GFF Newsletter: The Feather Mechanic | A heartfelt thank you! | Chalk and Cheese | Fish Scaled Up

It's been a more or less crazy 2020 for most of us, and we're all hoping for some light at the end of the tunnel as soon as possible in the new year.
Reality is most likely - and unfortunately - that it will be some months yet before things really change for the better and we can return to life as we used to know it.

Luckily our virtual lives, which includes the Global FlyFisher, has been basically unaffected - except from quite a few more online conversations and meetings for most of us. Web sites, social media, online videos and much more has kept many of us sane and in contact with "reality".

The fishing has been affected for some of you. Where I usually fish it's been unchanged apart from more people with a little more time on hand to go fishing.
When it comes to fly tying, most of us have had more time than usual, and the ones of us living in the northern hemisphere just long for an option to get out and dip some lockdown- or work-from-home flies in the water and hopefully entice a fish or two to take them.

Until that happens you can as always enjoy new content on GFF. Lots of it is linked below. I can particularly recommend Danish Soren Skarby's fantastic images from the Fish Scaled Up project. Fascinating!

Apart from that I want to reach out and thank those of you who have supported the site with money during the year. You have no idea how much I appreciate your contributions, and a heartfelt thanks goes out here as well as on the site. Thanks to you I can now run the site without digging into my own pockets for money for hosting and other expenses.

Thanks!

Martin

Articles The Feather Mechanic This is a book I have been looking forward to for a while. And it doesn't disappoint.   A heartfelt thank you! It's been one and a half years since I started accepting donations to keep the site running, and the support has been overwhelming!   Chalk and Cheese An English flyfisher acquires a house in France - which just happens to have a chalk stream running its property   Fish Scaled Up Danish fly angler and professional photographer Soren Skarby got an idea: to photograph fish like they'd never been photographed before		Videos Mole Fly   Hatching Midge   CDC Spring Dun   Blog Being on Instagram Social media can be a strange experience. It's really a mixed bag. And on Instagram 40% of all anglers seem to be women!   About getting skunked A part of fishing is not catching anything. If you're only in it for the catching, there's something you have misunderstood.
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