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2003
Date Title Body Image

Rainbows galore

The first autumn day was a feast!

The Great Nymph Project

Mass Production, on a Minor Scale

Beware Rust

Caught in the nick of time

Autumn season begins

The autumn is here. Temps are dropping, casting arms are rising.

Trophies on Display

NYS DEC's finest

Framing flies

Had some fun framing flies today

New Rods

Some upcoming reviews

Soccer Practice

The mind wanders

Chill in the air

Could Fall be near?

Chill in the water

Just returned from a swim - it was cold!

All work and no play

I long to fish

Iceland

What a nice place!

A Man May Fish

Another book on the pile

Fishing and Cameras

To take, or not to take

New Zealand

I wanna go there!

Chub and bream

Species less thought off

Orvis CFO Discontinued?

Please, say it isn't so

Catskill Flea Market

Anyone Going

Fun with slides

Checking out old pics is great fun

Denver Tackle Dealer Show

I wish I could go there...

Still warm

The water is still more suitable for swimming than for fishing.

Interesting tools

Mike Hogue has stuff on the way

First GFFBlog entry

This is the first entry at all...

Second for the same day

Taking shape

C&F tube body tool

The C&F extended tube body tool is more than two darning needles in a fancy holder. If you - like Dutch Henk Verhaar - like doing it yourself, this might be worth looking into. The flies tied with extended bodies can become very realistic and still be simple to tie.

River Mandal

”I hate to ask you, but do you want to go salmon fishing for a week?” The voice of GFF partner Partin Joergensen's friend Ole sounded sincere enough and Martin went with him to Norway to fish for small salmon. But the outcome turned out to be a lot larger than standard grilse.

Spring 2003 pictures

Fishing on the Danish coast during the spring months - March, April, and May - can be a true blessing. Many species are about, but particularly sea trout and garfish can be plenty and easy to catch. This small gallery shows some scenes from Denmark this spring.

SHCZCDNTM

Yep! It's yet another one of that Danish madman's muddlers. This time with an even longer name: The Short Heavy Chicago-Zürich-Copenhagen Delayed Nutria Tube Muddler or SHCZCDNTM for easier remembering!

Bert Quimby

Another entry in the continuing series of features highlighting the flies of the founders of the art of streamer tying. Bert Quimby is not as well known as many, but his flies are just as beautiful and original.

Colorado camaraderie

Things to do near Denver -- not when you are dead but actually when you are very much alive and ready for some fishing adventures. Follow Kasper Mühlbach and GFF partners Steve Schweitzer and Martin Joergensen on a trip.

Mike Martineks Rangeley Streamers

Internationally known streamer tyer Mike Martinek shares some of his flies

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!

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