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Another year with GFF has passed and it's time to wish everybody a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Many Finnish fly fishermen wait impatiently throughout a long and dark winter for some exotic dry fly fishing in the middle of ice and snow

A simple shrimp pattern that does not use the popular but expensive Spey hackle

Early spring brings exciting trout fishing on one Detroit-area river. This is the Huron River, which circles the western half of the metro area a mere 20 miles or so from such local landmarks as Henry Ford's original automobile manufacturing plant and the historical Motown Music Museum.

This winter has been a long one. We're in the beginning of March, and still the ice is covering much of the coastal water, many lakes and even streams. But Martin usually don't long for spring. Don't worry: It comes no matter what!

How do you frame wind? How is snow captured best? How do you protect your camera when you try to freeze a shower into a single image? No, it's not at all easy to get the impression of weather into that piece of mechanics and electronics we call a camera.

Officially spring has started. So of course it started snowing!

Sorry for the politically very incorrect heading, but bloody weather is just what we have right now and have had for a month or two

I managed to squeeze in one more trip before 2008

I have a heavy inflamation of cabin fever now -- and winter hasn't even really started yet

Snowed in

Last year two DVDs about spin and fly fishing for sea trout in Denmark were released. New flies, spinning techniques and gear set-ups were parts of the DVDs, but what really struck the Germans, Swedes and Danes, were the underwater recordings, showing big schools of sea trout swimming around following the fly without taking. The DVD's quickly became modern classics.

No fishing. Just scouting.

No fishing here for awhile

Ways to fight the cold and ways to catch fish in freezing water

Is this just for nerds or do you as angler get something out of knowing how accurate you can measure the temperature?
For some, knowing the temperature may change the day from a disaster to success.

Still 15,000 fish shy

The Opening Day of Trout Season is tomorrow here in New York. I will be meeting some friends to fish somewhere along the West Branch of the Delaware River, a place I have not fished since I moved here from Endicott. Maybe once a couple years ago. There are too many trout streams between where I live now and the West Branch for me to take the drive, even though it's a relatively short drive.

Nada? Zilch? Riens? Intet? Nothing?

A long way from here to 15,000 trout

A foggy February day turns in to a perfectly beautiful sunny day. But no fish want to play.

On the lookout for winter sea trout in a stream near Copenhagen

When King Winter and the Ice Queen reign over the waters the fishing slows down. What better to do than to get out your camera and snap some pictures of the beautiful landscapes, icy hardship and the rare but well-deserved fish.

We crank out some strange flies every now and then. Get an idea, dig through piles of materials and tie up a handful of slightly different flies, each one better than the previous one, but none of them really good. But sometimes one comes out OK.

GFF partner and avid winter fisher Martin Joergensen tries to convince you why breathable waders are good for winter fishing and why you may freeze in your trusty neoprenes. It has to do with sweat and moisture... or the lack of same.

Better than a day in the office

This little article is a photo essay rather than one of many words. GFF partner Martin Joergensen has done picture based stories like this one before, just putting up a bunch of good fishing shots and adding a little text.

GFF partner Martin Joergensen has owned quite a few wading jackets, and none of them have fit his bill for the perfect jacket for his type of fishing. In this article he sings the Wading Jacket Blues and tries to describe the perfect jacket.

Getting an early start on my resolution

A few photos to give you an idea of how GFF partner Martin Joergensen spent his domestic fishing days in the first part of this year - primarily in pursuit of his beloved sea trout, but also out to get some pike and other species.

A cold one

I just use my old breathables, layered underneath with lots of good warm stuff!

In spite of what most people think, breathable waders are well suited for winter fishing

Could Fall be near?

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

Cold weather lines are slowly becoming as common as the special lines for tropical fishing. GFF partner Martin Joergensen has fished one from Monic and liked it very much.

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.

The ice is gone...

After a couple of long months - November and December - with very nice but very cold weather - it seems to be back to the usual Danish winter: dark, moist, not really cold but certainly not warm either.
This means that the ice on the open coasts has gone, but that the fjords are still somewhat covered. The fishing is still slow, even though sporadic stories about good winter days are heard.

Denmark is still a cold place

Due to the long and cold winter, the season is only slowly starting. My own fishing has only given a few trout this year, while the cod fishing - from a float tube - has been excellent. This past weekend also gave cod, but no trout. The reports are coming in though. Borth in Jylland (Mariager Fjord and Vejle Fjord) and on Sjaelland (Isefjord) the fishing for trout in the salt is gaining momentum.

A killer fly in the right hands on a cold winter day. A very simple shrimp pattern for Danish sea trout and many other targets.

Fishing for sea run brown trout in the Baltic during the cold months

As some of you might have noticed from my recent postings I'm becoming more and more fond of my float tube, and this trip would be a tube one too. All my favoutite wading spots are iced down anyway. The weather here has been very cold lately and the fjords, which are normally the water of choice for the winter, are unfishable.