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Article Fishing the Muddler Minnow May 10. 1998 Tactics The muddler can double as a serviceable grasshopper, cricket or even damselfly nymph. One can fish it dry and doped up, damp, wet and sunk.	Article Cod on a flyrod Jan 1. 1998 How to get cod on a flyrod - the once so common Gadus morhua - Danish inshore species. See it here	Article New York Salmon fishing Nov 16. 1997 Local Although there are a couple rivers in New York with the name "Salmon River", only one has an international reputation. That is the Salmon River that flows into Lake Ontaria near Pulaski, a small town along the lake's eastern shore. Read on here
Article My summer salmon fishing Oct 15. 1997 Salmon My salmon fishing is different from most everyone else's. At least, that's what I'm told. And since the literature around salmon fishing is based on "everyone else's" salmon fishing, I thought I'd tell you a little about mine. Optimally, my kindred spirits out there will read this and feel right at home. Read on here	Article Making a wading staff Apr 22. 1996 Home made Here's the recipe for making a 'Totally Cool' Wading Stick - Danish Kind. What most people call a wading staff. It's easy	Article Juro Mukai's shooting head setup Apr 20. 1996 Interchangable Juro Mukai is a old aquaintance from the Flyfish@ mailing list. I had the pleasure of fishing with him in the Seattle area, and was intrigued by the 'modular' line setup that he uses on his two hand spey rod for steelhead. See Juro's line system here
Article Twined or furled leaders Apr 1. 1996 DIY How to make a great furled leader using the ancient method of rope making. See how to make them here	Article C&R of salmon Jan 10. 1996 Freedom This is some advice that Backwater Bob posted on the FLYFISH@ ListServer. It's good and sound advice for salmon fishers as well as anybody else that wants to C&R fish. Get good advice here	Article The landing net for the coast May 12. 1995 Masked I often wonder what US fishers do if they stumble on a really big fish that they want to net. I'm aware that many fishers land many - if not all - of their fish with the hands. I use the hands for all but the largest. But still it must happen that fishers strike on a brown trout or rainbow is much too big for these small snow shoe nets.
Article Catch & Release May 1. 1995 Not endangered The fish in the Danish sea are in no way endangered by rodfishers. Nets are another story, though, but still fish are abundant, and therefore we Danes almost always bring home fish. Small fish are illegal to catch, but many fishermen release a lot of their catch. But no-kill and pure C&R is not common on the Danish shores.	Article Ice cold tubing Dec 29. 1994 Salt As some of you might have noticed from my recent postings I'm becoming more and more fond of my float tube, and this trip would be a tube one too. All my favoutite wading spots are iced down anyway. The weather here has been very cold lately and the fjords, which are normally the water of choice for the winter, are unfishable.