that it's almost tiresome...
Sea Trout Secrets
A set of very good Danish DVD's on sea trout fishing have been on the market for quite a while now. I covered the first two DVD's back in 2007, but since then a couple more have been published.
I h...
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