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2021

Date	Title	Body	Image
Jan 7. 2021	Being on Instagram	Social media can be a strange experience. It's really a mixed bag. And on Instagram 40% of all anglers seem to be women!

2020

Date	Title	Body	Image
Dec 19. 2020	A heartfelt thank you!	It’s been one and a half years since I started accepting donations to keep the site running, and the support has been overwhelming!
Dec 14. 2020	Chalk and Cheese	An English flyfisher acquires a house in France - which just happens to have a chalk stream running its property
Dec 9. 2020	Fish Scaled Up	Danish fly angler and professional photographer Søren Skarby got an idea: to photograph fish like they'd never been photographed before
Dec 6. 2020	Counting newsletter openings and clicks	I have build a small Drupal-module, which enables me to see how many recipients open my newsletters and click on links in it
Dec 2. 2020	Merging Wordpress content into Drupal	There’s a bunch of modules to help importing content into Drupal. My experience is that they are inadequate, and don’t do what I need. I prefer DIY.
Nov 28. 2020	Streamers 365 joins the Global FlyFisher!	The renowned streamer aficionado site streamers365.com is shutting down, but GFF has "inherited" all its fantastic content.
Nov 20. 2020	Swimming Caddis Pupa	This ragged looking caddis pupa from the hands of Norwegian Viggo Larsson will work well on both fast and calm water
Nov 13. 2020	Simple Flies	Simple is good. Not primitive… simple. And this is another fine book with simple fly patterns.
Nov 12. 2020	Motley Flies	I recently went through my large archive of images. Suddenly I had a whole bunch of fly images. I gathered them into a small gallery.
Nov 1. 2020	Nick Mayer	Nick Mayer's watercolors are large, colorful and stunningly beautiful. Read about his journey from his childhood sketchbook to becoming a full time artist.
Oct 20. 2020	Viggo Larsson	Norwegian Viggo Larsson lived in Mo i Rana, a town in Helgeland in Northern Norway
Sep 7. 2020	Autumn Fly	A great looking and very catchy Danish sea trout fly, useful all year round in spite of the name.
Sep 4. 2020	Trophy rainbows in Slovakia	Read about Slovakian Andrej Polcic's fascination with the strong rainbow trout in his home rivers
Sep 1. 2020	Betters' Flies	Fran Betters was a creative tyer and originated several patterns that have become quite famous. Mike Hogue covers four of them in this article.
May 5. 2020	Einars’ Floating Foam Caddis Pupa	A great and high floating caddis fly made with foam as a base material and a very simple and cool technique.
Apr 14. 2020	Euro BWOs Revisited	In our continuous effort to obtain better and more practical mayfly imitations, we discovered a few new and simple solutions.
Mar 13. 2020	The GFF Interview	GFF gets too little press coverage, so I interviewed myself, and asked myself a number of intelligent questions and offered some equally brilliant answers.
Mar 3. 2020	Durable flies: Wrapping thread	The basic technique of wrapping thread over - and under - materials is a key to getting flies that will hold well
Feb 27. 2020	Durable flies: Before you tie	One key to durability in flies is to prepare a bit before starting - and choosing the right hook, thread and materials
Feb 27. 2020	Durable flies: Why?	How to tie flies that last more than a cast, a trip, a month... heck, even a year. We're starting a series of articles with some tips on tying durable flies – and keeping them intact.
Feb 24. 2020	Kavik	The Kavik is a simple zonker-based streamer, well suited for a lot of different fish, and easy to adapt in color and material choice
Feb 21. 2020	Moulin’s Deer Hair Parachute	Swiss/Norwegian tyer Fabien Moulin stumbled upon a seemingly new way of creating a parachute hackle and wing in one.
Feb 18. 2020	George Grant Nymph	US fisherman and fly tyer George Grant came up with a type of nymph where both body and hackle uses special techniques.
Jan 31. 2020	The Monster Brown Trout of Thingvallavatn	The Icelandic lake Thingvallavatn has become synonymous with monster ice age brown trout. People from all over the world come to chase their dream fish. Many have their dream come true from the first cast, others go home empty handed.
Jan 9. 2020	The Atlantic Salmon Fly	Why review a 30-year old book? Well, because it's a great book that deserves some attention.

2019

Date	Title	Body	Image
Dec 17. 2019	About getting skunked	A part of fishing is not catching anything. If you're only in it for the catching, there's something you have misunderstood.
Dec 11. 2019	Hardy’s Salmon Flies	Another massive work on classic salmon flies from UK writer Martin Lanigan-O'Keeffe, this time on the flies from the House of Hardy.
Dec 7. 2019	Reflections on the Loch	A book on UK style lake fishing for trout, written in a personal and entertaining - but still very informative - tone
Dec 3. 2019	The Gradac River in Serbia	Discover the myriad of opportunities that the Gradac River in Serbia has to offer.
Dec 3. 2019	Sasa Bencun Roka	Sasa Bencun Roka is a professional guide and fly tyer operating in Serbia.
Nov 28. 2019	Andrew Marshall	Andrew has been tying for some 35 or so years, much of that time in-hand without the aid of a vise.
Nov 28. 2019	Alan Petrucci	I have fished streamers ever since the first vacation we took to Mooselookmeguntic Lake in Rangeley Maine back in the mid 70's.
Nov 28. 2019	Hardy style reel cases	Leather maker Remus Stanescu describes the dirty work behind making a couple of Hardy style reel cases.
Nov 24. 2019	IKEA Fly Tying Board	How to make a 10 dollar tying station based on a cheap IKEA cutting board.
Nov 20. 2019	Pike Fever	Pike anglers have a new bible. This book essentially covers every conceivable aspect of pike fishing… and then some
Nov 17. 2019	The March Brown Legacy	The March Brown is one of the all time classic fly patterns, the origin of which must go back almost centuries.
Nov 17. 2019	The March Brown Odyssey	My venture into the history and legacy of the classic March Brown led to a whole lot of variations over the theme
Nov 13. 2019	Celebrating 10,000 videos	So, the Global FlyFisher’s video section just passed 10,000 videos. And suitably enough the 10K mark was a Davie McPhail video showing how to tie a muddler.
Nov 8. 2019	The Feather Bender's Flytying Techniques	When a great photographer, fly tyer and instructor writes a book, it’s likely to become a great book
Oct 26. 2019	My oldest piece of material	I have a dried hare skin, which I have owned for as long as I have tied flies. A lot of flies and a lot of wisdom has come from that skin.
Oct 18. 2019	An Italian take on Ora Smith	Italian fly tyer Giuseppe Finardi is intrigued by US Ora Smith's streamers featuring wings made almost exclusively from golden pheasant crest.
Oct 18. 2019	Giuseppe Finardi	Italian angler and fly tyer
Oct 16. 2019	Trout are stupid	A small book that debunks a lot of myths surrounding trout fishing – including the one that trout are cunning and intelligent hunters, able to trick anglers. They are not! Trout are stupid!
Oct 8. 2019	10K videos!	The number of videos on the Global FlyFisher video page is steadily closing in on 10,000!
Oct 4. 2019	Does anyone proofread this crap?	Yes, a non-native English speaker proofreads material from a host of mostly non-English amateur writers, and sometimes errors do slip through
Sep 27. 2019	Fish Art for the Stars	Brad Pitt’s New Movie Ad Astra has a Connection to Fly Fishing - and A Fly Fishing Painter’s Well Traveled and Well Lived Life
Sep 26. 2019	I'm on the air!	Dave Stewart from the podcast "Wet Fly Swing" contacted me for participation in one of his podcasts, and it’s now online to enjoy.
Sep 10. 2019	The magazine image system	The blocks of nicely laid out images on GFF has required quite a bit of work to refine.
Sep 6. 2019	The Magnus and Fred Clan	The classical Danish coastal flies Magnus and Grey Fred have been an inspiration for many derivative patterns as well as hybrids. This is their story.