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Article How to tie a hook on a tube fly Feb 17. 2024 Tubes Those of us who have fished tube flies for ages have no problem understanding the principle, but if you're new to tubes, the simple task of attaching a hook to a tube fly might seem hard to figure out. Here's how	Article GFF turns 30! Feb 5. 2024 Birthday 30 years ... thirty years, like three decades. That’s how old this site is, and that’s actually quite a feat. No fuzz.	Article Hair stackers Feb 5. 2024 Tool A bit of stacker education and stacker philosophy is due, so here it is: quite a lot of information about hair stackers Much more here
Article There's deer hair ... Jan 25. 2024 Materials ... and then there's deer hair. And it can be many different things. It is not at all that easy to find the right kind for the many patterns with this fantastic material Deer hair 101	Article Smallest Fly Page Jan 16. 2024 Micro Flies from Dutch Hans Weilenmann's 1998/99 project SFP - Smallest Fly Page - with size 32 patterns from all over the world See the images here	Article #32 Rusty Rat Jan 16. 2024 #32 #32 Rusty Rat tied by Hans Weilenman - the man behind the project Read the notes here
Article #32 Royal Coachman Jan 16. 2024 #32 #32 Royal Coachman tied by Jack Mickievicz Read the notes here	Article #32 Shuck Raider Jan 16. 2024 #32 #32 Shuck Raider tied by Irish fly tier Arthur Greenwood Story here	Article #32 Pink Sabalo Jan 16. 2024 #32 #32 Pink Sabalo tied by Andrew Lamborne See the notes here
Article #32 Pheasantless PTN (Beadhead) Jan 16. 2024 #32 #32 Pheasantless PTN (Beadhead) tied by US tier Bob Petti Read the notes here	Article #32 CDC Olive Parachute Jan 16. 2024 #32 #32 CDC Olive Parachute tied by US fly tyer Chris Knight Read the notes here	Article #32 Blue Wing Olive Jan 16. 2024 #32 #32 Blue Wing Olive (BWO) tied by US tyer Agust Gudmundson Read the notes here
Article #32 Ladybug Jan 16. 2024 #32 #32 Ladybug tied by US tier Bob Kenly Read the notes here	Article #32 Once and Away (emerger) Jan 12. 2024 #32 #32 Once and Away (emerger) tied by Dutch Hans van Klinken Read the notes here	Review The Sage of Dibbin Creek Jan 11. 2024 Novel A capturing and sometimes touching novel about a young boy whose life is formed by farming, outdoors activities and fishing
Blog entry I stopped counting Dec 11. 2023 For basically all the almost 30 years of its existence, I have been following the traffic patterns on GFF. I stopped about a year ago, and here is why.	Article #32 Wonderbody Parachute Nov 19. 2023 #32 Notes for a #32 Wonderbody Parachute tied by Dutch fly tier Henk Verhaar Read the notes here	Review Feather Mechanic II Nov 4. 2023 Patterns South African Gordon Spuy’s second book is different from the first one - but then again somewhat similar, which is a good thing.
Article Baltic flies for calm and clear water Oct 15. 2023 Water In this part of the series on different coastal conditions, we look at a common situation: water clear as gin and maybe even calm as a mirror. Not the easiest of fishing conditions, but adapting gear and flies to the situation helps. See some here	Article Doing a Step-By-Step Sep 22. 2023 Photography This article teaches you how to do a proper series of step-by-step photos of a fly pattern being tied - also known as an SBS. Good advice is found here	Review Mörrum - The Best Flies Sep 17. 2023 Salmon A really beautiful book about a very important Swedish river and - not least - a group of its most productive anglers and their flies.
Review FISK - scaled-up Sep 10. 2023 Larger This book features some stunning images of fish! It’s a Danish book, but I think it deserves some attention here anyway	Blog entry What happened to GFF? Sep 8. 2023 For a painfully long time in August 2023 the Global FlyFisher was dead and gone. Our DNS-provider stumbled and took all their clients with them in the fall.	Blog entry GFF is still alive! Sep 8. 2023 The site is back and in operation, but the downtime has led to some unfortunate errors, which I’m trying to fix as you read this

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