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1996

Date	Title	Body	Image
Jan 18. 1996	The Essence of Flycasting	This book is very stylish, kind of mellow in the visual tone and held in beautiful B/W. People who have met Krieger (or seen his videos) will know that he is not excactly B/W. On the opposite: he's a colorfull, enthusiastic, noisy, acting-all-kinds-of-roles type of instructor.
Jan 12. 1996	Mysid	Wanna tie a mysis? This might be the pattern... Small, easy to tie. It can even stand in for a small dragonfly nymph.
Jan 10. 1996	C&R of salmon	This is some advice that Backwater Bob posted on the FLYFISH@ ListServer. It's good and sound advice for salmon fishers as well as anybody else that wants to C&R fish.
Jan 1. 1996	Bas Verschoor	It's a great honor to have Bas a s a writer here. For as it will be obvious from his biography below, he is a very respected and active fly tyer on the international scene. Bas ties flies professionally, although he most certainly cannot make a living from it.
Jan 1. 1996	CDC&Elk	Hans Weilenmann's classical contemporary sedge fly.
Jan 1. 1996	Pardon my Backcast	WARNING: I enjoy good humor. If you don't care for silly wit and prose, you won't agree with my review. Stop here and read something more serious on GFF.

1995

Date	Title	Body	Image
Dec 28. 1995	Stacking material	When stacking materials it is important to consider it as consisting of more than just one process. There are several steps involved: material selection, cleaning and preparing, selecting the right tool and performing the stacking process itself.
Dec 14. 1995	Small muddler	Muddlers are a type of flies that I love to tie and fish with. And they also catch fish. In my small story from the Danish summer night, you can read what this small modest muddler can do. A fly I had a fair success with
Dec 1. 1995	Surf zone fishing	We at GFF wish that more people made books like this: small and affordable and right on the target. Ken Hanley's small classic has been reprinted
Nov 1. 1995	US North West fishing	These are some pictures from my visit to the North West - Seattle, where I had the pleasure of fishing with some very nice people in the early winter 1995.
Oct 14. 1995	Magnus Classic	A great Danish fly for sea trout - The classic Magnus
Sep 10. 1995	Full Metal Jacket Nutria Muddler, variations	This fly is in a way my 'signature fly'. It's a beautiful fly (in my own humble opinion), and even though it's heavy - very heavy, actually - it's a good fishing fly, that dives deep and overcomes current and turbulence.
Aug 20. 1995	Aquatic trout foods	The book is actually quite systematic. Dave Whitlock deals with all important fresh water trout food species; from mayflies, caddisflies and stoneflies to fish, scuds, shrimps and leeches. Every group is descibed in detail: life cycle, which is very important to understand -- especially when it comes to insects, morphology, habitus and how to imitate them.
Jun 26. 1995	How to dress salmon flies	This is a very quotable book. I like short, concentrated books, that don't waste too much time on repetitions and smalltalk. Mr. Pryce-Tannatt is a writer just after my heart, when it comes to that. He does not beat around the bush and talk in length about things that don't concern the subject.
Jun 23. 1995	Striper Moon	This small book has made me a striper fan. The subtitle gave me the first hint that this would be interesting
Jun 13. 1995	Sepp Fuchs' Gallery	Dutch fly fisher and tyer Sepp Fuch's pictures.
Jun 12. 1995	One summer night	Saturday evening was as Saturday evenings often are in the summer: kids playing outside, tidying the kitchen, having a cup of coffee and just looking out the window. Outside my kitchen window, I can see my 'wind tree'. My guess is that all Danish coast fishermen have a wind tree or something like it: a flag, a chimney -- something to judge the wind from. Force and direction.
Jun 1. 1995	Sea trout	The key to success in the pursuit of sea trout in salt water on the coasts of the Baltic Sea is understanding some important aspects of the trout's behavior in respect to the seasonal changes. The sea trout i salt water can't be fished the same way all year. Some key factors here are water temperatures, currents, the wind and the trout's migratory patterns.
Jun 1. 1995	Species to catch in Denmark	Part of this section is the manuscript for chapter in a book on fly fishing in salt water in Northern Europe. The subjects covered here are also covered elsewhere on this web site. Each page contains links to all relevant pages on The Global Fly Fisher.
Jun 1. 1995	Garfish	The garfish is a very common guest in many Northern European countries. It is normally a pelagic fish whose migration pattern is not known in detail. But one thing is for shure: these fish will return to spawn in shallow and rich areas along the coasts many places in Europe.
Jun 1. 1995	Cod	Cod and similar species are a much underrated quarry for the fly fisherman. In places where it's very common like Denmark and Norway, they are even sometimes considered an annoying disturbance in the much 'finer' fishing for sea trout. But cod can be an excellent game for the fisher whose gear and mind is tuned in on it, and the abundance and size of fish can easily justify a more focused fishing for cod.
May 23. 1995	The World's Best Trout Flies	This is a book that I bought when attending a very well set up fly tying arrangement here in Denmark just after new year, and already at the arrangement I met two of the tyers featured in the book: Oliver Edwards (UK) and Mogens Espersen (Denmark).
May 12. 1995	The landing net for the coast	I often wonder what US fishers do if they stumble on a really big fish that they want to net. I'm aware that many fishers land many - if not all - of their fish with the hands. I use the hands for all but the largest. But still it must happen that fishers strike on a brown trout or rainbow is much too big for these small snow shoe nets.
May 10. 1995	Production Fly Tying	The fascinating thing about AK is, that you start believing him and that many of his methods make sense. His approach is very personal, and he doesn't try to hide this.
May 1. 1995	Catch & Release	The fish in the Danish sea are in no way endangered by rodfishers. Nets are another story, though, but still fish are abundant, and therefore we Danes almost always bring home fish. Small fish are illegal to catch, but many fishermen release a lot of their catch. But no-kill and pure C&R is not common on the Danish shores.
May 1. 1995	This is Denmark	Denmark is a small country; the size of Pensylvania, and can by no means be compared to the other and far larger Scandinavian countries; Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland.
May 1. 1995	Casting into waves	Yes, I actually do cast my flies into the waves! And it's great too, even though I prefer them to be small waves.
May 1. 1995	Rule no. 1	The bottom is a main factor in the ocean. We have no trees, no meandering, no overhanging banks (almost none at least). The water covers it all and above that... the sky.
May 1. 1995	Rule no. 2	The bottom is like the beach. This is not always true, but generally the beach can be used to judge the bottom below the surface.
May 1. 1995	Rule no. 3	Fish are where they feel good. That is where one or several factors are present: food, shelter, optimum water conditions, other fish ...and more.
May 1. 1995	Rule no. 3½	This should actually be rule number 4, but it's still a bit too vague to be so. It is based on my own and a lot of other fishers experiences, but still... Fishing is best when water is going out - and please notice, that this doesn't only refer to tidal movement.
May 1. 1995	Where rules meet	Certain spots provide many positive factors for the fish: exposed coast with mixed bottom, sand and weed covered stones. Variation, shelter and food is here in plenty.
May 1. 1995	What then? How to get on...	Once you have found a place where all these things come together, you still have a lot of water to cover. Luckily you can spot the places that will hold fish on an even smaller scale.
May 1. 1995	The weather	For your comfort when sea trout fishing you'll want a light wind from any direction or a heavier wind blowing away from the shore. Fish will be there in any wind and hard winds will often bring bigger fish that bite harder, but fishing can be tricky and tiring.
May 1. 1995	Changing conditions	Water conditions change from day to day and one location varies from clear, calm water to muddy water with high waves. The fish are there almost no matter what, and often rough weather offer better fishing than a calm surface.
May 1. 1995	The seasons	As all other kinds of fishing, the hunt for sea trout varies greatly through the year. But opposite many other fishing, there's no low season or high season.
May 1. 1995	Summer	Sea run brown trout can be fished in the Baltic during the summer too. Daytime fishing is possible, but evenings, nights and mornings excel.
May 1. 1995	Spring	The spring means activity in the Baltic where the winter fish start eating and the spawning fish return from the streams to the oceans
May 1. 1995	Autumn	Autumn in the Baltic is ideal for catching top condition sea run brown trout, mornings, days and evenings.
May 1. 1995	Winter	Fishing for sea run brown trout in the Baltic during the cold months
May 1. 1995	Tackle	Most Danes fish 7-8 wt. rods and lines. And most use a weight forward floating (WF-F) line or a shooting head. Expect that fairly long casts under difficult (that's mostly windy) conditions can save a day. All salt water flyfishing is done wading, and both waders and warm clothes for almost all seasons are essential.
May 1. 1995	Flies	Most of my flies are relatively simple patterns. The danish salt water fly-fishing demands flies in a lot of categories. Sometimes you can fish a location where the water is crystal clear and the surface is as a mirror, and sometimes exactly the same location is marred by hard wind, heavy waves and water as hot chocolate with marshmellows (yuck!).
May 1. 1995	Strategy	"Points" are generally good landmarks to use as a base for the fishing. Not that there are necessarily more fish there, but as they make good mental holding points. Points are good spots to start fishing and from these landmarks you can make 'excursions'
May 1. 1995	Tactics	A few tips of efficiently covering the water when fishing for Baltic sea trout
May 1. 1995	Proper conduct	There are laws and written rules, but for the benefit of all of us, there are some unwritten common sense and social rules too:
May 1. 1995	Rules & regulations	There are laws in Denmark too, and some of the deal with fishing. The most important ones are these
May 1. 1995	On coloured fish	When the sea trout is in salt water it's normally 'uncolored' meaning shining silvery with a bluish black back. Also the scales are normally many, but loose, and will fall off when the fish is touched. The fish is in an excellent condition, as it is eating all the time.
May 1. 1995	Map of Denmark	Just for your general orientation I've marked out a few good fishing spots.
Apr 20. 1995	Art flies | fly art	There are a couple of new pictures in this section. I have once again experimented with the unknown and hidden beauty in the flies and materials that we use - aspects that can be brought out through computer manipulation.
Apr 20. 1995	Fishing Denmark	An introduction to fishing on the Danish coast.