Joel

I fish mostly Bass,Pike,Walleyeand other warmwater fish it seems I tie on a clouser tied very sparse about 3 out of 4 times to start.

I like to tie big gaudy spun deerhair flys so many kinds sizes and shapes it keep me sane on cold winter nights when I know I can't get on open water for a 100 days I can tie up a few of these and imagine the bass eating them on a warm summer evening.

In a big city at a crowded busy bus stop there was a beautiful young woman wearing a tight mini skirt. As the bus stopped and it was her turn to get on, she became aware that her skirt was too tight to allow her leg to come up to the height of the first step of the bus. Slightly embarrassed and with a quick smile to the bus driver, she reached behind her to unzip her skirt a little, thinking that this would give her enough slack to raise her leg. Again, she tried to make the step only to discover she still couldn't. So, a little more embarrassed, she once again reached behind her to unzip her skirt a little more, and for the second time attempted the step. Still, much to her chagrin, she could not raise her leg. With a little smile to the driver, she again reached behind to unzip a little more and again was unable to make the step. About this time, a large Texan who was standing behind her in line picked her up easily by the waist and placed her gently on the step of the bus. She went ballistic, turned to the would-be good Samaritan, and yelled, "How dare you touch my body! I don't even know who you are!" The Texan smiled and drawled, "Well, ma'am, normally I would agree with you, but after you unzipped my fly three times, I kinda figured we was friends."

Fly Hunting A woman walked into the kitchen to find her husband stalking around with a flyswatter. "What are you doing?" She asked. "Hunting Flies" He responded. "Oh! Killing any?" She asked. "Yep, 3 males, 2 Females", he replied Intrigued, she asked. "How can you tell?" "Simple" he replied. "3 were on a beer can, 2 were on the phone."

Having arrived at the edge of the river, the fisherman soon realized he'd forgotten to bring bait. Just then he happened to see a little snake crawling by who had caught a worm. He snatched up the little snake and robbed him of his worm. Then, feeling sorry for the little snake with no lunch, he snatched him up again and poured a little beer down his throat and went back to his fishing. An hour or so later, the fisherman felt a tug on his pant leg. Looking down, he saw the same little snake with three more worms.

An old man in Mississippi was sitting on his front porch watching the sun rise. He sees the neighbor's kid walk by carrying something big under his arm. He yells out "Hey boy, whatcha got there?" Boy yells back "Roll of chicken wire." Old man says "What you gonna do with that?" Boy says "Gonna catch some chickens." Old man yells "You damn fool, you can't catch chickens with chicken wire!" Boy just laughs and keeps walking. That evening at sunset the boy comes walking by and to the old man's surprise he is dragging behind him the chicken wire with about 30 chickens caught in it. Same time next morning the old man is out watching the sun rise and he sees the boy walk by carrying something kind of round in his hand. Old man yells out "Hey boy, whatcha got there?" Boy yells back "Roll of duck tape." Old man says "What you gonna do with that?" Boy says back "Gonna catch me some ducks." Old man yells back, "You damn fool, you can't catch ducks with duck tape!" Boy just laughs and keeps walking. That night around sunset the boy walks by coming home and to the old man's amazement he is trailing behind him the unrolled roll of duck tape with about 35 ducks caught in it Same time next morning the old man sees the boy walking by carrying what looks like a long reed with something fuzzy on the end. Old man says "Hey boy, whatcha got there?" Boy says "It's a pussy willow." Old man says "Wait up.... I'll get my hat."

DFix I don't think so I'm from Ontario

The only one I know of is in England but they will ship at cost. Here the site. http://www.justfish.co.uk/cgi-bin/2003/pro...ame=Buck%20Tail

My flys arrived this morning Thanks to ods for hosting this swap. good looking ties guys I had time this morning to make half a dozen copys my oldest son has the day off of school tommorow we will be trying them out at the crack of dawn should be a good day it's been on the cool side up here in Ontario and the crappies are still ganged up in the shallows.Thanks again for a great swap.

Thanks for the tip I always seem to run in to static when evening the tips of deer hair in the hair stacker after 2 or 3 flys on a dry winter day I'm on the verge of pulling my own hair out. For flashabou or maribou I keep a small bowl of water near the bench a small bit gets things under control.

On a golf tour in Newfoundland, Tiger Woods drives his BMW into a gas station in a remote part of the island. The attendant at the pump greets him in a typical Newfoundland manner, completely unaware of who the golfing pro is. "Mornin' bye" says the attendant. Tiger nods a quick "hello" and bends forward to pick up the nozzle. As he does so, two tees fall out of his shirt pocket onto the ground. "What are dey den, son?" asks the attendant. "They're called tees" replies Tiger. "Well, what on de good earth are dey for?" inquires the Newfie. "They're for resting my balls on when I'm driving" says Tiger. "Freeckin Jaysus" says the Newfie, "Dem boys at BMW tink of everything"

The name of the fly I sent in is a Fluff butt I was looking around for a way to get my young boys then 7 and 5 interested in fly fishing when I saw this pattern it suspends like a jig so I tied up a few a we when to the locale lock right after ice out I put the smallest bobber on thier spin-cast rigs. Both lads caught plentyof fish that day. I can't seem to remember which version I sent into the swap as I was tying 3 or 4 at the time I joined I think it might of been Orange grizzly maribou from the but of a large streamer saddle hackle.orange body and legs for the body with red thread and a black bead on a #10 mustad 9672. The older boy is now tying these and throwing them with a fly rod panfish sure are great teachers and they taste great! Here the link to the site the chartruese one pictured is still on of my favorites. Hope this helps Joel http://laflyfish.com/flies/fluff-butt.php

Good looking ties if the are fished where the fish are I doubt you will be feeling dejected. Up here in Eastern Canada there been a lot of top water the past week or so,bluegill,crappie, bass and a few nice pike mostly on gurglers and maribou muddlers. Good luck to you.

I have always used the standard clinch 5 turns for heavy leaders 20+ and 7 for lighter leaders a bit of mouth lube and a small tab.

Gee thats a pretty tough question about two this afertnoon my answer would have been crappies as I was throwing a small maribou clouser on the edge of some weed beds and had caught a dozen nice slaps 10-13 inches I was standing in an old sports pal canoe the one with lines similer to a bath tub I decided to flip the fly backwards into a small path of weeds a couple seconds later something smashed the fly and acaully started pulling the canoe backwards I fought the fish over my shoulder until the bow of the conoe came about and he was in front of me I knelled down as soon as I could an fought him for quite a while finnally got him in a 36 inch pike no scale with me but I would guess he would go 9 or 10 pounds. So I will have to change my favorite to pike but tommorow.... thats anyones guess.