Home Forums Fishing Flyfishing First Annual Fly Swap, 2007......

Houndgirl: Received the PM with an address. Will the address suffice for both Postal Service and/or UPS delivery. I ask because our local UPS system has limited hours, and I would have to make a mid-day trip back into town Will attempt to get the Parachute Adams off tomorrow if I get a response. Thanks again, 1Minute

It should work fine....

Tie 14 and include tags on your flies(name/fly-pattern).....you is FAST, man<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />...still working on mine.....

HoundGirl

Done deal....tie 14 flies, include tags on each fly(name/fly-pattern)...and send them to me, with return postage, by the first week of Jan. 2007.....woooot! This should be fun.

I'll post pics, as I recieve them....can't wait to see the creations<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />...

FINAL LIST............

1. HoundGirl....Blue-wing Olive
2. AKGrayling.....BeadHead Nymph
3. Hacklewrap01..ginger quill
4. 1Minute ... Parachute Adams
5. S'Head....blonde wulff
6. Bootsfishing ...Efoamarella Parachute
7. Hunterbug .. Parachute stimulator
8. Southerntier8 ... Light Spruce
9. Pugs .... Black Stonefly
10.BlueNorther..Beadhead Pheasant tail nymph
11.Couesdeer.....little yellow stone flies
12.Elf.....to be decided
13.CastandBlast.....Quigley Cripple
14. Blaine....to be decided

HoundGirl

Ain't know way I'm gonna tie 14 tags on flies, have a hard enough time with the tippet.


Methinks everyone will be able to recognize a Wulff pattern, very fluffy with LOTS of hackle.

Depends on the quality of the replication!

Quit your bitchen....and just poke the tags(name and fly pattern) through the hook<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />!

HoundGirl

Here is a sample of my blue-wing olive.....







No poking fun....lol....I am STRUGGLING with my wings....

HoundGirl

That don't look bad, does look like a LOT of thread at the head.

Crap! I can see I better tie 50 and pick the best 14 of the bunch to measure up in this bunch! That's a nice tie HG......



Do you coat them with Flexament or like product so they hold together?

I've only worked raw duck quils...but I've wondered about wing burners and/or cement for wings. I'll google flexament. Only started this recently...and I am still figuring things out.....

Always wonder about beauty verses function. Like, what might be purty....might not dance well when it hit the water...you know?!

thoughts?

HoundGirl

Ugly catches fish just fine. Just a bit of cement on the wings will help out, I haven't had the need for burners, but I like hair bestest for wings, hackle tips second....

Thanks....I like quil wings cuz they are purty....but they aren't the easiest mediuum to work with...

I don't even really know WHAT a burner is....can you describe what it is....thanks.

HoundGirl

Even those most finicky about tying will admit that some flies just get better with each additional trout that frays them. (But those tiers won't admit to the contradiction.)

Newbies often travel down a path to some frustration- once they've got some tying under their belts, they begin to improvise. But 99% of their creations fail. The dry won't float, the dancer plows under, the shiner swims on its side, the legs foul, the fly sits on its head, etc.

A proven pattern is just that- proven. An unproven pattern is just...

There's more to a well designed fly than just looks.
Then again, sometimes a cigarette butt speared on a scud hook can bring in a lunker!

Think of some brass tweezers in various sizes shaped like wings. Put a set of feathers in them, clamp down and burn off the excess, open and you have 2 exact wings (well almost).

Wing burner

There are definitely purty flies that are better at catching fisherman than fish. When you are in the middle of a feeding frenzy, you don't want to have to change flies because they fall apart after one or two fish. That's why I'm with Steelie on preferring hair wings for durability. My favorite dry fly is an old pattern called a Haystack, and uses deer hair for both wing and tail. A buddy introduced it to me on a day when my purty, "match the hatch perfectly" flies were getting snubbed and his Haystack was getting slurped up every cast. We fish lakes with the combo of big trout and weeds, and have had days when my whole supply got busted off in fishes mouths and I had to run in and frantically tie up more before the hatch fizzled. A simple, fast tie like the Haystack is great for that scenario.

Sometimes a fly that gives an impression of something good to eat works better than an exact anatomically correct imitation of the insect.

Pretty fly and a great job on the wings! I find it easiest to just tie them on the hook the first trip down with the thread, get them close, and use some dubbing or hackle winds to fine tune alignment as I work back up from tail to head. I have lots of quills in my boxes, but must admit I seldom fish them. Reason being, I can't tie the perfect aerodynamic fly. That being, my creations windmill through the air. The dry flies with their very erect wings are the worst. With extremely light tippets, I end up with a twisted leader giving the appearance of a pile of noodles dropped on the water with a tiny fly sampling sauce at the edge. Some of the issue might be due to too much false casting. With less air time, I'd probably have less twisting. Wet flies, where the wings are more layed back, are less of a problem. Most of my working flies are feather or hair winged. I have been doing some married (layers of different colors) quill wings on some recent steelhead patterns. They are beautiful to look at, but I have soooo much time and effort into their creation that the thought of abusing them at the end of the line is more than I can stand. So far they are just flybox dressing. Looking forward to the exchange. 1Minute P.S. An after thought.... When the exchange has been completed, I would enjoy a new thread with a posting from each member expressing their thoughts on the most effective presentations for their pattern.

What's the camera that gave you those great pics, HG?

HG,
Of course you realize that with the Swapmeister duites comes the burden of photographing and posting pictures of the flies for the group <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Here's the homepage of the swaps I usually participate in.

http://gula.org/roffswaps/index.php

Allen

and one frontal nude shot with all the flies........

Frontal nude shot.....I'm on top of it.....you'll love the hair on Ned's chest....lol...

Cast- it is a work camera that has a macro function on it....I'll have to look....

Pugs- I'll get everyone's pics up, as they roll in...

HoundGirl