vicrider

Mike, I'd love to come across country and fish with you but I could guess your response. I understand you hate everybody with no prejudice in there. Actually, you are a lot like the nephew, also a Marine (my brother reminds me there are no ex-Marines) now inactive who feels being thanked for his service is an insult. He simply nods and moves on (familiar?) and says the large majority of servicemen agree with him. I find that hard to believe. Maybe it is because my blood brother was in Nam and came back on a stretcher and went through several operations to be fairly normal that I feel like I should thank those who fought or typed requisitions or worked in motor pools for us to be free in this country.

Do most servicemen dislike us civilians thanking them for their service when we see them in uniform?

Try this instead of your link. https://spawnflyfish.com/

Sounds good Heff. Tom, with the Musky flies you tie I'd think you could whip up a simple jointed fly and get in on this.

Ah fer cryin' out loud...In MN we'd drill a hole and sit on a 5 gallon bucket and keep fishing. It would be considered acceptable to turn your back to the wind but hiding at home was labeling yourself a wimp and being told to move to FL if you can't take a cool breeze.

You'll be waiting 11 days and it will show up in morning mail.

Read an article where articulated nymphs were the hot item for some guys. Would love to have ya' both.

If we can't get some more activity on this swap I will close it. I did tie 6 articulated nymphs and a few for myself and planned to do a couple of bass flies to go with them but cost of postage makes swaps with so few people almost silly so we'll give this to this Friday and if we can't make it work we'll call it and if you have any just put them in your fly box or save them for a different swap. Keep in mind you can articulate almost any two flies with a short length of mono looped through back body and tied to front fly shank and cemented in place. Lighter or heavier mono depending on trout or bass or tarpon fly. Jump in and fill out our swap with a half dozen tiers. 1. (of a person or a person's words) having or showing the ability to speak fluently and coherently. "an articulate account of their experiences" 2. TECHNICAL having joints or jointed segments. "delicate articulate plants with a slender central stem" OR "delicate flies with a jointed section" Okay, since this is a fly tying forum we'll go with the second definition. Don't worry about pronunciation but let's do an articulated swap. I have done swaps where I did a half dozen Hog Snares but don't think I'm up to that again. Remember an articulated swap does not have to be a Rich Stollis creation to be considered for this swap. I have seen some nice Wooly Buggers jointed with a piece of Mono and a bead that looked like a bass killer to me. I have also seen some nice Stone Flies with articulated tail sections that look really appetizing (if you're a fish). Let's shoot for a half dozen and if that fills we can expand it to 8 but there is enough time and material involved in these flies to not go a full dozen (unless people want). Given tying time let's go for a turn in date by May 6, giving several weekends in there and time to order materials if needed. Nick Szabo, PO Box 361, Cheyenne, OK 73628 1. psychoprince 2. Trourttramp 3. Heff2 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Link didn't work for me but this will take you to the obituary of our friend WWKimba. https://www.donaldlbarberfuneralhome.com/obituary/Kim-Bowman

I've been out of the Cicada onslaught since I left IL. Never had them in MN (we had army worms), don't have them in OK. I suppose every area has some but not been in a real hatch area in many years. I'm sure fish of all species will gorge on them when opportunity arises and you might need to go to Bass Pro to find a match the hatch in Bass Fly section.

Now that's the goal. Fish will eat your Rusty Parachute just fine.

They were a bitch. What should have been a simple weave pattern just gave me a lot of trouble. Never really got the top and bottom right but the top is black and there is some orange flashing through on them. I've done lots of weaves in the past but this one just didn't fall in place for me. Shaky hands these days sure doesn't help but a third hand would have.

I have been very careless about checking for fraud I'm afraid. When I open the envelope and it says "This is not a bill" I usually toss it instead of checking it out. With the entire Social Security and Medicare programs constantly running short of money that should be there I'm sure that much of that is because of fraud like you experienced. I will begin checking my charges from now on and if there is fraud I will report it promptly. Thanks for bringing this up. I knew fraud in Medicare was rampant and costs us all money but never thought to try to do my part to combat it.

Thank you for posting that. Kim was a favorite member to many of us. He will be greatly missed and I and the board members can only express our sympathy to your family and pray for your strength to carry on and keep him in your memories. The swap flies are a minor thing as he ran many fun and successful swaps on this and other boards. I will post this on this board and send you our board condolences to your email. Nick Szabo...AKA Vicrider

Since I've always enjoyed weaving patterns I'll with the Bitch Creek Stone, #6. And thank you for thinking of Kim in this swap.