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2003
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Great rod gizmo!

The Magnetic Rod Guard from Tight Line Enterprises will solve more than the problem of keeping your rod out of harms way while you finish up by your car. A neat and simple product to solve a very common problem.

Flyline Maintenance 101

Maintaining that expensive string coated with plastics and polymers is the best medicine for adding years of life your flyline. Consider cleaning flylines after every 3-5 uses or when the water is particularly dirty.

Better-Winged Olives

A recent tying binge left me with a few thoughts on how to tie a quicker and better blue-winged olive mayfly. The ideas aren't necessarily new, but they certainly are worth sharing.

Mayflies: Top to Bottom

First things first - I really enjoyed this book.

The LL Bean Ultimate Book of Fly Fishing

The L.L. Bean Ultimate Book of Fly Fishing is comprised of three previously published books - Dave Whitlock's Fly-Fishing Handbook, Macauley Lord's Fly-Casting Handbook, and Dick Talleur's Fly-Tying Handbook.

Taking Trout

Geez—with a subtitle like that, what more is there that can be said?

Trout from Small Streams

It seems that big fish, big rivers, and monster hatches catch all the headlines these days - especially what is found on the huge tailwaters below the many dams that have been built over the years.

Baby Buggers

Wooly buggers are one of the all time most effective fish catching flies. However, if you think you need heavy tackle and lots of lead to get them to work - think again. Peter Frailey tells about his "Baby Buggers", and how well they cast and fish.

The Gentlemen's Society of Angling

At only 126 pages, this quick read will have your mind absorbed in the genesis and exodus of The Gentlemen's Society of Angling.

Montana Trout

Craig Fellin, owner of Big Hole Outfitters in Montana, tells how a first time flyfisher can spend a week working with an experienced guide learning most aspects of the sport at his or her own pace. "By the end of the week, you should have a mastery of the sport" he writes.

The Riffling Hitch

A whole book about a very special fishing technique for salmon and steelhead by one of the sport's most well known authors.

LR Dyer

Luke - or LR as he's better known - is an avid salmon angler fishing mostly off the banks of the Miramichi and Kedgwick Rivers in New Brunswick, Canada.

Dry-Fly Patterns for the New Millenium

The flies represented vary from classics tied by recognized experts to contemporary patterns, terrestrials, and extra-terrestrials.

Rotary vices

This section of Tie Better will deal with rotary fly tying vices. I will try to explain what a true rotary vice is, what its advatnages are and how it can be used in different steps of fly tying.

Tying Flies with CDC

A history of CDC in fly tying, as well as a wealth of patterns and techniques.

A Fly Fisher's Reflections

A compilation of articles and essays from one of the finest trout fishermen in the world.

Grayling trip

A small trip for grayling in the southern part of Denmark. Not something that will go over in history, but certainly a nice trip with beautiful sights and beautiful fish.

Tying Flies the Paraloop Way

My first thought was probably the same as yours - what is "paraloop"? Paraloop is part technique, part style. Take a piece of a parachute, a bit of a thorax dun, and some thoughts of a comparadun, mix, and you'll arrive at a paraloop.

Real Enough!

A bunch of quite realistic flies by a bunch of well known and unknown international tiers. These fantastic flies are not super realistic imitations, but they certainly look real and convincing enough to fool both men and fish!

Choice pike fishing tool

The Sirrus COMATRIX 9 wt. is in many ways the perfect pike fishing tool - able to lift and cast large and heavy flies, and with one serious butt section. Dutch Henk Verhaar test fished it in his favorite pike waters and was very pleased.

Fall Streamers

Looking for some juicy streamers to swing in your favorite trout stream or pond in the coming Fall? Check out these attractive flies from a streamer swap hosted by Scott Daskiewich.
2002
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Garret Booth

I grew up in Upstate New York. My father taught me the basics of fly fishing and tying. He also taught that the sport can be your passion, livelihood, therapy, and hobby.

Chris Del Plato

Chris is a streamer afficionado who contributes to GFF.

Realistic Flies

Realistic flies are not only for the display case. As Steve Thornton shows us, realism can also be applied to practical and effective fishing flies. Trout and grayling beware!

Monic Light Green

Cold weather lines are slowly becoming as common as the special lines for tropical fishing. GFF partner Martin Joergensen has fished one from Monic and liked it very much.

Ghost Reindeer Shiner

This article should rightly be subtitled "what to do when you don't have the right material that a pattern calls for?"

Lamar Reel Seats

Andy Dear hits a home run with his custom reel seat spacers and complete reel seats. It's a rare thing for a product to get a "Global Class" GFF rating, but Andy's woodworking skills earn him that high honor easily.

Lake Erie Shiner

Lake Erie Shiner is a Killing Bucktail from the vise of Floyd Franke

The Curtis Creek Manifesto

You will have to look a long way for a better and funnier introduction to fly fishing, which at the same time can serve you as a fly fishing mini-bible for many years.

Venneri's Reel Seats

Recently, GFF partners Bob Petti and Steve Schweitzer had the chance to visit Bob Venneri at his house and get a look-see into his workshop and how his seats are made, by hand, one at a time.

Screwhead Matuka

GFF partner Martin Joergensen has been fooling aruond with Bidoz Products brand new Kameleon Heads. These aluminium heads screw onto almost any straight eye hook - such as the one on the Screwhead Matuka.

The Making of a Prize Rod

The grand prize for the Flymeister 2001 contest was a custom built fly rod made by Neal Hall, owner of Classic Destiny rods and president of the Custom Rod Builder's Guild.

Beyond beauty

"Land of Little Rivers, A Story in Photos of Catskill Fly Fishing" by Austin McK. Francis scores a Global FlyFisher Global Class mark in Bob Petti's review. Read about the book whose beauty is only exceeded by the majesty of the subject.

The Mörrum Circus

Fishing for huge Atlantic salmon in the Swedish river Mörrum is an experience that makes you urge for more. GFF partner Martin Joergensen went there for four days in June 2001 and cannot wait to return.

Advanced Fly-Fishing Techniques

Lefty takes us from soup to nuts and offers us his opinions on many things flyfishing related.

Extreme Flyfishing

Want a great and affordable gift for a flyfisherman - or a little treat for yourself?

Essential Skills - 6 volumes

I first heard of - or rather saw - Oliver Edwards videos on a cd that was packaged with the British magazine Fly Fishing & Fly Tying. The cd featured some short cuts from the six tapes.

Fly line anatomy

My fly line doesn't understand me! And I don't understand it... This article tries to explain tapers, densities, coatings, memory and all the terms used for these expensive pieces of string.

Kim Conrad

Danish photographer and publisher

Fly Fishing the Pacific Inshore

Ken Hanley has done it again - and beat himself at it: made a book about the less traditional fly fishing in the salt.

Saltwater Fly-Casting Techniques

A no-frills treatise to teach us "how to cast effectively for the biggest fish under the most demanding situations".

Selecting a kayak

I have seen many recommendations - many different recommendations - and I must admit that I personally hesitate to recommend any particular type, make or model of kayak.

Kayakfishing

This is the first book I have found dealing entirely with fishing from a kayak.

Quick-Seine

"Where have I been? Why didn't I use this before?!". The Quick-Seine is not a new product on the market as it won the Top Ten new product award at the 1996 International Fly-Tackle Dealer show,

Bamboo part 6

Now that we have our strips of bamboo tapered into sections for our fly rod, the next step is to glue these strips together into whole rod sections.

Becoming a Fly Fisher

If you want to know who's who and where's where, John Randolph is the guy to learn from

Catch that fish

With cover texts such as "When to fish and where to cast" and "How to match the perfect fly" the promises are piling up in this wonderful book from 1999.

Poul Jorgensen, USA/Denmark

Tough rod!

You do not get to fish a 12 weight one hand rod every day. GFF partner Martin Joergensen has had the pleasure of field testing a Sirrus 12 wt - an impressing rod at a very good price.

Rainshadow Xcel

Not only do all the major rod companies sell their blanks, there are several companies that produce and sell only blanks. Where to begin? Rainshadow might be one choice. Great, afordable blanks.

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