Home Forums Fishing Flyfishing Did I hear someone say that it's time for another Swap?

It's what's for dinner.

Next?

LOL!!!
Thanks for helping out.
Jeff

Yes, Jeff, the mailing address is the same as last year. Thanks! Looking forward to seeing them in real life! they look great!

Thanks, I'll get them out Friday.
They do look pretty cool if I say so myself.

Some flies just "have it" when seen as a crowd in a box, don't they?

guys hate to do it but i need to bail on this one

A bail is on a spinning reel. This is the flyfishing section, so you can't do that.

Out in todays mail.

Awesome!

For the rest of you, tick-tock. 2 weeks left!

Into the gentle hands of the Post Office tomorrow.

I got mine in the mail today. I wanted to avoid being stereotyped for always getting mine in first. I managed to tie the standard fly and two improvements (I think). I tie this mayfly pattern my friend taught me called a thorax fly. My trout love the fly but after 2 minutes, the thing sinks. I tied it with a kip tail wing as a parachute. I tried it with a little Enrico Puglisi fur this time that weighs nada and hope it might float a little longer. I also tied it with a deer hair body with 3 moose mane fibers for a tail and hope that will float a while longer too. I find myself tying on fresh flys to toss to fish and then hanging them on my hat. It'd be nice to leave one on for a while.

That's what they invented foam for.

No pics?
Thanks for the extras.

And Gink.

The point of the thorax ties is to move the hackle, which imitates legs, to the body segment that the legs, and wings, actually sprout from. With a parachute tie your "legs" are sort of already pointed back that way, and toward the middle, and the front, presenting a fairly realistic silhouette. But a thorax parachute does sound interesting. And yeah. A foam parachute post would certainly help float it too.

I am too impatient to see Mitsy's pics of you guys efforts. I'm going over there. I got to drop stuff off anyway- and drink SD's. Booze. And give AKG crap about... Everything.

The price for peeking is to take Huntinfool's place in the Swap. Start tying! (And stay out of the bourbon until after you've tied the last whip-finish.)

Does a married wing on an intruder count as a tweak?


I might have a few tricks up my sleeve... When is the deadline? I've never started tying for a swap on a board til about a week after its passed...

I've no authority, daren't give you answers.
Oh, mamaT- can Johnny come in to play?

(Deadline is Valentine's Day.)

There's a good reason why there's no pictures!!!

I tried to improve a pattern when I saw a Muddler Minnow tied out of Puglisi fibers. It looked awesome. $150 of materials from Cabela's and I couldn't tie the dumb thing. I couldn't get the fibers to stand up for the head so I could trim it. Deer body hair, it is not. Then I made a bunch of minnows with the fibers that don't look like much. Yeah, I tied another 2 dozen flys I couldn't send along.

Improving fly patterns isn't my forte.


By the way, I use Gink. It doesn't keep them on top more than a few minutes.

You know, I've been a fly fisherman since I was a kid and I was tying flys in the first grade. I always fished them in ponds. There aren't any rivers around here. My Brother used to talk about the Wood River growing up and it wasn't until 4 or 5 years ago that I took the hour drive to see it. I fish it now, and found a friend who has for a while that was willing to show me a few patterns. I think floating a dry down on a rising trout is one of the coolest things I've done in this life but my experience is pretty limited.

You've got more than tricks up your sleeve....

Like the man said, deadline is February 14th. Don't wait, you should be using that day to be nice to your wife.

Whoooooo-hooo! Two more packages showed up in my mailbox today!

Okay! One more today!