fishingbobnelson

I am very sorry for the delay in getting the swap in the mail. I have been dealing with the return of my wife's Lymphoma. She was admitted to the hospital this morning for her Chemo.

Anyway thanks for a great swap I hope you have an amazing season on the water.

Tight Lines,

Bob

Tracking info by PM

Picked up jburge's Adams emergers at lunch today. I have all the flies and will sort and mail them as soon as I can. Wife has surgery tomorrow, so it will be a day or two before I get to the PO. Tight Lines and thanks to everyone who joined the swap. This is a great looking set of flies.

Psychoprince and Niveker's flies arrived Friday. I am picking up jburge's flies Monday and will do my best to get them in the mail as soon as possible.

I screwed up, I don't know where I got Monday April 3. Should have been Monday April 8th. I cut and pasted from last years and forgot to change the date.

toco sauce covered flies arrived from SC today.

Got some nice Muddler's from Heff2, One week left.

21 hours ago, Heff2 said:

Is this for the opener Swap?  I'm starting to think I swapped my swaps 

NO, I posted on the wrong thread.

cphubert's dandy streamers have arrived. 9 days left till the due date

20 hours ago, Trouttramp said:

I think you got on  wrong thread Bob.😊

Sorry

cphubert's dandy streamers have arrived. 10 days left till the due date

Now you are just showing off! 😁🤣

Really some beautiful flies, great job.

I'll take the Zug Bug. The Zug Bug was the first fly I tied for my first swap on the Forum. I don't think I have tied more that a half dozen since. Hope these are better than the first ones.

I will wait to hear if his family will finish or just return flies to tyers. Mine were going out today, but I will hold on to them for now. 

Tight Lines forever Kim

Got a bunch of flies from flytire today, can't wait to get these wet.

Once upon a time this site was sponsored by J. Stockard. I don't know why that ended. Since the web provider was changed a lot of features that would attract new tyers are gone. Probably the biggest loss was the fly pattern data base. Thousands of fly patterns, with recipes that you could scan by member. Also gone are the Forums for posting trout flies, salmon steelhead flies, which would them be added to the data base. Being able to go to back pages is now impossible if there are more than 5. You used to be able to see who was online at the bottom of the page. You could look them up and see what, if anything, they were posting.  I know the original administrators of this site have lost interest, which is why they changed to a cheaper provide which has not done us any favors.

I so miss the days 10 to 15 years ago, when there were several new swaps every week. In those days most swaps would fill the same day they were posted. I just love swapping flies, but postage costs keep going up, they priced our international swappers out of the Forum completely. We used to have so many Canadian members whose flies I miss.

Tight Lines my friends

Fishin' Bob 🎣😎

Hi swappers, 

While the site was down, I got four sets of great flies. Woodenlegs, Fruitrollup, Bill J and Rabbit Hole flies have all arrived.  

Thanks for joining, looking like a great set of files is building.

Tight Lines to all,

Bob 🎣😎

Had to cancel this year, maybe next time.

First set arrived today.  Some spectacular parachutes from Trout Tramp.

OK that makes a full swap.  Thanks to everyone for joining.

OK guys who's got last?

Thanks to everyone for the sign-ups.  Glad to see some guys I have not had it a swap before. Just three spots left. 🎣😎

This will be my 15th year of hosting this swap.  Over 2,000 flies have been tied mailed and sorted for these swaps.  It has been a privilege to host it.  Tight Lines to everyone who ever tyed for it.

Opening day of trout season, in many parts of the West, is the last Saturday in April. This year it is April 27th.

Tie 12 of any trout fly, any stage, any style, any size. Usual rules apply, stamped self-addressed envelope or funds to cover postage, toe tags, mail before due date.

Open to first 12 with, "I'm in". International swappers welcome with PayPal.

Due date Monday April 8th . That way I can get them back to you for your own opener. Over the last 14 years we have had a selection of flies to fit just about any fly-fishing situation.

1 - Woodenlegs - Received 

2 - Psychoprince - Received 

3 - troutguy - Received

4 - Bill J - Received

5 - flytire - Received

6 - Rabbit Hole - Received

7 - jburge -  Received

8 - Fruitrollup - Received

9 - Heff2 - Received

10 - Trouttramp - Received

11 - cphubert - Received

12 - niveker - Received 

SM - Fishin' Bob

So what's the plan?  How many do we tie?  Do we wait to see if any more join?

I quit 30 years ago yesterday

I will play, pattern: the famous TBD.🎣😎