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2017 - Editorial - Articles, blog posts
2017 - Editorial - Articles, blog posts
Tying Alberta Al's The Canada Streamer
The Canada streamer is another pattern from streamer tyer Alan "Alberta Al" Grombacher. The Canada is Alan's ode to the famous red and white daredevil...
Tying Alan Grombacher's Maligne Special
The Maligne Laker's red and olive wing is an absolute slammer for fishing mountain brook and rainbow trout. Alan "Alberta Al" Grombacher designed the...
Preserving old URLs
I'm surprised how little web publishers cherish their old URLs. When I browse old links to the outside from our articles, I constantly meet 404-pages. I value GFF’s old web-addresses, and here's how I maintain them.
Narova Foam Beetle
Russian Dmitri Tseliaritski's Narova foam dry fly is an easy and robust pattern template for terrestrials, beetles in particular
See how to tie it here.
Boys' day out
This is a 10 year old trip report that I happened to read again and decided to make into a small article.
Read the story here.
Ancient Pike Flies
Fly fishing for pike certainly seems to have been a popular in central Europe during the late middle ages
Get a history lesson here
Capital Fishing
Many anglers travel on business from city to city. But that might not rule out a guided fishing trip!
Fish along in Berlin here
Tying Carrie Stevens' Shang's Special
Shang's Special is one of 3 streamer patterns named in honor of Charles E. Wheeler by Mrs. Stevens. I've put together a tutorial on how I tie this...
Salmon fishing in south Patagonia
When you say King Salmon, most people will think about locations in the Pacific Northwest and the famously renowned salmon bonanzas - and rightly so. Only a select few will think about South American Patagonia!
Lots of big fish here.
To like or not to like
Facebook is a strange universe. A fantastic resource and at the same time a source of endless, useless noise.
The Road less Traveled
A long comment to a video developed into a full fledged illustrated article about a nice trip to Chilean Patagonia.
Read the story here.
Why tying with others is great
Meeting up with a bunch of people and tying flies together doesn't just provide good company, but also education - and an easy shortcut to new fly names
Gavin Erwin
South African artist Gavin Erwin paints wonderful pictures of fish and fishing - some colorful and abstract, some very naturalistic.
See his pictures here
Rocky Mountain Tadpole
Darren ties the Rocky Mountain Tadpole during a live Youtube tying demo. Below are some shortcut links to various parts of the fly if you want to skip...
Tying the Black Ghost Marabou
The Black Ghost Marabou is a simple to tie fly that is a killer on both lake and stream. The Black Ghost has it's roots in Maine's Rangeley region and...
Do me a favor, kiss your spouse
It has been brought to my attention that my post about not postponing your fishing trips has caused a bit of friction in some relationships. I need to set a few things straight.
Orange Trim
This is a simple streamer, which was one of the first decent flies I ever put together myself. I still like it and enjoy tying it.
Learn how to tie it here.
Raccoon
Raccoon – or Vaskebjørn – is a highly successful and good looking Norwegian sea trout fly.
See how to tie it here.
The mothers’ yarns
I have recently had a pretty decent injection of fly tying material to my stock. I call it the mothers’ yarns because it came from my own mother and my mother-in-law.
Garfish!
The Baltic garfish or needlefish appears in colossal numbers each spring and is a great joy to target with a fly - and a delicacy to eat.
Learn more here.
Getting review ratings shown on Google
Google can pick up quite a lot of structured information from your site, and you can help by presenting it correctly
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.
Stefano Farkas' salmon flies
I received an email from Italy with a couple of pictures of some beautiful full dressed salmon flies. It came from Stefano Farkas. Stefano had been a frequent GFF visitor for many years and commented ...
See the images here
Short hook, long wing
A lot of flies are tied on very short hooks, still featuring quite long bodies/wings to imitate small fish. This article looks into that style.
See some examples here
Tying the Edson Dark Tiger Bucktail Streamer
The Edson Dark Tiger is a pattern developed by Bill Edson of Portland, Maine. The bucktail streamer is great for the NE landlocked salmon, brook...
Karel Liška
Karel Liška was huge in many ways, the pioneer of Czech fly fishing who was also a beekeeper, liked tarot games and was an virtuoso zither player.
Read about the great Czech here.
Foam Snail
Snails can be surprisingly high on the trout menu, and a snail imitation can sometimes be a key to success - on stillwaters and ponds in particular.
See how to tie it here
Larry Leight Streamers on Auction
There are currently more than 20 of Larry Leight's streamers up for auction on Ebay. Ebay user Vanderbeck29 has this series of flies listed. Most of...
The Fly Fisher
A large and beautiful book about the concept of fly fishing covering the subject from many angles, lavishly illustrated with amazing photos.
A leather folder for your flash
This small DIY article shows you how to make a leather folder or jumbo-wallet for convenient flash storage.
See how to make it here.
Russian Wasp
Russian fly tyer Dmitri Tseliaritski from St. Peterburg ties some mean looking imitations. Here's an example of his foam wasps
See how to tie it here
The Path of the Jaguar
This is a film project that aims to highlight the value of some of Colombia 's main river systems, which have been hidden and protected for half a decade, and you have the opportunity to support the project.
Simply coastlines
The spring gallery this year is a simple collection of pictures of Danish coastlines. It might be simple, but the variation is amazing and almost endless.
See the pictures here.
Node number 50,000
Just the other day the Global FlyFisher crossed the 50,000 node nid mark in the database. GFF is a large site, but still far from any boundaries set by Drupal.
Tierra del Fuego
German Florian Baumann had Tierra del Fuego in Argentina on his "really itching list". This spring he scratched the itch.
Read the story here.
Springulated flies
So you thought you'd rediscovered the wheel, the deep plate and pre-sliced bread when you discovered articulated flies? Think again! Springulated flies is where things are going.
Read more here.
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