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2000

Date	Title	Body	Image
Jan 10. 2000	Opossum	A simple fly for sea trout.
Jan 9. 2000	Bead chain eyes	You will see that many of the Danish saltwater flies - The Magnus, Bjarke and Grey Frede are prime examples - have bead chain eyes. These eyes serve two purposes: weight and imitation. The eyes will add quite a bit of weight in the front end of the fly and the beads obviously look like eyes. Their shiny surface even adds an attractive feature that will glimpse and get the attention of the fish.
Jan 8. 2000	George F. Grant’s Flies	George F. Grant's flies utilize some very special techniques.
Jan 1. 2000	Book column January 2000	This is where it all starts You are what you eat! You are what you read! Garbage in garbage out!
Jan 1. 2000	Spey Hackles	I've been fascinated with spey flies for a long time. The first I had ever seen was a Purple Spey tied by Tim Purvis, which arrived in a swap of steelhead flies a bunch of us FF@'ers exchanged several years ago. The next was an Olive Spey tied by Juro Mukai in a swap of atlantic salmon flies.
Jan 1. 2000	Woodduck Flank	I have to admit a particular fondness for woodduck flank. Ever since I was given my first baggie of feathers from a duck hunting friend, I was smitten. The color - the texture - the barring of the feathers.
Jan 1. 2000	Thunder Creek flies	Kieth Fulsher was particularly concerned with the size of the head and the eyes. He didn't feel that thread heads with painted eyes or jungle cock eyes appropriately represented the large head of a minnow.
Jan 1. 2000	Virginia Blue-Ribbon Streams - A Fly-Fishing Guide	Overall, I don't like where-to-fish guidebooks. Most of them are poorly researched, poorly written, and generally useless. This volume, however, proves the exception to the rule.

1999

Date	Title	Body	Image
Dec 30. 1999	Derek from SA	South African friend Derek goes to the Danish coast to try some sea trout fishing. Since he always comes during Christmas, it is bound to be cold.
Dec 11. 1999	The Red Fly	A large colorful fly for cod fishing.
Dec 10. 1999	Dave Lewis, USA	Late Dave Lewis was a master rod builder. We still host a few of his online articles.
Dec 10. 1999	Smooth as silk	Rod builder Dave Lewis of Performance Flyrods teaches you how to finish a cork grip. Dave covers the whole process from selecting cork over glueing to the final shaping.
Dec 5. 1999	Chillimps	Small orange fly for for garfish
Dec 1. 1999	Tying Foam Flies	What stirred my interest in this book was Charles Garwood's article on foam flies for panfish. In this he mentions Skip Morris as his inspiration. During a recent visit in Seattle I stumbled over the book, and as it's absolutely reasonable priced and looked very interesting, I immediately bought it.
Nov 11. 1999	Rangeley swap	It was inevitable that the folks on Raske's "Streamers" mailing list would eventually partake in a swap of Rangeley style streamers.
Nov 1. 1999	Valeur's Pike Streamer	This amazing fly is ment for pike. It's caught a lot already on the line of originator Morten Valeur who states that this is one of the few flies he can truly call his own.
Oct 10. 1999	Cone head flies	A few early samples of Danish fly tyer Ken Bonde Larsen's cone head flies.
Oct 4. 1999	The South African Fly Fishing Handbook	When Dean Riphagan's book, "The South African Fly Fishing Handbook" arrived at my doorstep, I could only imagine what was inside the package.
Oct 1. 1999	Waterworks ULA reel	Larger arbor reels are much touted as the best thing since sliced bread. A reel that's designed and tooled like the ULA reel just might be - but not because of the large diameter spool.
Oct 1. 1999	The South African Fly Fishing Handbook	Above average in pattern selection and book layout. Misleading title: it's more of a fly-tying handbook featuring flyfishing in South Africa.
Sep 20. 1999	Eyes from pearls	There are other ways than bead chain eyes to make eyes for a fly. Here are two ways: Copper thread and pearls and melted monofile.
Sep 12. 1999	Red Tag Palmer	An all time classic which here is tied for sea trout in ocean and stream.
Sep 11. 1999	Atrractor swap	Undoubtedly, when one thinks of attractor streamer and bucktail patterns, the venerable Mickey Finn comes to mind. More often than not, it's the very first pattern streamer aficionados are introduced to when learning to tie...and rightly so, as it remains a productive pattern in our streamer wallets.
Sep 5. 1999	Bullet Head Magnus	The Magnus is a pattern always present in my fly box. I've caught a lot of fish on it, it's simple to tie and surprisingly durable. It's normally tied with ball chain eyes, but after I found a good supplier of bullet shaped bead head, I tried tying some with bullet heads.
Sep 4. 1999	What fish see	This is a book, which I have looked forward to read with great anticipation.
Sep 1. 1999	Fly Fishers Guide to Saltwater Naturals and their Imitation	If you ever want to know the 'entomology' of the salt water prey species, this is a good place to look. You will become a very educated salt water fisherman if you read and understand these sections. This will fortunately not be so hard, because even though Roberts has a very scientific way of treating his subject, it's not hard to read and undterstand the book.
Aug 30. 1999	Kasper Mühlbach, Denmark	When I'm not working it is quite often because I have gone flyfishing, which I have been doing since my teens, more or less.
Aug 21. 1999	The Idiot	The Idiot - or 'Idioten' in Danish - is another typical Danish sea trout pattern. The story of this fly is quite well known and documented. A team of Danish fly fishers including Erik Døssing were fishing in Norway when one of the company stated that he had never caught a sea trout on fly in the stream Karup Aa - probably Denmark's most productive and famous sea trout stream.
Aug 19. 1999	Selecting hooks for saltwater	Fly hooks for Scandinavian salt water fishing There are several considerations to make when choosing fly hooks for salt water fishing for sea trout.
Aug 15. 1999	The road to Lake O.	A Welshman's story about the little known Dutch steelhead fishing in Lake Oostvoorne. By Paul Slaney.
Aug 11. 1999	Night trip	The first fish I caught on the Morrisfoam Diver was a small sea trout which I took on a nightly outing with Maj-Britt and Henning
Aug 9. 1999	The Femmer Crab	This fly is the latest development in my experiments with the melt glue I have used with some success for cod. This version is much smaller than the original and uses a simpler and better method for building the body. This not only makes the fly faster to make, but also much easier to cast.
Aug 2. 1999	The Cone Head Tube Fly	A brand new way of tying tube flies. The usual way of weighting a tube fly is by using copper or aluminum tubes. This article shows a totally different approach
Aug 1. 1999	A Novice Graylingfishers Abstract 1999	For the last last three years, some of my friends and I have been to the southern central part of Sweden in the Malung-area in the pursuit of grayling and trout.
Jul 31. 1999	Benjamin Waedeled
Jul 29. 1999	The Sabot Fly	On the surface the job was simple, come up with some pike flies for my friend's teenage son's trip to Canada, something small enough that a teenager can handle and still tempt a pike.
Jun 27. 1999	Improving fly line control	Three ways of improving your fly line control. Line control is much more than mending
Jun 10. 1999	Fish in cream sauce	A nice course for lean fish. Served with rice.
Jun 6. 1999	Hen Hackle Demystified	Hen hackles have long been the source of confusion to many fly tyers. Whether they are looking for wings for their dry flies or hackles for their wet flies, there seems to plenty of head scratching when it comes time to purchase the appropriate feathers.
Jun 1. 1999	La mosca ahogada	Spanish flies are different! At least the ones that are shown in this book. The flies that this book treats are not only tied in a very special fashion, but almost all use Coq de Leon feathers. Read our review of La mosca ahogada.
May 20. 1999	Hooks for streamers	The hook is the foundation on which a good streamer is built. When streamer anglers meet, quite often it's the subject of heated debate! I've listed a variety of the streamer hooks available on the market today (and some no longer available) in the table in the article.
May 5. 1999	The Technology of Fly Rods	An In-Depth Look at the Design of the Modern Fly Rod, its History, and its Role in Fly Fishing
May 1. 1999	Ewing Streamer Hackles	One of the most difficult things for today's streamer tyer to find is suitable hackle for winging Rangeley Style streamers.
May 1. 1999	Umbrella for streams	I have been experimenting a bit with stream patterns for sea trout. One of the results has been a larger and more salmon fly like version of the Umbrella - a salt water fly that I have used with good success.
Apr 26. 1999	Fly Fishing the Mountain Lakes	This is one of the funniest books I have read for quite a while. I laughed a lot while I read it - and learned a lot.
Apr 26. 1999	Goats and lakes	Imagine a serious book where the smartest dog in the world and several pack goats all named Rufus play a major role! Such a book can't be boring. Gary LaFontaine's book Fly Fishing High Mountain Lakes is excellent - educating and entertaining.
Apr 20. 1999	Fly Tying Tips & Reference Guide	A collection of hundreds of small tying tips gathered during Stewart's career as an editor of American Angler and Fly Fish America.
Apr 20. 1999	500 tying tips	This book is a collection of hundreds of small tying tips gathered during Dick Stewart's career as an editor of American Angler and Fly Fish America. Read the review here.
Apr 4. 1999	Modern Streamers for Trophy Trout, Second opinion	This is a book that deliberately sets out to help the reader achieve a goal, which few of us actually admit we have: to catch BIG fish!
Apr 1. 1999	Spring preparation	This time of year is usually accompanied by a boost in personal energy level. Though sometimes difficult to describe, we can "smell" spring in the air. As our semi-hibernation comes to a close we notice an increased desire to plan for upcoming outdoor events.