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It's what's for dinner.
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LOL!!! Thanks for helping out. Jeff
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Yes, Jeff, the mailing address is the same as last year. Thanks! Looking forward to seeing them in real life! they look great!
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Thanks, I'll get them out Friday. They do look pretty cool if I say so myself.
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Some flies just "have it" when seen as a crowd in a box, don't they?
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guys hate to do it but i need to bail on this one
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A bail is on a spinning reel. This is the flyfishing section, so you can't do that.
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Yes, Jeff, the mailing address is the same as last year. Thanks! Looking forward to seeing them in real life! they look great! Out in todays mail.
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Awesome!
For the rest of you, tick-tock. 2 weeks left!
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Into the gentle hands of the Post Office tomorrow.
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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.
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That's what they invented foam for. No pics? Thanks for the extras.
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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.
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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.)
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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...
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I've no authority, daren't give you answers. Oh, mamaT- can Johnny come in to play?
(Deadline is Valentine's Day.)
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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.
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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.
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Whoooooo-hooo! Two more packages showed up in my mailbox today!
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