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I'm waiting for 1 more. I think that I'm going to take a chance and assume they're not coming to the party and turn around your flys on Friday.

rob
Seems reasonable... very reasonable...
thanks for your efforts!
art

Good job rob! Takes alot of work and you deserve the credit. Now if everyone could post a pic of the fly they tied they could post it on my thread of "emergent caddis". Sure would be nice.

Qtip
Soli Deo Gloria!

They're going out tomorow. I appologize for the delay, I was just a slacker. Ask my wife how long it took me to fix the toilet in the upstairs bathroom and you'll get a whole disertation on how much of a slacker I am.

Too busy fishing to tie?

No, my Grandmother has had some serious helath issues and then there was the bathroom that I mentioned. After a year and a half of the toilet not flushing right I finally tore it appart and found the insert for the TP holder that had been missing about that long. Right about the time the youngest was potty training. But I just got home and they are at the post office. There is a special one in there just for Miss Treated. It won't be hard to spot.

I'm EXCITED!!! Something for me ?!!!

M

It's Friday, I got a package or Royal Wulff looking parachutes on my doorstep. I'm finally going to the post office tomorrow.

I'm glad they got there. I trust that you can tell which one is for MissTreated?

I couldn't tell because I put them all in padded mailing envelopes. I had to cut all the envelopes open, look through everyone's boxes and then I found what you mean. Sooo everybody's envelopes that went out first class Saturday I might add, are slit open and taped shut again. If I can read the writing you all sent, you should be expecting. I pooled all the S & H money you all sent and got envelopes and paid everyones postage. I hope they all find their ways to you. Keep me posted.

Post Man Cometh?

Nuttin' yet Rob....

Oh, BTW, I showed all the flys to a friend who used to work in a fly shop. He taught me a lot, and went through them one at a time kind of reminiscing like old coots do. Elkchasr sent a elk hair caddis looking fly with a hackle palmered over the body and another in front of the wing that he really liked. He mentioned brook trout fishing in Baxter State Park in Maine. QTip's emerger was another one, he thought it might catch fish here where we live. We need to wait another month to find out.

It would likely be a very time consuming pain in the butt (I'm on dial-up) but I think I would be able to take a pic of everyone's fly and post it up for all to see. If you guys find that agreeable, then I'll statrt when they arrive.

Qtip
Soli Deo Gloria!

With you being in NY, and everyone else being on the West coast you'll probably get them first. Everything went 1st class so I'm hoping they'll get to you soon.

Rob,
The Pony Express galloped into Flagstaff yesterday. Everything looks good and surely some trout in Oak Creek will be enticed this season.

Thank you for your effort ramrodding the swap.

Doug~RR

rob,

Got the flies this afternoon. All of them are really, really nice ties!
If you guys want the pics done then holler otherwise I won't go through all the hoops. Nice job and hats off to rob for the hard work. Nice surpise too... that's a nice fly box!

Qtip
Soli Deo Gloria!

Rob,

Recieved the flys at noon-thirty today! All I can say is that I am MAJOR LEAGUE IMPRESSED by all of the tiers! THANK YOU for doing this...I had no idea how it would turn out.

As a side bar, a gentleman I've know for 20 years came in just a few minutes ago. It turns out that he was looking for donations for a benefit of a local boy that has lukemia. Parents are not well off and his local lodge is fundraising. You guessed it. I took pictures of them and the poster telling of the benefit...put the flys in the box and donated them. I sure hope no one minds. I left the names of each tier on each fly and plugged the 24 hour campfire website for this auction item. I'll miss the smaller flys as the old eyes just won't get it done anymore. This child will never be able to thank any of you...but I do.

You all are the greatest!

bhtr

The package came here today as well. I'm impressed, too, as I didn't even sign up, Hunterbug tied me an awesome pink fly and RobP tied me a box full of flies!!!!! I don't know what I did to deserve such nice things from you guys, but I sure do appreciate it!!! It'll be 2 months before we get to try them out, but to be sure, they WILL get a workout as soon as the ice is out on the lakes!!!

M

Put up the pics!!! You're forcing me to upgrade to a digital camera with a macro so I can take pictures like yours to put up. I see a definite use for that now. BTW, I have a Bass Pro Shops a hallf hour from the house and I went and saw those nice little boxes and thought they'd be good for this.


I'm telling my friends I have flys in Alaska! It would be wild to see a picture of one in a grayling's mouth or something like that. That would just be neat.

Oh, Miss T, you rounded up Sitka Deer, Bow 92 and AKGrayling's flys and put them in the mail for me. I appreciate the help.


If you see a fly in there by Rick R, he's a friend here I enticed into doing a fly for leftovers. It's a Ubiquitous Adams he says. It catches fish 90% of the time and travels well. Rick taught me to tie "thorax flys" last Winter and showed me this Adams this Winter. That's why I wanted the brown feathers.

Well done Rob, thanks for putting it all together and especially for the new fly box they came in.

I saw a post elsewhere that said I was too slow on the trigger to get you some brown hackle, but if there is anything else that you have trouble getting let me know.

rob
Nicely done! You clearly win the prize for the most patient, giving flyswap chair, ever! Thank you for the fly box, also.

I promise we will show your flies to grayling and photograph the result... But dryfly fishing is a few feet of ice away yet. We have lots of different AK tying material, also...
art

Don't do it just for me, but I'd like to see the [dial-up suitable] pics. (Slip in as a background this fly box we're hearing so much about!)

flys look wonderful thanks guys and gals

Check the thorax flys. My friend hackles them up and cuts the bottoms flat. I don't wrap them so many times and don't cut them. I wonder if it's a rule that you do so they supposedly sit upright or if the trout could care less as long as it's the wrong color/size. I've also been told that the tail material needs to be shiny, i.e. you need a cape the same color as your saddle to pluck long barbed feathers off. I don't know folks. If it matters or not.

Wasn't it nice of Ned to thread the eye of that gnat with a chunk of tippet for those of us with older eyes?

Nice ties everybody. Who's gonna be the first to stick a fish with one?

OK guys! I'll do the pics. Just be patient with me though. It's a little involved with so many flies. I have to take the shots after set-up, download, then crop and add title, upload to photobucket, and then load to this forum. So it's at least the weekend for sure; maybe longer. But it's really worth it and your guys are decent folk.

Qtip
Soli Deo Gloria!

rob
Trimming thorax flies is all about ride... Unclipped they will land upside down and the turkey flat or other wing material will suck water fast.

Shiney barbs are almost always stiffer and stay dry longer... I always prefer a shiney tail on a dry.
art

I think since my water is at present in liquid state and I can go out the second Saturday in April, I've got a good chance to "stick the first fish" with one. The stocking truck (dirty word) dumped a bunch at Brickyard Pond today. The cormorants are gathering for the feasting. More will survive in the rivers and I'll hit the Wood after opening weekend.

Well folks you can all go over to the pics thread. I've got them done. Whew!!!!!

Qtip
Soli Deo Gloria!

And a great job you did, too!

M

Rob, nice job on the swap. Appreciate the pix as well, Qtip. Bill

Anyone still waiting for their flys?

Post office delivered a nice package of flies today. Well done folks, very nice. Box is a nice touch, thanks.
For a bunch of hunters/shooters, there sure is a lot of flytying talent at the "fire.
Now I gotta wait for the Crowsnest to open.
Thanks for putting this together Rob.
Jeff

What's the "Crowsnest?" Is it a river. It would be a strange name for one.

It is one of the best small trout rivers in Alberta. Has rainbows, cutthroat and bull trout mostly. Some browns in the lower stretchs. Has one of the most famous yet elusive salmon fly hatches among others. Originates at the top of the Crowsnest Pass through the Rockies in, you guessed it, the Crowsnest Lake. It is a facinating part of SE Alberta with a huge amount of history.

Often folks who are on a drift trip on the Bow, will take a day or two to do the Crow. Its a couple hours south of Calgary. I'm 3 hours east on the bald azz prairie, makes for a nice trip to the mountains. If you ever get out this way, I'll give you a tour of it. I plan to retire and/or die on the riverbank. If I had pics on digital I could post them, but mine are all on slides.