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2015

Date	Title	Body	Image
Feb 7. 2015	Pacific Salmon Flies	Brief and to-the-point are the words that come to mind after I have read this book. No nonsense would also be a good choice of words.
Feb 4. 2015	Renato Rizzo	Italian artist Renato Rizzo draws beautiful, simple but still very complex and detailed black and white pictures of flies... with a lowly BIC ballpoint pen
Feb 2. 2015	The pike that stared	This was one of those fish that staid glued to my inner eye for a long time. The largest pike I ever caught gave up a very good and pretty harrowing fight.
Jan 28. 2015	School of roach	I'm not picky when it comes to fishing and any day I can catch 12-15 fish is a good day - even when the fish are humble roach.
Jan 23. 2015	My first salty pike	I love pike fishing with a fly rod, and my first encounter with pike in the salt made a lasting impression.
Jan 23. 2015	Danish Fly Festival 2015	The biennial fly show The Danish Fly Festival takes place this year in the weekend April 11th and 12th. I will be there. How about you?
Jan 20. 2015	Preventing Wing Roll in Traditional Featherwing Streamers	The traditional method of "stacking the stems" did not work for me right from the start. The wing would have a tendency to roll and make me very...
Jan 19. 2015	The LAW of attraction	I was among the lucky fly-tyers who managed to lay my hand on one of Lawrence Waldron's LAW fly-tying vises while he made them - and they could be bought at reasonable prices.
Jan 16. 2015	Spring dreams	We're in the middle of the dampest, grayest, wettest, warmest winter I can remember for a long time, and I'm dreaming of spring.
Jan 14. 2015	Jack Gartside Darkside	Jack Gartside's Darkside tied by Darren MacEachern Hook: Gaelic Supreme Mike Martinek Rangeley streamer hook 8xl, #2 Thread: Black, 6/0 Tag: Silver...
Jan 8. 2015	Big Poppey	Big Poppey - Bill Chandler Tied by: Bill Chandler Originated by: Bill Chandler Big Poppey Fly Pattern Hook: Castle Arms Heritage Allcock BG3 #2...
Jan 5. 2015	Squid Plus Three	As the year changed from 2014 to 2015, the Danish sea trout community suddenly started buzzing about squid. And I buzzed along and developed Martin's Mundane Squid, soon to become the Squid Plus Three
Jan 3. 2015	Of lead and chrome	One was lead colored and slim, one was bright chrome and in perfect condition, bot both these south Swedish sea trout were memorable.
Jan 1. 2015	Production Fly Tying

2014

Date	Title	Body	Image
Dec 31. 2014	Same same, but different	Looking back at 2014. The most popular articles and pages on the Global FlyFisher the past year looks much as it always does... with a few changes.
Dec 31. 2014	Eunan Hendron, Loydd Lutes and Larry Leight Streamers	It's the last day of 2014 and there are some really cool and unique streamers on auction. We will be posting a few more collections over the next year...
Dec 30. 2014	King of the moonfish	Moonfish are odd but fascinating creatures, and I have the honor of having been called king of the moonfish during a family trip to Florida.
Dec 26. 2014	Mangrove tarpon	I was never really taken by tarpon fishing. I've done it a few times and caught a few tarpon, but never felt the thrill that I see people get from fishing for these fish.
Dec 22. 2014	Summit opener	This was one of those days where things just worked out, and I took advantage of it and behaved slightly out of order.
Dec 18. 2014	Jewel of the Rockies	Little jewels of the mountains, greenback cutthroats cruising along the shore, easily visible from the rocks and eager to take almost anything offered.
Dec 16. 2014	Streamers 365 Volume 1-3 Now Available as Trade Edition	Good News! It may have taken quite a while, but trade editions are finally complete and available online now. The new editions feature all of the same...
Dec 15. 2014	Buying some Schwiebert flies	A story about a group buying some of the Ernie Schwiebert fly collection.
Dec 14. 2014	Lloyd Lutes Streamers and WIllis & Sons Hooks	It was a welcome surprise to see a new set of streamers for sale on Ebay from noted Canadian tyer Lloyd Lutes. Not only does he tie a mean streamers,...
Dec 14. 2014	My float tube is a sputnik	I enter the water... I enter another universe. My tube is a sputnik suspended in the space above a lunar surface of sand and stone. I'm the astronaut. The clear water is my vaccum. I turn on my mental time lock and make the first cast.
Dec 10. 2014	The man with the silver waders	This is about a steelhead - a sea run rainbow trout. We don't have wild rainbow trout here, so all rainbows we catch are escaped hatchery or sea farm fish. And most are butt ugly. But not this one.
Dec 6. 2014	My most recent decent fish	Oddly enough the first fish I thought of when I started writing this series was my most recent decent coastal sea trout, which I'm ashamed to say was caught more than four years ago.
Dec 2. 2014	Microjig nymphs and small streams	One of the ways to fish small, fast, rocky streams is Czech nymphing with microjigs.
Dec 1. 2014	Saltwater Flies	The contents of my fairly well stocked fishing book shelves bear witness to the fact that I love fly pattern books. My small book database says that I currently have 115 pattern books.
Nov 26. 2014	Streamers on Auction	I'm just back from the 2014 International Fly Tying Symposium in New Jersey with a couple new sets of streamers that will be posted in the upcoming...
Nov 26. 2014	Das große Trockenfliegen-Buch	We don't often review books in German, but it has happened. And since we do have a large German audience - the second largest after the 'merikans - it's not totally out of the way to do so.
Nov 21. 2014	Selectivity	I recently reviewed Matt Supinski's book Steelhead Dreams and was thrilled with Supinski's enthusiastic writing and his way of approaching the subject,
Nov 13. 2014	I remember that fish	In spite of having caught quite a few fish in my life, some stand out. Not the biggest, not the most spectacular, not the most difficult... just some...
Nov 6. 2014	Steelhead Dreams	A very thorough introduction to fishing for steelhead in the great lakes area in the US by renown steelhead guide Matt Supinski. Covering tactics, gear and flies as well as seasons and locations.
Nov 1. 2014	Fly-Fishing's Final Frontier	I recently reviewed the book "Flyfishing for Coarse Fish" by British Dominic Garnett, and noted in that review how untapped a resource these
Oct 24. 2014	Donald Bruce Soar - 1963 - 2014	I was shocked and saddened today to learn about our friend Don Soar passing away. Rest well dear friend. Don Soar - Dedicated angler and fly tyer Don...
Oct 22. 2014	Fishing in Grayling Paradise	The introduction to this book starts with the following paragraph "I have written many articles about the Warm Vltava river over the past ten years with detailed descriptions of particular streams
Oct 21. 2014	Takes	South African Korrie Broos has developed this "Chart of takes" to classify the takes and different methods to employ to fish for the takes or to trigger the take.
Oct 9. 2014	Trading Tales	Author Dominic Garnett went on a fly fishing trip in London with magazine editor Garrett Fallon
Oct 6. 2014	Hooks and Streamers	If the Farmer's Almanac holds any truth, we're in for a cold winter. Thankfully there have been quite a few nice hooks and flies on Ebay for those of...
Sep 29. 2014	Flyfishing for Coarse Fish	I have fished quite a bit for coarse fish with a fly in my time. Bream, perch, roach - and pike of course. I even hooked some chub that willingly rose to a dry cast to rising trout.
Sep 26. 2014	A Cache of Carrie Stevens and Bert Quimby Flies	For anyone who has been searching for a few vintage flies from the likes of Carrie Stevens and Bert Quimby, there is some wonderful news. Ebay seller...
Sep 24. 2014	Dorado	Locally it is known as "el tigre de los rios", the tiger of the rivers, and Argentina's famed Dorado is a popular and sought after gamefish.
Sep 24. 2014	Take the F...ing Fly	THE FUNK cloaks my heart, Hazes my mind, Chokes out fun, Good friends and sunshine. All for a fish That will eat that f*king fly.
Sep 22. 2014	A Bonanza for the Streamer Collector	It's been a while since I've posted flies up on Ebay, and this week has seen a number of great offerings from some of the regulars and a few new...
Sep 14. 2014	Kayak Fishing	This book isn't brand new, but has been out for several years. My copy is even second edition.
Sep 9. 2014	Threading a bobbin	Considering how simple the goal is: to get the thread through the tube of a bobbin holder, there's a surprising number of ways to do it.
Sep 9. 2014	Nymph Fly-Tying Techniques	The subtitle "Over 1,000 color photos of techniques and pattern styles" lured me into buying this book from 2001. 125 pages at 10 UK£ or about 16 US$ used made it a no-brainer.
Aug 31. 2014	Bobbin holders for fly tying	Most people use a bobbin holder when they tie flies. In spite of being a simple tool there are some pretty advanced models out there.
Aug 29. 2014	I F***ing Love Fish Science!	Scientific reports about fish and environment might not seem to be the most exciting to us anglers, but the work done by scientists is extremely important in keeping and eye on and improving our fishing waters.
Aug 27. 2014	Kayak fly-fishing - the sequel	I have been fishing in the ocean from a kayak before, but these days my motivation is not mobility but rather immobility and my needs are different.