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    Flykid and all you other swappers:

     

    I have been in about 15 swaps in the last 6 months and never missed finishing one, until now. With the time I spent helping my family getting my mother into her hospice situation and a few other commitments I wont be able to make the deadline. I apologize for any problems this will cause.

     

    I could get the things tied with an extra week, but I will leave that up to you.

     

    Thanks

     

    Frank aka Student4evr.

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    To everyone:

     

    Sorry about the delay. I took a couple of hours to repack a lot of stuff in the box and the first mailing did a number on the box. I found a substantial replacement and the box left for BigE today.

     

    Frank aka student4evr B) B)

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    Spanky :

     

    My time line just got crunched. I found out my mom's cancer spread a lot faster then we anticipated. So I have to make a trip over the 4th. Send me your Addy please and I will get the scuds off before I go.

     

    Thanks for hosting.

    Frank aka Student4evr

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    Mike:

     

    I just got back from a trip to Canada and found the returned package of flies I sent you. I realize that I put down an incorrect address. I will send them out expedited mail tomorrow. :wallbash:

     

    I am sorry for the inconvenience to all the other members of the swap.

     

    Frank aka Student 4evr

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    Well everyone I am ready to head north. It looks like we have 6 victim..oops, tiers; so why don't we plan on doing 2 patterns each. That's 5 sets of 2 each, and call it a swap. I will get back to you when I gat back in a week.

    Fish On!!!

     

    Frank aka Student4evr

     

    If we can close this out early, I can host other swaps. which I would like to do.

    Thanks

     

    Frank :D

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    HoosierFlyTyer:

    .Welcome aboard. And welcome to the forum. Just to be sure, what we are looking for, are patterns using show shoe rabbit hare from the feet. I'm not familiar with a pea bunny. (I'm no authority but I thought I'd ask.) Also, I think we will end up tying 2 patterns each. That will make the postage worthwhile.

    If you have any questions feel free.

     

    Desertrout:

    Glad to have you in. Don't forget to rub 'em just before you shave em.

     

     

    Frank

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    This is a pattern I developed when I lived in Valdez Alaska. They have a really great run of Silver(Coho) salmon in August. We fished in the salt with a lot of standard patterns and got started using rabbit strips.

    After a while, it just evolved from standard strips, to patterns with straight and crosscut strips, then I added reverse-palmered crosscut strips.

     

    One of the first times I fished this particular pattern, I hooked the fish you see me holding. It weighed 18.18 pounds. I know this because I had it weighed on a certified scale and it took first prize in the Silver Derby that year. It was worth $15,000. When a friend and charter skipper asked what I caught it on, I described it as a "kind of reverse, punk, bunny, egg sucking leach". Her reply was "sounds like a lawyer to me". Hence, the name. (My apologies to all you in the legal profession.)

     

     

    Here is the Lawyer:

    Hook: Mustad C71S- Circle hook

    Weight: .040 lead wire

    Thread: Black and orange 3/0 Uni thread

    Tail: orange Krystal flash

    Tail and wing: straight cut purple rabbit strip

    ody: reverse-palmered black crosscut rabbit strip

    Eyes: Spirit River real eyes 3/16"

    Head: Medium chenille "shrimp"

    Wing Flash: orange Krystal flash

     

     

     

     

    Step 1:

     

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    Attach the first thread at he end of the hook and tie in a bit of krystal flashas shown . Fold it back over and tie it in.

     

    Step 2:

     

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    Put a touch of crazy glue on the top at the back and tie in the straight cut strip. I measure about a hook length for the tail. Fold it back and bring the thread just in front of the strip.

     

    Step 3:

     

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    Attach second thread and wrap a foundation to the back. Bring it forward and attach the lead wire. Cover the lead and bring the thread forward to leave a couple of hook eyes gap.

     

    Step 4:

     

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    Tie in a set of eyes using both the figure-eight wrap and circle the bottom of the eyes to get it really tight. Bring the thread back behind the eyes.

     

    Step 5:

     

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    To start trim the crosscut strip at an angle and trim any hair off the top of the corner. This will help anchoring the strip down.

     

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    Tie in the cross-cut on the underside of the hook. You can see that I have coated the hook from the tie in point all the way to the back with crazy glue. This really adds to the life of the fly.

     

    Step 6:

     

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    Wrap the strip back laying the base against itself like you would if you were going the other way. As you are wrapping be careful to keep the hair out of the glue and pulled toward the front of the fly. When you get to the back tie off the strip with the first thread, trim off the strip, add some more wraps and then I use my fingers to put in at least a couple of half hitches. You have to go over everything on the front of the fly so it helps to keep the bobbin in front short. Trim the thread and use head cement to secure the wraps.

     

    Step 7:

     

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    Back at the front of the fly; I use a keeper, a trimmed pencil eraser, to hold back the cross-cut. Tie in the chenille coat the eyes with crazy glue and wrap a nice head and trim it.

    (I keep trying to get a good technique for getting nice round full heads but I haven't quite found it yet. So if any of you have suggestions I'd love to hear them.)

     

    Step 8:

     

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    Remove the keeper and part the hair across the back of the body. You want about the same volume on both sides. Then bring the straight-cut up as a wing and secure just behind the head and trim it off. Just take a couple of wraps at this point you will add more before your done.

     

    Step 9:

     

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    Lastly, tie in some krystal flash just like you did on the tail. Tie it in with it overhanging the front of the fly and them bring it back over the top. This gives it a clean finish. Whip finish it off. Cement the wraps and go fishing.

     

     

    The Lawyer

     

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    As I said, this fly was designed for salt water fishing where you wanted to get down to the fish. It was also designed to take a real beating. Without the liberal use of the crazy glue, it had a life expectancy of about 2 fish. With it, you might get ten. On a good day you could easily catch 25 fish, and a really good day you could double that. So you wanted to make them last.

    I released just about all the fish I took on a fly ( I was holding one of the exceptions) so I wanted a hook that wasn't going to get them deep so I switched to the circle hook. I may have missed s few but once you got them on that C71S they stayed put.

    I really liked the reverse cross-cut rabbit. As you strip it the profile of the fly really changed. It just pulses.

    I have done other versions of this pattern for use in fresh water and it was really fun to watch a salmon move across a stream to blast this thing when they wouldn't take anything else unless you hit them on the nose.

    The last year I was up there I did a version of this that was built on an extended leach frame. It used 2 hooks separated by about 3" of braided Kevlar, the really big Spirit River Dazzle eyes, sparkle chenille, and a ton of cross-cut rabbit. The fly was really stiff with all the crazy glue I used to stick the rabbit onto the Kevlar, but as the fish beat it up, it really started to get loose and the action went crazy. I was only able to fish it one day. About 5 hours actually, I landed 33 fish up to about 17 pounds and I literally had to ice my arm down afterward. I will post that one later.

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